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...With access to his father's vast real estate fortune, Spitzer could easily launch a new foundation to fight for causes he believes in. "There is a whole range of possibilities, from educational institutions to housing to microfinance in the developing world," says Avi Schick, a lawyer and the former head of New York's economic-development agency. "He hasn't figured out precisely what he will do." (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...film cut to black at the end of the screening of Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi’s “Z32” on Sunday, a perplexed audience waited in quiet anticipation for the director to approach the Harvard Film Archive podium. The group primarily consisted of salt-and-pepper heads and a handful of students with previous ties to the documentary’s subject: the extensive moral strain on an Israeli soldier after his involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the film did not suggest the outrage one would expect; it instead refused to convey...
After six and a half years at Harvard, Kessel, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a former New York and Boston restaurateur, left HUDS and joined private food provider AVI Food Systems as Executive Chef and Operations Director for Wellesley College. Kessel, who played an integral role in crafting residential menus and working on the Food Literacy Program, said a former HUDS employee had been recruiting him to work at AVI for the past three years...
...Wellesley, Kessel will be in charge of all culinary operations including running Wellesley’s five uniquely-themed dining halls, according to Dawn Perry, AVI Food Systems’ vice president for marketing...
Like many living in Israel and the Palestinian Territories today, Avi Mograbi cannot recall a moment in his life without the presence of war or political strife. It comes as no surprise, then, that Mograbi, an Israeli filmmaker, deals with these elements in each of his highly stylized non-fiction films. Mograbi will visit the Harvard Film Archive on Sunday, Sep. 20 to give a lecture accompanying a screening of his most recent film, “Z32.” “Z32,” which is based on the confession of an Israeli soldier, describes...