Sid Krofft, who with his brother Marty made zany children’s programming, gaining a following among both the young and adult members of the counterculture, died on April 10 in Los Angeles. He was 96. According to The New York Times, Mr. Krofft was “an eccentric visionary, a kids’ show P.T. Barnum who created improbable programming with a combination of creativity and chutzpah.” What tied the shows together was a madcap feel of fantastical creatures, [...]
Mark Mobius, a money manager who made billions as one of the first investors focused on finding financial opportunities in emerging markets, died on April 15 in Singapore. He was 89. In 1987, Mr. Mobius joined the investment banking firm Franklin Templeton, where he soon started one of the first investment funds anywhere dedicated to emerging markets — countries in Asia Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Gaining a reputation as the brilliant, [...]
Adriano Goldschmied, the Italian businessman known as “the godfather of denim” for his role in developing versions of the world’s most popular fabric, died on April 5 in Castelfranco Veneto, a town near his home in Asolo, Italy. He was 82. On any given day, marketers say, nearly half the world’s population is wearing jeans. Last year, more than $98 billion worth of jeans were sold worldwide, and if you wear jeans, you own [...]
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, is a leading Democratic contender for an open US. House seat, representing part of New York City.
Eli Savit, a progressive county prosecutor, won the Michigan Democratic Party’s nomination for attorney general at a recent convention.
Jewish Cemetery Preserved by Christians and Jews Newport, Rhode Island, had once been home to a thriving Colonial Jewish community — also the home of Touro Synagogue, the nation’s oldest surviving Jewish house of worship. But after the Revolutionary War and the city’s economic decline, that community largely faded. Yet the cemetery and the synagogue building remained. The Jewish burial ground dated to 1677. In 1822, Abraham Touro left money for the upkeep of [...]
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, Lynne Olson The true story of how an intrepid band of Frenchwomen resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s all-female concentration camp. They risked death for any infraction, but that did not stop them from defying the SS at every turn. A Fool’s Kabbalah, Steve Stern In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world’s leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen [...]
The Tikkun Olam Initiative is celebrating its 5th anniversary. We are dedicated to the concept to heal the world by creating and nurturing relationships with not-for-profits that improve the lives of individuals and families in Southold Town and its environs. Over the years, we have supported CAST by collecting school supplies each August, Cans For CAST during the High Holidays, toys in December, and donating bilingual books to preschool graduates of the Parent-Child+ [...]
The shopping and chopping, the slicing and dicing were done. The table was set and re-set three times to accommodate last-minute guests. When everyone was seated, the president welcomed everyone to our shul and turned over the evening’s observance of Passover to shul member Rabbi Suzan Lipson, who led the gathering through the story of the exodus from Egypt and the journey from slavery to freedom. We dined on traditional Seder foods, read the dramatic [...]
Dear members and friends, Spring weather at last. The calendar kept telling me it was spring, so why was I feeling so chilled, still dragging out the corduroys and sweaters every morning? And then, I looked away, only for a moment, and Shazam! Spring. More than any other season of the year, spring holds promise — the promise of renewal, rebirth and the certainty that goodness will follow even the most difficult of times. [...]
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