Holocaust survivors, a top Clinton administration official and a veteran congressman are warning that the Bush administration is undermining the fight to win compensation for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany. Stuart Eizenstat, the Clinton administration’s special envoy on Holocaust issues who struck global restitution deals totaling $10 billion, criticized the White House for seeking to…
When CNN military analyst Wesley Clark — a former general who is often mentioned as a potential Democratic presidential candidate — took a new job recently as chairman of the board of WaveCrest Laboratories, pundits pronounced him out of the political game. Not quite. The post just might help build Clark’s credentials among environmentalists. WaveCrest…
After a barrage of American criticism for its disruptive role in Iraq and the Middle East, and with a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell looming on the horizon, Syria has swiftly shifted gears in recent weeks, moving from calls to resist the American invasion of Iraq to sudden peace overtures to Israel. Syria’s…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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