Short Takes

Never Again: 2002

04/12/2002 | by Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

On the day that Jews remember the victims of the Holocaust, a rally in Manhattan this week protested a contemporary strain of European anti-Semitism.
On Yom HaShoah several dozen poster-carrying Jews, including Holocaust survivors and yeshiva students, marched in front of the French Consulate on the Upper East Side, prompted by a recent wave of attacks in France against members of the Jewish community and on Jewish buildings. The rally was led by the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha.

Nazi Art/Mediocre Draw

04/12/2002 | by Daniel Belasco | Staff Writer

Despite a public outcry from Holocaust survivors and a nearly universal dismissal from art critics, the public has not stayed away from The Jewish Museum’s controversial exhibition “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art.”

Nor have they come out in droves.

The widespread mass media coverage prior to the March 17 opening has surprisingly lead to no great surge or decline in attendance.

Nazi Art/Mediocre Draw

04/12/2002 | by Daniel Belasco

Nor have they come out in droves.

The widespread mass media coverage prior to the March 17 opening has surprisingly lead to no great surge or decline in attendance.

Easing Their Pain

04/05/2002 | by Adam Dickter | Staff Writer

They are among hundreds of victims of Palestinian terrorism, but there was something about the tragic story of the Bloombergs of Ginot Shimron that prompted Rabbi Moshe Drelich to act.
“You start with one family at a time,” said the rabbi, assistant principal of SAR Academy in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. “You save the world one neshama [soul] at a time.”

Symphony’s New Space

04/05/2002 | by Daniel Belasco | Staff Writer

The surplus capital of the indefatigable 1990s economy may be a memory, but its effects are still being felt in the ongoing expansion of many of New York’s cultural centers, from Jazz at Lincoln Center to the Brooklyn Museum.

Now this trend has reached all the way to West 95th Street. Symphony Space, once housed in an intimate but sticky-floored former skating rink, has recently completed a $12 million renovation. After a nearly two-year closure, the beloved performing arts group officially reopens April 8.