Although we have always lived with threats to our physical survival, today\’s sense of uncertainty is heightened by the awareness that military power cannot resolve all the problematic issues we face.
Today, Jewish and non-Jewish actresses face a different problem: \”They are often considered grandmothers by the time they are 40,\” Isaacson laments. \”They have a shorter career span than athletes.\”
For the past five years, 53-year-old Israeli native Yorum Gutman has overseen the annual Israel Independence Day Festival, one of the city\’s biggest cultural events.
While Orange County may not have the geographically cohesive nature of a mature Jewish community in the Northeast or Midwest — or even in Los Angeles or San Francisco — demographers describe it as typical of the new Jewish communities of the West.
A Swedish art critic once coined a term for his style: \”psychological realism.\” As far as Aron knows, \”I\’m the only psychological realist out there,\” he says with a laugh. With his art, Aron always intends to \”capture their character other than what they\’re doing.\”
What is remarkable about \”Witness: Voices From the Holocaust\” is the timing. The widely acclaimed documentary consists solely of the video testimony of 19 survivors recorded in the late 1970s.
Why, I wondered, take this seriously? Holocaust deniers reminded me of flat-earth theorists. The idea was preposterous.
David Lisker, a ninth-grader at Laguna Hills High School, is one of only 35 young musicians in the world accepted into the Perlman Music Program for this summer. Based in East Hampton, N.Y., the six-week program is for gifted pre-college students.
Christoph Meili\’s defining act occurred in January 1997 when, as a security guard at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, he discovered and rescued ledgers, about to be shredded, relating to the seizure of accounts and assets belonging to Holocaust victims and other European Jews.
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