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...relatives, trying to get information on the whereabouts of my brother, whose home had been raided by Israeli troops the previous night. He was detained, and his wife was left at home with Israeli soldiers pointing their rifles at her head until late in the evening. When my sister-in-law finally called us after the soldiers left, she was frantic with worry. It wasn't until the next morning, Friday at 6 a.m., that we found out what had happened to him. The Israeli soldiers had held him all night, blindfolded and handcuffed in the cold, and interrogated...
...Case of the Mistaken Hazans” as a beautiful realization of “mishpacha,” the Yiddish word for family, in its largest sense. It’s a word for your mother’s father’s sister-in-law’s great-uncle’s cousin Saul, who looks just like you. Of course, the “wrong” Rabbi Hazan insisted I stay. I felt like Elijah, welcomed to the Seder during Passover. The guests at the already-full table looked at me in disbelief...
...Soon it emerged that the woman was Helga Testorf, a married housekeeper for Wyeth's sister Carolyn in Chadds Ford. Wyeth's wife Betsy claimed to have known nothing about the pictures. When she was asked what she thought was the motive behind them, she offered a melodramatic one-word reply: "Love." However they came to light, their "discovery" and the suggestion that they represented some secret love affair was news that got them on the cover of TIME and Newsweek and then a big exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
...positions. New York officials say the state's environment funding - where the zoo and aquarium money comes from - will be funneled into capital projects like bridges, on the grounds that institutions like zoos can tap private funding. But at the same time, donors to the Bronx Zoo and its sister institutions across the nation are getting squeezed by the economic crisis, leaving the zoos little to fall back on. "We thought they'd use a scalpel to cut, not an ax," says John Calvelli, director of external affairs at the Bronx Zoo. "Where exactly are we supposed...
...White Company. Quite naturally, the dynasty flourished. The eldest, Henriette, a painter in her own right, is married to Painter Hurd. Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes. Sister Ann, 48, turned to music, but married one of N.C.'s students, John McCoy, and stayed on in Chadds Ford. Brother Nathaniel, 52, "drew neat little pictures inside little squares," married a niece of Howard Pyle, and quite naturally became a creative engineer in research for Du Pont in nearby Wilmington...