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On each of the first three days of the coming week there will be a talk by guest speakers on Jewish topics in East Midwood and Park Slope: Brooklyn: Three Jewish talks this week - New York NY | Examiner.com
Three Israel talks in Brooklyn
Oct. 15th, 2012 01:53 pm
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Ambassador Oren's will be the first of three talks in the next thirty days in Brooklyn synagogues about Israel by knowledgable speakers.
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Many of the artists will be present at the opening and happy to talk about their work. Some of the art works are nudes, but parents who are not prudes will find the exhibit child friendly.
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"Compliance" NY premiere Friday at BAM
Jun. 27th, 2012 02:50 pm
Ann Dowd as the restaurant manager in "Compliance"
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Do the coolest brands really deserve their alleged socially responsible reputations? In her new book,Ethical Chic, award winning journalist, author, (friend, fellow shul member,) and Brooklynite Fran Hawthorne investigates six such companies to find out the answer to that and other questions, including:
--Do Starbucks baristas really talk to their customers? (And why did the company cheat the coffee farmers of Ethiopia?)
--Is Trader Joe’s really organic?
--Did Apple know about the conditions at its iPod factory in China?
--Why did Tom’s of Maine sell out to Colgate?
--How does Timberland explain killing all those cows?
--Should we hate American Apparel for its sleaze or applaud it for supporting immigrant rights?
To promote her new book Ms. Hawthorne will be giving two readings this month in Brooklyn:
Wednesday June 20, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, and
Thursday June 28, 2012 at 6:00 PM at Brooklyn Heights Public Library/Business and Career Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West, at Tillary Street
If you care whether the companies you patronize are socially responsible then you would probably also find Ms. Hawthorne's previous book The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism a useful and engaging read.
Ms. Hawthorne has been a writer or editor at Fortune, BusinessWeek, Institutional Investor,and other publications. She is the author of three books on health care and investing, including Inside the FDA and Pension Dumping.
This article first appeared on the now defunct examiner.com
My examiner.com article about the exhibit:
Art 101: BWAC's "Celebrate 20" Spring 2012 Art Show - New York NY | Examiner.com.
Also see the slideshow sneak preview with 40 images from the exhibit:
Pictures - BWAC Spring 2012 Art Show - New York NY | Examiner.com.
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A nearly full moon over Park Circle, Brooklyn, at the confluence of Ocean and Fort Hamilton Parkways.
Prospect Park Foliage
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Fall foliage, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.
NY Times film critic A.O. Scott will give four lectures with illustrative film clips on The Holocaust in Film on consecutive Sunday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 PM starting this Sunday March 20, 2010 at Park Slope Jewish Center (where Mr. Scott is a member) located at Eighth Avenue and 14th Street in Brooklyn.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: NY Times film critic A.O. Scott to teach Holocaust in film class - New York NY | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/ny-times-film-critic-a-o-scott-to-teach-holocaust-film-class#ixzz1Go4Grzcm
View this and other views of Windsor Terrace in the aftermath of the blizzard of 2010 on our Flickr album.
View more photos of Prospect Park after the blizzard of 2010 on our Flickr album.
Art works in Tabla Rasa's ongoing exhibits in the front of the gallery are more expensive, but after viewing those exhibits continue to the backroom (where art works are stored and packed for shipping and the gallery owners have their office) for an art sale in which all art works have prices no greater than $400.
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The 10th of Tevet is the traditional day of remembrance for victims of violence whose death dates and/or burial places are unknown. Tonight, December 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM a memorial service and rally will be held at Brooklyn's Parade Grounds (adjacent to the Tennis Center across the street from Prospect Park) to remember all victims of violence as well as the recent suicides of gay young adults.
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The following article is excerpted from the latest issue of n+1 magazine. This article is available online only in Slate.
"No one with 'literary' aspirations will expect to earn a living by publishing books; the glory days when publishers still waffled between patronage and commerce will be much lamented. The lit-lovers who used to become editors and agents will direct MFA programs instead; the book industry will become as rational—that is, as single-mindedly devoted to profit—as every other capitalist industry."
Will? Is it not to a considerable extent already so?
The author marks the boundaries of literary Brooklyn as DUMBO and Prospect Heights, but it is more accurate to draw its boundaries as a triangle that goes from Greenpoint in the northwest to Victorian Flatbush in the east to Red Hook in the southwest.
As a native New Yorker, Brooklynite, alumnus of a CCNY graduate creative writing program, poet/translator and fiction reviewer I am on the periphery of both literary cultures, and much of the article resonates with the ring of truth. However, in an era of government budget cuts I don't see MFA programs continuing to proliferate; indeed, they may prove vulnerable to the budget ax.
On Sunday afternoon, November 28th at 3pm Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn presents singer and pianist Lana Sokolov and saxophonist Sagit Zilberman in a performance of Jewish Love songs.
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In March 1939, four months after Kristallnact and six months after the Munich agreement under which Czechoslovakia was compelled to cede the Sudetenland, the German speaking areas that abutted the German border, to Germany, German troops occupied the rest of Czech speaking Bohemia and Moravia in what is today the Czech Republic, and a puppet state was created in Slovak speaking Slovakia. Prague resident Fred Terna was then 15; he would spend his late teens and early twenties in the Lipa, Terezin, Auschwitz, and Kaufering concentration camps. After the war he married a fellow survivor, and after his first wife died of cancer Fred married Rebecca Shiffman, the daughter of survivors, in 1982.
I interviewed Fred and Rebecca in August 2007 in their Clinton Hill, Brooklyn brownstone. I began the interview by asking how they met.
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City Tech will mark the 72nd anniversary of Kristallnacht and the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII on Thursday, November 11, 1 p.m., with Ann Kirschner, PhD, author of Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story, and the presentation of humanitarian awards to Nobel Prize winner Günter Blobel, MD, PhD, and Interfaith Committee of Remembrance (ICOR) founder and chairman Jerry Jacobs.
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This weekend enthusiasts and creators are gathering at the Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Avenue between Union and President Streets in Park Slope, for King Con, the borough's first large comics convention, featuring fifty-plus exhibitors and top talent appearing in readings and panel discussions.
Read the entire examiner.com article and view a slideshow of illustrations and book covers by KingCon writers and illustrators.
