Decades after Sigmund Freud probed unconscious human drives in his case histories, his grandson, Lucian, appeared to do the same on canvas. The 110 works in his retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art reveal his subjects in unflinching, microscopic detail — enough to make grandpa blush.
It\’s a balmy night as we join those filing into the basement social hall of the venerable Libertad Synagogue in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires. It resembles any Friday night service crowd anywhere in the United States, except that it\’s standing-room only. An elderly man sings Yiddish songs in a still-strong tenor followed by a young duo on saxophone and clarinet playing selections from \”Fiddler on the Roof.\”
The question is whether our overt war against Al Qaeda should be extended to Iraq.
A war will also take hundreds of billions of dollars from America\’s own people — from health care for our seniors, schools for our children, healing for the earth. An attack on Iraq will increase the unaccountable power of the oil companies and regimes that have provided money to both the Al Qaeda terrorists and the Bush administration, that have corrupted American politics and robbed American stockholders, that befoul the seas and scorch the earth.
As the umbrella organization for advocacy on behalf of Jews in the FSU, NCSJ is uniquely positioned to focus communities and governments on the civil and political needs of more than 1 million Jews.
When you\’re single, traveling to tropical islands isn\’t always what it\’s cracked up to be. But, I figure, if I don\’t meet the love of my life on this trip, at least I\’ll have a large pool of potential companions to go duty-free shopping with in the Bahamas.
Our Torah study was enriched by a day in Tel Aviv where we visited some of the projects supported by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles\’ Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership, including the Shevach Mofet School, a high school in which the majority of the students are immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
It may seem an auspicious time to bring Israeli artists over to America, as Israel has been in a virtual state of war since the beginning of the second intifada, and America is on the brink of war as well; but in a way, the timing could not have been better to discover what role museums play amid chaos.
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