The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, August 28, at 3:25 p.m. (yes, that’s correct), in the garden at the shul to dig into a juicy spy novel, Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon. Meet Nancy Wake, in Paris working for a newspaper when she gets swept into WWII. The novel follows Nancy’s transformation from journalist to one of the most powerful leaders of the French Resistance, known for her wit, red lipstick, and [...]
Facing budget cuts and swindling enrollment, Brandeis University said it would place its Yiddish program “on hiatus” after next year — a move that would effectively eliminate the role of Ellen Kellman, the university’s sole Yiddish professor for nearly three decades. But the decision sparked an outcry. Within days, current www.ctigreenport.com and former students mobilized, firing off emails to the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Jeffrey Shoulson. The response was overwhelming — and effective. Moved [...]
When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the city’s southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak to just 20 minutes. For some, the new route increased access to a burgeoning Thursday night tradition — sitting down for steaming bowls of cholent, the slow-cooked Ashkenazi Shabbat stew. “For me, having a bowl of cholent on Thursday night adds a little bit of [...]
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s antisemitism envoy, resigned three months early, citing burnout from “waking up every day to a fight,” and frustration over how hard it was for her “to get people to speak up” since taking the role after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Jews were the most targeted group for hate crimes in Canada in 2024, with 920 incidents reported — more than any other religious, racial, or identity [...]
Nathan Silver, an architect whose 1967 book, Lost New York, offered a history lesson about the many buildings that were demolished before the city passed a landmarks preservation law that might have saved them, died on May 19 in London. He was 99. Mr. Silver’s book was a photographic guide to what had vanished over many decades. “While cities must adapt if they are to remain responsive to the needs and wishes of their inhabitants, [...]
Rosalind Fox Solomon, a photographer whose black-and-white portraits shot in the American South, Israel and diverse spots around the globe earned her the admiration of critics and a place in the world’s most prestigious museums, died on June 23 in Manhattan. She was 95. Ms. Fox Solomon came to realize that “something is different about me when I’m taking pictures,” she said. “I connect with something in myself that’s different than when I’m in social [...]
Daniel Abraham, an entrepreneur who turned a tiny family business into a giant that dominated the weight-loss industry with popular brands like Slim-Fast and Dexatrim, died on June 29 in Manhattan. He was 100. Mr. Abraham built his fortune on a pharmaceutical company that his father, a dentist, bought for $5,000 in 1947 after spotting it in an advertisement in the trade publication Drug Store News. He expanded the company into an empire that included [...]
In a long career as a psychoanalyst, Anna Ornstein, who was deported to Auschwitz when she was 17 and experienced unspeakable horror in her youth, embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy — a belief that all people, even those who seem the most vile, contain a spark of humanity. Dr. Ornstein died on July 2 at her home in Brookline, MA. She was 98. She and her husband, also a Holocaust survivor, emigrated [...]
Jack Kleinsinger, a lawyer by day who in his evening hours indulged his passion for music by creating and running Highlights in Jazz, one of New York’s longest-running concert series, for which he arranged and hosted more than 300 shows over a 50-year run. Mr. Kleinsinger died on June 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. He once said he never intended to leave a legacy. He just wanted to hear good jazz, [...]
Mortimer Matz, a New York public relations impresario who was credited with introducing the raincoat as an essential fashion accessory so that recently arrested defendants could hide their handcuffs from photographers, and who co-founded a gluttonous annual hot dog eating contest to promote Nathans of Coney Island, died on June 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 100. Sometimes likened to an upscale version of the unsavory press agent Sidney Falco in the 1957 [...]
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