Marilyn Henry
National News
- Jews Displaced From Arab Lands Finally Recognized
- A College With 80 Tongues Tries To Speak in One Voice
- Jewish Lobby Sits Out Vote On Armenian Genocide
Community News
- New Restaurant Seal Meets With Approval
- In Dispute Over Using ‘Rabba,’ Supporters Find Reason for Optimism
- Hadassah and Hospital Resolve Rift
International News
- Kudrow Explores Her Roots and Takes Other Friends With Her
- With Prayer and Nursery Rhymes, Religious Leaders Call Attention to Sudan
- Hamas Retaliation for Dubai Hit Seen As Likely to Be Constrained
Israel News
- Promoting Israel As a ‘Cultural Hotbed’ Isn’t Always a Winner
- Jerusalem Pitches Goldstone Report as a Threat to U.S. Military and its Allies
- Only Path to Peace Is an Armistice Now
Arts & Culture
- Hot Lands of Clay
- Going Down to Funky Town
- It’s Complicated
- St. Patrick’s Day With the Irish and the Jews
- A Big-Headed Dandy
- An Inquisition for the 21st Century
Fast Forward
- Remember Bitter Herb?
- New E-Haggadah Brings a Fifth Child to the Table
- A Recipe for the Soul
- C-Sections: A Birthing Debate Divides New Moms
- The Tribe That Bites
- Chronicling Obama’s Presidency Via Poetry
The Shmooze
- Miss Congeniality’s Mishegas
- How Curious George Fought the Nazis
- In Israel, Metallica Ticket Prices Stir Backlash
- The Rhyme and Reason of Israeli Hip-Hop
- When Yoga and Mindfulness Meet Torah
- Political Wife Duped by Israeli Press
Forward Forum
- Pesach on My Mind
- We Can’t Afford to Give Up on the United Nations
- Non-Zero Sum: Helping Others And Ourselves
- Only Israelis and Palestinians Can Make Peace
- Dark Clouds Behind Survey’s Silver Lining
- Why Anglo-Israeli Ties Will Survive Dubai
Editorial
Hillary Can Finish What She Started
By Marilyn Henry
The way then-president Bill Clinton told it, Edgar Bronfman had “buttonholed Hillary.” The president, speaking at a World Jewish Congress gala at Manhattan’s Pierre Hotel in September 2000, was referring to a meeting in April 1996 between Bronfman and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.Read More
The Bittersweet Legacy of a Rich Man’s Looted Art
By Marilyn Henry
New Restitution Claim Emerges in Sweden
By Marilyn Henry
Sweden’s museum of modern art is facing its first claim for Nazi-era displaced art: an Emil Nolde painting that went missing when a Frankfurt businessman tried to ship his artworks from Germany in 1939. The government recently decided that the Moderna Museet in Stockholm must resolve the claim for the painting it bought 40 years ago.Read More
Art Restitution Goes on Trial
By Marilyn Henry
A lawsuit over ownership of 14 paintings by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich is currently pending in federal court in Washington. The case is complex, but this much seems certain: The court’s ruling will strongly influence whether American courts remain open to claims for Nazi-looted artworks being held by European museums.Read More
The Restitution Law of Unintended Consequences
By Marilyn Henry
In late 2005, the Knesset passed Israel’s first Nazi-era restitution law. The legislation was the work of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for the Location and Restitution of Assets of Holocaust Victims, which had been set up by Knesset member Colette Avital after reports that Israeli institutions held bank accounts and real estate belonging to Jews who perished in the Holocaust.Read More
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