Two high-profile nomination battles have left the American Jewish Committee in a lonely position: out front on behalf of a Middle East scholar condemned by Democrats and Arab groups and on the sidelines in the fight against one of President Bush’s most controversial judicial nominees. Of the three so-called Jewish defense agencies, a list that…
Lectures and Discussions God Factor: Corey S. Powell, news editor at Discover magazine and author of “God in the Equation: How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era,” shows how recent scientific research supports the “God factor,” a cosmological constant in Einstein’s relativity equations. Makor, 35 W. 67th St.; Aug. 12, noon-1 p.m.;…
The historian Américo Castro disliked the term “Siglo del Oro”— the Golden Century — when applied to the period of artistic expression and transatlantic colonization that swept the Spanish Empire from 1492 to the dawn of the 17th century. He wondered: what is golden about those hundred years? Sure, the comedias of Lope de Vega,…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents “Marc Chagall,” a retrospective that brings together roughly 65 paintings and 88 works on paper by Chagall. The first comprehensive display of the artist’s oeuvre since his death in 1985, the exhibition includes many works never before seen in the United States. The retrospective, which draws on…
Michael Endelman’s parents couldn’t quite recall their wedding canopy; a cursory look at wedding photos illuminated a beige cloth adorned with “some kind of greenery” and daisies. Like most standard-issue chupahs, it was pretty — and unremarkable. But when Endelman, 27, marries later this month in Marin County, Calif., he’ll stand beneath an eye-popping quilt…
MADRID — At Madrid’s annual weeklong book fair this summer, a growing affection among literati for all things Jewish finally burst out of the gate. An entire day of programming was devoted to “the Jewish book,” participants were treated to an exhibit on the history of Madrid’s Jewish community and “Shalom” was the standard greeting…
JERUSALEM — A pair of Jewish settlers from Hebron, arrested on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist cell, remain behind bars this week following legal maneuvers that have pitted many hard-line settlers against Ariel Sharon’s government. Yitzhak Pass — father of Shalhevet Pass, the 10-month-old killed by a sniper’s bullet in Hebron on March 26,…
Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 By Mikhail Krutikov Stanford University Press, 248 pages, $55. * * *| Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish Edited by Mikhail Krutikov and Gennady Estraikh Legenda, 330 pages, $49.50. * * *| In a small ceremony held in 1901…
WASHINGTON — There was a moment during his appearance with President Bush on the White House lawn last Tuesday when Prime Minister Sharon seemed to reveal more than he intended of his inner state of mind right now. Working through his prepared remarks, Sharon briefly fumbled with pages that appeared to be stuck together. Bush…
‘Adam Abu-Diyab is breathing hard through his mouth as he wheels his adult-size tricycle up Me’ah She’arim’s main drag,” writes correspondent Mitchell Ginsburg in the July 14 Jerusalem Report. “His bike is ancient and his trailer is weighted with the tools of his trade. There’s a broom, a roller, a bucket of glue and a…
It’s nice to remember the houses floating on water. It’s nice to stand on the shore and sing a hymn of praise while the candles burn in the windows. It’s nice to dream the loaves rising in the ovens and the floors dusted with flour, the women with the beautiful hair falling like cities into…
