In a new ranking from the Anti-Defamation League, only two U.S. universities — Brandeis and Elon — have earned a top grade of “A” for being “Jew-friendly.” With the sole exception of Dartmouth, all Ivy League schools earned al “D” or a failing “F” grade. Ten Jewish students have filed a lawsuit against Cooper Union for allegedly failing to protect them and their classmates from antisemitism. The complaint stems from an Oct. 25 incident [...]
More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world. With antisemitism on the rise following the devastating Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the New York-based Claims Conference, which has organized the Speakers’ Bureau, hopes that firsthand accounts of the cruelties endured during the Holocaust will help counter disinformation and denial. AP Photo
Rabbi Levi Raskin, director of the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition, playfully adds flat discs of dough to the oven to cook into matzah, as prepared by first graders from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, during a “Model Matzah Factory” field trip to the center in Rockville, Md., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. To be kosher for the Passover holiday, the dough has to be prepared and cooked in [...]
The number of antisemitic incidents more than doubled in 2023, surging after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit, which pointed out that more than half of last year’s incidents took place in the last three months of the year. The report, published in early April, tabulated 8,873 incidents in 2023, 5,204 of them occurring after Oct. 7. By contrast, the League tallied 3,697 in 2022. Incidents [...]
After 64 years in broadcasting, John Sterling, the Yankees’ primary play-by-play announcer, has announced his retirement. Sterling is 85. “There is no shortage of adjectives to describe John and what he means to this organization and our millions of fans around the world,” the team said in the release, adding that he was a “Goliath of the sports broadcasting world.” Yankees fans will remember John Sterling’s now-famous refrain coming off the bat of a home-run [...]
Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline as his muse for work that borders abstraction and representation, died on March 24 in Manhattan. He was 88. Beginning in the 1970s, Mr. Moskowitz began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three buildings appear over and again through the decades, ink black on blue, lavender, orange, yellow or white; in white on black; [...]
Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier who restored violins belonging to Jews during the Holocaust so musicians around the world could play them as tributes to those silenced in Nazi death camps, died on March 4 in Tel Aviv. He was 84. Mr. Weinstein was the founder of Violins of Hope, an organization that provides violins he restored to orchestras for concerts and educational programs commemorating the Holocaust. The instruments have been played in dozens of [...]
Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on March 24 at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 92. Professor Perloff, who spend the latter part of her career at Stanford University, made her name as a forceful advocate for experimental poetry, reaching back to early 20th-century writers like [...]
Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra, known for turning curving walls of rusting steel and other malleable materials into large-scale outdoor artworks installed across the world, died on March 26 at his home on Long Island. He was 85. Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his structures of arcs, spirals and ellipses. His works have been installed in landscapes and included in the collections of museums, from [...]
Dr. David Egilman, a physician and expert witness who, over a 35-year span, gave testimony in some 600 trials involving corporate malfeasance, resulting in billions of dollars in awards for victims and their survivors, died on April 2, at his home in Foxborough, MA. He was 71. A dogged researcher, he dug up incriminating evidence showing that, in many cases, drug companies knew the risks involved with putting a new medication on the market, but [...]
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