7 Days in The Arts
Keren Engelberg
September 22, 2005
Easiest mitzvah opportunity of the week award goes to \”One Night Only: A Concert for Autism Speaks\” tonight at the Kodak.
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September 22, 2005
Spectator – Lessing’s Shots of Liberty
Gaby Friedman
September 22, 2005
Erich Lessing received his first camera when he exited the synagogue from his bar mitzvah in Vienna in 1936.
\”There was no idea of taking up photography as a profession,\” said Lessing, 82, from his house in Austria. \”In a good Jewish family in Vienna you would only be a lawyer or a doctor.\”
The Darfur Genocide Is Still on
James D. Besser
September 22, 2005
Jews aren\’t among those being killed, raped and displaced in the Darfur region of Sudan, but the situation there is nonetheless a Jewish disaster.
The slogan, \”never again,\” the redeeming lesson of the Holocaust, is turning into a farce in the African nation, as world leaders continue to find a dazzling array of excuses for inaction, including the obvious one: \”It\’s a complicated situation,\” as cases of genocide always are.
Never Been Mugged
Helen Schary Motro
September 22, 2005
In the door pocket of my car I have one road atlas of Israel, one map of the streets of Tel Aviv, one map of the Galilee and, at last count, no fewer than five of Jerusalem. I am always apprehensive of taking the wrong road, and winding up where I might be perceived as an unwelcome intruder.
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