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Newsdesk August 22, 2003
Complex’s Murals To Stay Historic preservationists scored a victory last week when shareholders of the Seward Park housing complex voted 376 to 202 to maintain the murals that grace the buildings’ lobbies. The murals, painted in 1959 by well-known artist Hugo Gellert, were at risk of being covered up in a redesign of the lobbies….
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Campaign Launched To Help Liberians
The American Jewish World Service, a nonprofit group providing support to developing countries, is hoping that the media spotlight on Liberia will help it launch a successful emergency campaign to assist the war- and poverty-stricken West African country. “As Jews, we have a duty to respond to those emergency situations,” Ruth Messinger, president and executive…
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Christians Split Over Bush, Peace Process
A split is emerging among influential pro-Israel Evangelical Christians over the American-backed plan for Middle East peace, sparking debate over whether the issue could cut into President Bush’s support in 2004. On one side of the divide are Christian activists, including former Reagan administration official Gary Bauer, who accuse the White House of pressuring Israel…
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GIVING FORM TO THE PAST
Oded Halahmy has straddled three continents for the past 30 years, maintaining studios in Israel, London and New York. The Iraqi-Jewish sculptor blends his heritage with a minimalist style, as evidenced in the Yeshiva University Museum’s “Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York — Sculpture of Oded Halahmy, A Retrospective,” comprising roughly 46 works. “Employing symbols such as the…
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Labor’s First Loss in Haifa Produces New Battle Plan
HAIFA — To most observers, Israel’s municipal elections last June were memorable mainly because Jerusalem elected its first-ever ultra-Orthodox mayor. But to political insiders, the real revolution may have been here in the port city of Haifa, where the Labor Party lost control of City Hall for the first time. The new mayor, Yona Yahav,…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Music SummerNights: The Baum-Wessel-Harris Trio perform in the final segment of the Jewish Museum’s “SummerNights” series. The evening’s entertainment includes the simultaneous screening of “Schmoozing About Show Biz,” a 1998 A&E segment titled “Hollywoodism” and the BBC’s 1990 “Next Time, Dear God, Please Choose Someone Else: Jewish Humor, American Style.” The trio features jazz flutist…
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Century of Hatred: ‘Protocols’ Live To Poison Yet Another Generation
History’s most virulent antisemitic propaganda essay, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” was first published 100 years ago this week. Though the Protocols turned out to be both a notorious plagiarism and a shocking forgery, the essay would exercise a powerful impact upon the modern era, principally as a critical factor in generating the…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Lieberman Catch: The presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is tapping a top staffer of New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to head its operation in New York state. Basil Smikle, Clinton’s deputy state director, will be joining the Lieberman campaign in September, spokesman Jano Cabrera confirmed. The appointment should make for some interesting…
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COMMUNITY IN FOCUS
Photojournalist Marvin J. Wolf — who’s been honing his craft for nearly 40 years — trained an unobtrusive camera on the 200 families of Congregation Mishkon Tephilo, capturing the congregants of the seaside Los Angeles community of Venice as they observed Jewish rituals and rites. Some 30 digitally manipulated images from his series are on…
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DeLay: Tammany on the Potomac
Last May a few dozen members of the Texas House of Representatives fled the state to stymie a Republican redistricting plan, halting the process. Remember that? If so, you probably also know that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas, and his allies enlisted the FBI, the Federal Aviation Administration and even the new…
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‘One of the Nicer Guys’: Jazz Legend Riffs on Life
Myself Among Others: A Life in Music By George Wein with Nate Chinen Da Capo Press, 448 pages, $27.50. * * *| In the early 1960s, Newport Jazz Festival promoter George Wein tried to become Duke Ellington’s manager. Ellington rebuffed him with trademark grace: Wein, he said, was “one of the nicer guys,” and Ellington…
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