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Shouldering the World’s Sorrows
In 1967, José Limón, one of a handful of choreographic geniuses of the 20th century, fervently immersed himself in creating his last great ballet. Nine months later, his final masterpiece, entitled “Psalm,” emerged from a gestation period of intense rehearsals. What fired his inspiration for “Psalm” was a novel about Jewish persecution, “The Last of…
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THEY’VE GOT THE BEAT
“Bringing in the Beat: An Evening of Jewish Women’s Music” offers up musical performances by Jewish women, including violinist Alicia Svigals of Mikveh, a founder and former member of the Klezmatics; Miraj, an a cappella trio with Rabbi Margot L. Stein, Rabbi Rayzel Raphael and Juliet Irene Spitzer; Shira Shazeer of the Boston-based Fish Street…
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Some Happy 55th: Pessimism, A Strike and Same-Old Terror
JERUSALEM — On the eve of the country’s 55th Independence Day, most Israelis are in a somber and pessimistic mood, shackled by what they perceive as unbreakable military, political and economic chains. According to the newest polls, the public supports the American-sponsored “road map” to Israeli-Palestinian peace, as well as the recent appointment of Abu…
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‘The White Man’s Burden’
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country A World Power By Warren Zimmermann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 562 pages, $30. * * *| Warren Zimmermann has excellent timing. Taking to heart philosopher George Santayana’s observation that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the scholar and former diplomat has…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions For the Record: In honor of Israel Independence Day, Makor presents “Journalists Under Fire: Challenges in Covering Israel and the Conflict.” For this panel discussion, members of the press — Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt, Washington Post staff writer Bart Gellman and the New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman — discuss the…
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Legal Twist: Crown Heights Killer Asking To Get Away With Murder
It was a legal tactic breathtaking in its chutzpah. Some compared it to the old joke about the fellow who murders his parents, then asks for the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. But few doubted it might work. Through 12 years and two trials, Lemrick Nelson, the black youth arrested, tried…
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Tracing an Arc From Whitman to Glatshteyn
I Think of Our Lives: New and Selected Poems By Richard Fein Creative Arts Book Company, 115 pages, $13.95. * * *| I think of our lives — Walt — and they work something like this — At Castle Garden — where you heard Jenny Lind sing — and where my grandparents came through as…
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OUT OF IRAQ: A DOCUMENTARY
Screening some 176 films over seven days at 11 venues, the second Tribeca Film Festival arrives May 7 in downtown Manhattan. With an array of offerings as diverse as the city itself, the festival was started last May in response to the September 11 attacks by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as…
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Jews’ Role Murky As Rebel Banner Drops in Georgia
ATLANTA — Thanks to a last-second compromise reached by lawmakers last week, the state flag of Georgia is about to drop the notorious Confederate battle emblem for the first time in nearly 50 years.. The deal — widely seen as a rebuke of Republican Governor Sonny Perdue — came quickly, catching most observers by surprise….
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The First and Last Drops
A soft rain is falling outside my window. Possibly, it is the last, since this is the time of year when the rains in Israel stop and do not resume until the following autumn. This is why, in the Shemoneh Esreh or “Eighteen Benedictions” prayer recited three times daily, there is a difference of wording…
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Prolific Writer Awarded for Letters to the Editor
Stephen A. Silver knows how to get his name in print. He is the recipient of a media watch group’s Letter Writer of the Year Award because of the dozens of letters he published in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world on behalf of Israel. Silver, who lives in Concord, Calif., is one of…
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