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The second installment of the Tanner Lecture Series on Human Values was erudite and fast-paced, touching on topics from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to Abraham Lincoln’s possible sexual orientations.
It's quiet at Armageddon, these days, with only the wind racing like invisible war chariots across its grassy plains. But lately, the northern Israeli site - also known as Tel Meggido - designated in the New Testament as the field of the final battle has become a popular tourist destination. Christians...
Dassin made another seven movies, including Survival 1967, a documentary on the Arab-Israeli war. He did a flaccid adaptation off a Marguerite Duras novel, 10:30 P.M. Summer, and returned to the U.S. for Up Tight! (written by its costar, Ruby Dee). His last film was the preposterous Circle...
In 1999 Barenboim started the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth ensemble that draws together Israeli and Arab musicians, many from disputed territories. Its first concert that year was in Weimar, Germany, in the shadow of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Concerts followed each summer across Europe and North America until...
Balance is essential to the Divan orchestra and to Barenboim himself. Music is at its most satisfying when an expression meets its counterpoint. Barenboim says the 2003 death from cancer of Palestinian intellectual Edward Said--Barenboim's friend and co-leader of the orchestra--was "catastrophic" for an orchestra based...