The Zionist Organization of America has denounced two universities for inviting Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on their campuses. Citing at least half a dozen instances in which the anti-apartheid activist spoke out against Israel, ZOA president Morton Klein criticized Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law for hosting Tutu last week and the…
Max Ferguson is, without a doubt, a New York realist, choosing the city’s sights as his subjects for detailed depiction. An exhibit opens this week at the ACA Galleries that includes several of his recent paintings, including “Wonder Wheel” (2002) and “My Father at Coney Island (Skee Ball)” (2002). Ferguson is well-known for his works…
ST. PAUL — The ethics committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives met this week to hear the case of a Republican colleague under fire for repeatedly suggesting that homosexuals were not persecuted by the Nazis. Part history lesson, part political circus, the hearing featured testimony from a wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivor and calls of “kangaroo…
If music is to reflect the world, believed composer Stefan Wolpe, it must grip the listener with its life-and-death struggle. As a result, Wolpe’s work is not music for light enjoyment. Far from being pretty or tuneful, his music is obstreperous and ferociously in-your-face argumentative, reflecting a bracing anger that has drawn the devotion of…
An estimated 3.3 million people have died during the last four and a half years as a result of the bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report issued Tuesday by a relief group. The International Rescue Committee report said that about 85% of the deaths were from hunger and…
The worst-kept secret of the comic book industry of the last six decades has been the genre’s Jewish subtext. Call it the superheroes’ secret Jewish identities, going back to a couple of ghetto kids in pre-World War II Cleveland who created Superman as an updated Golem. Now, the masks are off. Marvel Enterprises, the giant…
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Since getting the call to leave Long Island and fly to an army base somewhere in the Midwestern corn belt, where she’s in final combat training exercises before heading to Iraq, Specialist Joanna Cohen has had plenty of time to meet the other Jewish soldiers stationed with her — all three…
The walled city of Israeli artist Avner Moriah’s new illuminated Haggada looks less like a Middle Eastern capital and more like a medieval Tuscan town. The cover features Jerusalem’s Old City, hovering in space against a black background. Surrounding the cluster of towers and red-roofed houses is a sand-colored wall, delineating a graceful ark as…
The war in Iraq has ended, and the Kurds in the country’s north emerge as one of the war’s great victors, liberating themselves from Saddam Hussein’s oppressive rule and declaring an independent state. To the world’s surprise, it turns out that one of the Kurds’ top leaders is actually Jewish and that, as a result,…
On November 27, 1937, Broadway patrons were serenaded with “Sing Me a Song of Social Significance,” the hit song from the labor movement-inspired musical “Pins and Needles.” Although no major New York press critics attended the opening — they would show up in dribs and drabs over the next three months — “Pins and Needles”…
This week, the critical, expertly lined eyes of the fashion elite will be trained on Lauren Weisberger. It’s not because Weisberger is tall, blond and happens to look great in a pair of slim-fitting Seven jeans. She has found fame not with her model-good looks, but by taking a page from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola…
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