There is a fierce anger at the core of Ruth Linn\’s work, the anger of a woman who suddenly and irrefutably discovers that the story she has been told by her Israeli teachers, Israeli society and Israeli culture from childhood onward regarding the Holocaust is but a partial narrative.
\”I came to klezmer quite by accident,\” said virtuoso clarinetist David Krakauer.\n\nHe was a noted classical musician around 1987 when a chance encounter on a Manhattan bus changed the direction of his career.
Michael Berenbaum, a first-rate scholar and writer, who was founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has produced, in effect, a traveling museum, or in barely more than two score pages, a traveling museum exhibit.
Altogether, approximately 700 pro-Israel demonstrators from around the world gathered in the Dutch capital to bear witness and protest the travesty of justice taking place.
Limmud, which means learning in Hebrew, is a name that for many in the Jewish and non-Jewish educational world has become synonymous with an inclusive, bottom-up approach to education.
Amit Duvshani, who is completing his master\’s degree in molecular biology at the University of Tel Aviv, e-mailed Andrew Wilkie, a geneticist at Oxford University, asking to work in Wilkie\’s lab to continue his research into HIV.\n\nWilkie\’s e-mailed response has since seen the world via the Internet. He rejected Duvshani\’s request on the grounds that the young man served in the \”oppressive\” Israeli army, as is compulsory for all Jewish Israeli men.
Aviva Slesin\’s affecting but unsentimental documentary focuses on the psychological aftermath of hiding, such as the sense of abandonment child survivors carried into adulthood and the difficulty rebonding with parents.
Raised Conservative and a member of a Reform temple in Seattle, Howard Schultz said it was his first trip to Israel. \”I was blown away. I had a sensory overload,\” he told me for a story in The Jerusalem Post.
CBS feared that the early Hitler would be \”humanized\” into a sympathetic figure as an abused child and misunderstood artist or as a German Rocky who overcame tremendous odds, and even that the film might trigger pogrom-like outbursts.
Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born novelist who writes about the clash of Arab and Jewish cultures, knows what it\’s like to be a part of a beleaguered minority.
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