Theo Richmond, a British documentary filmmaker who depended on words rather than images to create what he called “the most worthwhile thing I’ve ever done” — an acclaimed book, Konin: A Quest, that captured the quotidian life and precipitous death of the Jewish population of his parents’ hometown in Poland after the Nazi invasion — died on August 25 in London. He was 93. Over the course of seven years, Mr. Richmond conducted some 400 [...]
Grace Glueck, a journalist who broke new ground by making the art world a distinct beat at The New York Times, and who then helped bring an important sex-discrimination lawsuit against the paper, her employer of more than 60 years, died on Oct. 8 at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was 96. In more than 3,000 articles for The Times, Ms. Glueck approached art as a reporter more than as [...]
Robert Kalfin, the driving force behind the Chelsea Theater Center, which for two decades beginning in 1965 presented adventurous plays not always to the liking of general theatergoing audiences, died on Sept. 20 at a hospice center in Quogue, NY. He was 89. Mr. Kalfin thought the commercial theaters of the day were limited and unimaginative, and he strove to broaden the theatrical landscape. His mission statement: “We will do whatever nobody else is doing, [...]
Leonard Kriegel, an American memoirist and essayist whose work blazed with rage at the loss of the use of his legs to polio, died on Sept. 25 in Manhattan. He was 89. An academic and literary critic who taught for many years at the City College of New York, Mr. Kriegel was known for scholarly and popular writings that examined large historical phenomena (the struggles of the labor movement, the social construction of masculinity, the [...]
Sally A. Kornbluth, a cell biologist whose eight-year tenure as Duke University’s provost has earner her a reputation as a brilliant administrator, as creative problem-solver, and a leading advocate of academic excellence, has been selected as MIT’s 18th president. She will assume the post o Jan. 1, 2023, succeeding L. Rafael Reif, who had announced his intention to step down after 10 years leading the institute. As Duke’s provost since 2014, Kornbluth has served as [...]
Our own Rabbi Gadi and shul member Irma Strimban make the “Jews in the News” column in this month’s Shofar. Prior to the Rosh Hashanah observances at our shul, Rabbi Gadi visited San Simeon by the Sound rehabilitation facility in Greenport and talked to the patients there about the holiday and the significance of the shofar, the ram’s horn that for many Jews is the most visible symbol of the Rosh Hashanah rituals. In ancient [...]
A short play by our own shul member Chuck Simon has been selected among hundreds of submissions for inclusion in the third annual Soop to Nuts “Short Play Festival,” a series of 10-minute plays, to be presented over two weekends by the Soop Theatre Company, from Nov. 4 through 19, at The 530 Studios, 530 5th Ave., Pelham, NY. Chuck Simon’s play, “A Very Important Roll,” will debut on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., [...]
The Shofar joins the shul membership in extending a wholehearted mazel tov to the Joshua Rakhman family — especially baby Ava Rakhman, whose Hebrew name, Chava, was bestowed by Rabbi Gadi at the Hoshana Rabba service in the sanctuary of our shul on Sunday, Oct. 16. The Rakhman family and friends filled the sanctuary for the occasion, which was attended by many shul members as well. Shul members will recognize Josh, who for the last [...]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig for significantly improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. Bernanke is a American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings [...]
Harrison Bader, centerfielder for the New York Yankees had a large part in the defeat the New York Yankees handed to the Cleveland Guardians in the American League Division Series. On August 2, 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals traded Bader and a player to be named later to the Yankees for pitcher Jordan Montgomery. On Sept. 20, Bader had his first New York Yankees hit, driving in a run. But then, in Game 1 of [...]
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