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...course of history, the passion and eloquence Seth brings to their story makes Two Lives fascinating - and maybe even worth its reported $2.5 million advance. Born in a northern Indian village, Shanti Seth went to Berlin in 1931 to study dentistry. There he stayed in the apartment of a Jewish widow whose daughter, Henny Caro, became one of Shanti's closest friends. Shanti moved to Edinburgh to continue his studies in 1937, as anti-Jewish laws were making life difficult for the Caros in Berlin. Henny escaped to London two years later, but her mother and sister died in concentration...
...Ever since Jackson Pollock and the first abstract expressionists began enlarging their canvases back in the late 1940s, American paintings have been getting bigger and bigger. To show the lengths?and heights?that artists are going to nowadays, Manhattan's Jewish Museum this week put on display 23 mural-size paintings ... The largest, Al Held's Greek Garden, is a breathtaking panorama of cabalistic circles, squares and triangles that measures 12 ft. [3.5 m] high?and 56 ft. [17 m] long. The museum's curator, Kynaston McShine, who selected the paintings, unpretentiously bills his exhibit as an 'airy, informal, summer...
...election fight loomed, and he believed that appointing a woman could win him an extra 1% or 2% of the vote. So when the discussion turned to a little-known Justice Department lawyer named William Rehnquist-a man Nixon had just met three months earlier ("Is he Jewish?" the President had asked shortly after meeting him, according to Dean's recollection; "he looks it")-Nixon had some reservations. "Maybe he can get a sex change," the President joked. But Ehrlichman's reasoning would eventually prevail: "If you want to salt away a guy that would be on the Court...
...leaving against our will, but we are not going out with heads bowed." TZION TZION-TAWIL, rabbi, after helping to lead a prayer service of settlers and soldiers in Netzarim, the last Jewish settlement to be evacuated in Gaza...
...although halal meals were requested for Muslim scouts attending the jamboree, no one seems to have ascertained whether the salami in the sandwiches contained pork; bacon was a staple on the breakfast menu. Omar ended up eating meal after meal of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, shared by a Jewish patrol leader who, suspecting it might be tough to keep kosher, had brought enough for others. And no Muslim chaplain was on site to lead Friday services, so Asad Shahid, 15, of Naugatuck, Conn., nervously guided his fellow scouts to a spot in the shade of a big oak tree...