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A planned Jewish “empty seats” protest against Mahmoud Abbas fizzled at the Palestinian President’s New York speech Monday night. There were no pro-Israel protesters in sight and dozens of Jewish students turned up to hear Abbas offer a plea for peace in the Middle East at the Cooper Union in Manhattan. Ariel Stern, the president…
Jewish student groups are planning protests against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a speech in New York City this Monday night — including a push to create swaths of empty seats at the event. The students, who say that Abbas often sugarcoats his anti-Israel rhetoric when addressing English-speaking audiences, hope to reserve seats for the…
Like most big cities, New York is a constant explosion of visual information, a relentless parade of billboards, advertisements, restaurant signage, street-side menus, shop fronts and window displays. It’s little wonder, then, that most New Yorkers and frequent visitors have become inured to the persistent assault of graphic design. We see the restaurant signs and…
