admin | September 9, 2020
By Toby Axelrod, JTA Caroline Wellberys father, the late German literary scholar Egon Schwarz, fled Austria with his family after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, when he was 15. Schwarz ended up studying in the United States and then teaching at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis
admin | September 9, 2020
Since its founding in 1867, Brooklyn Friends School has highlighted its Quaker valuesits website notes that those values include community: taking care of one another and equality: honoring each person and working against oppression. Considering the schools progressive traditions, many Brooklyn Friends families and alumni were stunned when school officials disclosed in mid-August that they had asked the Trump National Labor Relations Board to kick out the union representing 400 of its employees. The school, with minimum tuition of $46,400 a year, asked the labor board to invoke a two-month-old NLRB decision and declare that as a religious institution, Brooklyn Friends no longer had to recognize or bargain with its union.
admin | August 31, 2020
Heres what you need to know: Republicans have intensified their unrest-focused message, with Kenosha as a backdrop. Richard Grenell, a former diplomat and intelligence official, revives an unsubstantiated wiretap claim
admin | August 26, 2020
Image by Getty/Tabatha Fireman/Str... The artist Wiley prompted a Twitter walkout of British Jews after an anti-Semitic tirade posted on the platform
admin | August 26, 2020
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admin | August 18, 2020
We came to Kuwait, and the Americans showed us an awful, splayed piece of metal, he recalled. I had never seen anything so horrific.
admin | August 18, 2020
A long summer of cultural scarcity was brought to a partial end on Friday when Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that museums would be able to reopen in New York on August 24albeit at 25% capacity and with timed ticketing in place. The Phase 4 reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and other cultural hubs after a five-month absence is undoubtedly exciting, but our current situation demands a certain level of advance preparation: To that end, weve compiled a guide to whenand howsome of New York Citys most beloved museums and cultural institutions will be opening their doors. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Reopening date: August 29 Reopening plan: 25% capacity, timed entrance registration, face coverings required, coat check temporarily closed The Met Cloisters Reopening date: September 12 Reopening plan: 25% capacity, timed entrance registration, face coverings required, coat check temporarily closed The Whitney Reopening date: September 3 for the general public, August 27 for members Reopening plan: 25% capacity, timed entrance registration, temperature checks administered to visitors on arrival, social distancing enforced by museum guards MoMA Reopening date: August 27, with one month of free admission Reopening plan: 25% capacity, timed entrance registration, face coverings required The American Museum of Natural History Reopening date: September 9 for the general public, September 2 for members Reopening plan: 25% capacity, timed entrance registration, face coverings required, plexiglass barriers at ticket counters, hand-sanitizer stations throughout the building, cordoned-off interactive displays, limited elevator and restroom capacity Museum of Jewish Heritage Reopening date: September 9 Reopening plan: 25% capacity, timed entrance registration, face coverings required, limited hours (open three days per week, as opposed to its previous six)
admin | August 18, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The American Museum of Natural History (Photos by Rob Kim/Getty Images) New York City museums now have the green light to reopen starting Aug.
admin | August 18, 2020
Times Herald-Record HOW TO SUBMIT AN EVENT To submit events in the Whats Happening calendar for online and print, go to recordonline.com/entertainment and click on calendar. Then click on Promote Your Event.
admin | August 16, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History have set reopening dates for this month or next (Getty) New York Citys museums have been in limbo since the state excluded indoor cultural activities from Phase 4 of reopening. But several have gone ahead and set tentative reopening dates already.
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