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Moving and shaking: Dodgers, ICRF Women of Action gala and more

In front of thousands of baseball fans on a recent evening in Chavez Ravine, Uri Herscher, founding president of the Skirball Cultural Center, threw out a ceremonial pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers squared off against the Colorado Rockies, who ended up winning 6-1.

Moving and shaking: Outstanding American by Choice Award, YRF Darca and more

Uri Herscher, president and founder of the Skirball Cultural Center, received the Outstanding American By Choice award on April 5 at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C., from Leon Rodriguez, director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Alejandro N. Mayorkas, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Haters, meet Najia

“I wanted to become someone,” the young Afghani woman told me, matter-of-factly. “I wanted to grow.”

Uri Herscher’s and the Skirball Cultural Center: ‘Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude’

One day in early March 1954, Uri Herscher, just 12 at the time, ran away from his parents. His father, Joseph, a cabinetmaker, and mother, Lucy, a laundress, were having trouble making ends meet living in Israel. Together with Uri and his younger brother, Eli, they were meant to leave from Haifa the next morning to travel to the United States. There, the family would find a new home in San Jose, Calif., a thriving middle-class community with very few Jews, where Joseph’s sister had already set down roots.

A Big Opening

Museums, like movie studios, prefer to open big.\n\nThe high cost of museum management, from health care to advertising, has forced institutions to reach for blockbuster exhibits — Tutmania! — market them like summer movies, and pray for long lines and lasting buzz on opening day.\n\nThen there\’s Max Liebermann.\n\nSkirball Cultural Center founder and director Uri Herscher was in Jerusalem several years ago, visiting a friend\’s small, art-filled apartment. His eye caught an attractive painting, a Liebermann, his friend said, and Herscher responded, \”Who?\”\n\nVirtually unknown today, Max Liebermann was the most famous German painter of his time. He died at age 87 in 1935, just as Adolf Hitler rose to power. As he watched the Nazis march through the Brandenburg Gate celebrating the takeover of Hitler, Liebermann famously remarked, \”One cannot eat as much as one would like to vomit.\”

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