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Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics
June 15, 2007
Special to the Sun
June 15, 2007
A lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government claims there is a double standard by which Muslim clerics are criticized for not condemning Islamist terrorism when “rabbis are...
Recruited To Die
June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo...
Helping Mexican Immigrants Find Dignity — and a Better Life
March 3, 2007
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,...
‘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
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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...