A Living Lens: Serenading Sharansky

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky

After the show, Mendelson, who was president of the Cantors Assembly at the time, met Sharansky backstage, and remembers the picture being taken — though “how it got in the Forward I’ll never know.”
Alana Newhouse, the Forward’s Arts & Culture editor, is touring the country, speaking about her new book, “A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life From the Pages of the Forward.”
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— Joel Brown, Forward board chair
