Powerful Support For The Israeli Hostages Staged In Tel Aviv
Empty chairs at a Shabbat table outside Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art...one for each of the Israeli citizens held hostage in Gaza by Hamas.
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Congregation Tifereth Israel is a Historic Synagogue on the North Fork in Greenport. It is an egalitarian, inclusive, Conservative synagogue committed to strengthening Jewish values, learning and spiritual well-being as well as building a close, warm and supportive community for all who wish to join.It’s Not About Jews Or The Shul, But The Editor Loves This News…
Giant pandas from China could be arriving in the United States again soon. According to The New York Times, Beijing is planning to continue its panda diplomacy with Western countries, a statement from the Chinese Embassy to the United States said. The China Wildlife Conservation Association has reached agreement with the San Diego Zoo in California “on a new round of international giant panda conservation cooperation,” according to the statement. The agreement keeps alive a [...]
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Jewish actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach was cast as Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie. Grimm is one of Marvel’s Jewish characters, having had a bar mitzvah and Jewish wedding in the comics.
Huma Abedin
Huma Abedin, the former top aide to Hillary Clinton and the ex-wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner, revealed in a Valentine’s Day post on social media that she’s in a relationship with Alex Soros, the son of George Soros, the Democratic megadonor.
Deni Avdija
Deni Avdija, the Israeli forward who plays for the Washington Wizards, exploded for 43 points and 14 rebounds on February 14, in a game against the New Orleans Pelicans. He is the first player to record those numbers for the team in nearly a half-century. Alas, in spite of the great numbers Avdija put up, the Wizards lost the game 133-126.
Marc Jaffe
Marc Jaffe was at a New Year’s Eve party in Hollywood in 1967 when a screenwriter named William Peter Blatty began chatting him up. Mr. Blatty said he had tried and failed to sell an idea for a novel — about a young girl possessed by a demon and the tortured priest who tries to save her. But Mr. Jaffe, editorial director of Bantam Books, the paperback publishing house in New York City, thought the [...]
Naomi Feil
Naomi Feil was only 8 years old when she moved into what was then known as a home for the aged, where her parents worked. Living there until she left for college, she learned firsthand how to comfort and communicate with older adults. When she died on Dec. 24 at her home in Jasper, OR, at the age of 91, she had devoted her entire career to finding ways to comfort disoriented older people and [...]
Charles Fried
Charles Fried, a conservative legal scholar who as President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general argued against abortion rights and affirmative action before the Supreme Court — but who later rejected the conservative legal movement’s rightward march, calling the current high court “reactionary” — died on Jan. 23 at his home in Cambridge, MA. He was 88. In 2021, as the high court’s Republican-appointed supermajority looked likely to reverse Roe, Mr. Fried wrote in an opinion column [...]
Vera Klement
Vera Klement, a Holocaust survivor who was known for paintings that combined elements of Abstract Expressionism and figurative art, died on Oct. 20 in Evanston, IL. She was 93. “Abstract Expressionism suited me, I suppose, as far as a worldview: the notion of being at risk, on the edge, existential,” she told The Chicago Tribune. “And I think that has remained with me. It was the basis of my way of looking at art [...]
Alvin Moscow
Alvin Moscow, who wrote a best-selling account of the sinking of the ocean liner Andrea Doria in 1956, then collaborated on the memoirs of several public figures, including Richard M. Nixon soon after he lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy, died on Feb. 6 in North Las Vegas. He was 98. In all, 56 people died in the collision of the two ships. In Collision Course: The Andrea Doria and the Stockholm, [...]
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