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‘Show & Tel’ Dials the Right Artwork

Marc Ballon June 3, 2004

\”Show & Tel: Art of Connection,\” the Zimmer Children\’s Museum\’s exhibition of 179 telephones decorated and deconstructed by painters, sculptors, politicians, athletes and others, features an array of artworks ranging from the whimsical to the confrontational.

Grouped by such themes as sports and color schemes, the often funky and always surprising phones fill several rooms at the Zimmer. Taken together, they show that a little imagination can go a long way toward transforming a prosaic object into something compelling and original.

All the phones are up for sale. Proceeds will go to youTHink, a Zimmer program for students that uses art to discuss important social issues.

Rites Launch Israel Tolerance Museum

Tom Tugend May 6, 2004

Amid a gaggle of Israeli security guards, bustling volunteers and California Highway Patrol officers wired up to communicate with who knows whom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper runs around the first two of about 50 rows of plastic seats temporarily set up in Jerusalem\’s Cats Square.\n\n\”Bring me chairs over here,\” says Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as he tries to move some seats to make room for one more.\n\n\”[Israeli Defense Minister] Shaul Mofaz is not going to be a happy man,\” he says aloud to no one in particular. \”See this guy over here?\” he tells his helpers, pointing to a flimsy seat that doesn\’t look big enough to hold the name on the sign: \”Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,\” \”this guy doesn\’t move.\”

A Few Jews Focus on Props, Too

David Finnigan October 2, 2003

With a few notable exceptions, Jewish politicians, activists and community leaders are getting into the controversies over Propositions 53 and 54 late and lackadaisically, having focused most of their attention and fundraising efforts on the recall election.

Proposition 54, The Racial Privacy Initiative (RPI), backed by University of California regent Ward Connerly, bans the state from classifying people according to race, ethnicity, color, or national origin.

Intifada Gains Palestinians Nothing

Leslie Susser September 19, 2002

Israeli society has been bruised and brutalized by two years of Palestinian terror and violence, but as the intifada enters its third year, it has brought the Palestinians no political gain whatsoever.

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