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‘It Was Skin and Bones’: Soldiers Remember Auschwitz
January 17, 2007
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...
Marching For Freedom: Ex-slave Simon Deng Plans New Walk to Spotlight Sudan’s Plight
August 31, 2006
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...
Rising to the Occasion
May 17, 2006
“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, my community, and...
Jewish Community Helps Victim of Russian Hostage Crisis Recover
November 14, 2005
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 ponytail, she...
CD Re-release Explores Mixing of Latin Music and Jewish Music
August 24, 2005
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...
Almost By Accident, Jazz Pianist Helped Spark Musical Fusion Craze
August 24, 2005
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...
The Dating Game
May 11, 2005
CHECKOUT: A Smart Buyer’s Guide to Styles, Shops, Sales, and Services
THE DATING GAME
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...
Iraqi Politician’s Support for Israel Costs Him Dearly, But He Presses On
May 9, 2005
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 Rabbi Guides the Rehab
March 12, 2004
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...
Way Up South
April 2, 2001
Summer 2001
Caption: WATER MAINE BREAK Higgins Beach in
Scarborough offers a half mile
of uncrowded sand and surf.
The world is your oyster on the southern coast of Maine, where salty air, cozy B&Bs and all the shellfish you can pry...