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...year legal battle, an Austrian arbitration court ruled that the paintings, valued at $150 million, were the property of a California woman who had sued Austria for ownership, and four other heirs. The paintings had been confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 from Bloch-Bauer's wealthy, art-collecting Jewish family and then handed over to the Austrian government after the war. For years, Maria Altmann, 89, the niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer, has sought to reclaim them. In her will, Bloch-Bauer, who died in 1925, left the pictures to her husband but asked that they eventually be given...
...NIGHT, YOU WRITE ABOUT YOUR INTEREST IN JEWISH MYSTICISM AND KABBALAH, WHICH HAVE FOUND A NEW PLACE IN POP CULTURE. I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism...
...Cohen and Moskowitz, both members of the Orthodox Jewish community, where getting married earlier is more common, have encountered surprise of a somewhat different sort. Many of their friends from high school (both attended Jewish day schools) are already married, even though some have yet to enter their junior year of college...
...were never fully explained to her. After playing with the American Symphony Orchestra in 1969, Gutman was declined a visa to return to the United States the following year. She says she was told secretly that this restriction resulted from her support of two political dissidents and fellow Russian Jewish musicians, Misha Maisky and Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Gutman says she resisted the Soviet government’s insistence that she cut ties with her friends, and tells of a tense interview held with government authorities while she was pursuing her visa. “I said that if they think...
...Promised Land,” said he wants to see the issues of multicultural dialogue being discussed more often than one day a year. Student speakers spoke on behalf of the AAA, the Harvard South Asian Association, Native Americans at Harvard College, Progressive Jewish Alliance at Harvard, Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American, and the Black Students’ Association. “Normalcy is the real enemy,” Natasha S. Alford ’08 told the audience. “Let us fight it with all our might and in this way we will change the world...