By HEATHER ROBINSON
March 3, 2007
Joel Magallan
Former Brother Joel Magallan has headed the Association Tepeyac for 11 years.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is an icon of dignity,” says Joel Magallán, the head of the Asociación Tepeyac de New York, explaining the …
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By HEATHER ROBINSON
January 17, 2007
When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable.
Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of Europe are recounting their memories …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
August 31, 2006
It was “desperation” to raise awareness about the plight of black Africans in his native land of Sudan, Simon Deng says, that prompted the Harlem resident to walk the 300 miles from the United Nations to …
From The New York Daily News
by HEATHER ROBINSON
“When you rise to the occasion, there’s no ‘just getting by,’” says Thabiti Boone of his efforts to be a strong black male role model to inner city children. “My best is connected to my family, my future, …
From The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
November 14, 2005
Shifting from foot to foot in Kennedy Airport here, Anya Kadalaeva waited for the plane that would bring her father and sister.
In her jeans and lavender winter coat, her light brown hair pulled back in a …
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By HEATHER ROBINSON
August 24, 2005
In 1959, when Irving Fields was playing piano at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel in Boston, two couples approached him with competing requests.
“One couple requested, ‘I Love You Much Too Much,’ a nice Jewish song,” Fields recalled, while the other couple insisted, “We wanna …
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By HEATHER ROBINSON
August 24,2005
The CD of “Bagels and Bongos” features an interview with 90-year-old pianist Irving Fields, who still plays six nights a week at a Manhattan nightclub.
The liner notes describe Fields’ life story as one “of cultural alchemy as much as cultural preservation.” Indeed, Fields’ story …
From Time Out New York
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THE DATING GAME
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Photographs by Britt Carpenter
Ask the people who run dating services why their help is sorely needed, and they’ll tell you that most New Yorkers are just too darn busy to meet …
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By HEATHER ROBINSON
May 9, 2005
For daring to visit Israel, Mithal Al-Alusi has paid with more than his life: It cost him his two sons.
A Sunni Moslem who founded the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, or DPIN, Al-Alusi believes the new Iraq should defy the longstanding policies …
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
Friday, March 12, 2004
HOUSES OF WORSHIP
Faith helps recovery–and gets in the way of some funding.
LOS ANGELES–It’s Friday night, and Rabbi Mark Borovitz is ministering to his flock. A fatherly man with a bushy brown-and-gray beard, he raises his arms as he coaxes his …
