After 20 years of leading the Whitney Museum of American Art — and overseeing its move from Madison Avenue to the meatpacking district — Adam D. Weinberg is stepping down this fall as director. In an unusual joint announcement by the Whitney’s board, the museum also said it had already selected Weinberg’s successors: Scott Rothkopf, 46, the current senior deputy director and chief curator, who will become director on Nov. 1. Rothkopf told The New [...]
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented the 24th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to comedian, actor writer, producer and musician Adam Sandler at a gala event on March 19. The prize honors one of the world’s greatest humorists. “Adam has created characters that have made us laugh, cry, and cry from laughing,” said Deborah F. Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center. “He has entertained audiences for more than three decades [...]
Shul member Ellen Wiederlight was featured with Jill Schroeder in an article in the March 16 issue of the Suffolk Times. The article pointed out that Jill Schroeder, a personal trainer, was preparing to run a half-marathon and raise $5,000 for lung cancer research, which her client, Ellen Wiederlight, has been battling for eight years. In addition to training with Jill Schroeder twice a week, Ellen Wiederlight will participate in an experimental antibody medical trial [...]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced plans to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Brooklyn native, with the unveiling this spring of a permanent carving of the justice’s likeness in the New York State Capitol. Ginsberg’s portrait along the Great Western Staircase will be only the seventh woman depicted in the staircase gallery.
Avi Mayer, a pro-Israel activist and communications professional has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. Mayer, 38, will succeed the current editor of the 90-year-old English language newspaper in mid-April, after Passover. He most recently served as managing director of global communications and public affairs for the American Jewish Committee, and previously served as the spokesperson for the Jewish Agency for Israel. He also served in the spokesperson’s unit of the Israel [...]
The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States in 2022 was the highest since the Anti-Defamation League began keeping track in 1979, the group announced. The A.D.L. report documented 3,697 incidents last year, a 36% rise from 2021. A majority were characterized as harassment, including online, but the tally also included 111 assaults and more than 1,200 occasions of vandalism.
A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for $44.9 million. “Murnau mit Kirche II” (Murnau with Church II) set a record price for the Russian artist in a sale at Sotheby’s in London. Completed in 1910, the brightly colored landscape of a Bavarian village foreshadows the bold abstract imagery of Kandinsky’s later work. The Van Abbemuseum in [...]
If you decide to make a Seder at home, you need to search no further than the shul’s Gift Shop for the accouterments you’ll need to make a beautiful Seder plate to grace your Seder table. Pictured are two Seder plates, one with a matching serving platter. And for fun, the Gift Shop recommends the package that offers an apron, an oven mitt, and a pot holder — in a matza pattern. Always good for [...]
It was only the second session of the Shabbat Kids’ Service, but Ann Hurwitz, coordinator of the program, issued a glowing report to The Shofar. “The children seemed to enjoy being in the synagogue on Shabbat. In fact, they clearly wanted to remain in the sanctuary much longer than I and Dawn Teyuca, the children’s teacher, had expected. “They are responsive to each other and to whatever plans Dawn makes. Currently, they are learning Moses’s [...]
Members and friends of our shul can expect to find yellow candles delivered to their mailboxes or doorsteps in early April. Once again, our shul is planning to participate in the Yellow Candle Project, a global program to commemorate the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Men’s Club president Tom Byrne, coordinator of the shul’s participation, met with his team for a packing party on March 26 to ready the candles for delivery. Included [...]
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