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February 10, 2006

Torino has had an unusually mild winter this year. Not enough snow. Which could spell bad news for the XX Winter Olympics, whose skiing events will take place on the Alps near the Piedmont city. For snow, Olympic officials turned to a seemingly unlikely spot: Israel. Bermad Control Valves, a kibbutz-based firm that usually makes […]

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A U.S. Army reconnaissance unit parachutes into Vilna in 1943. Surrounded by the Nazi and Russian armies, under heavy shelling, the American soldiers rendezvous with a Lithuanian partisan, a bearded hulk of a man named Bear. Stepping out of the rubble, Bear declares “We got package for you, very valuable, very … breakable.” Then the […]

The ìlast remnantsî of the Lower East Side?Holly Kaye, founding executive director of the Lower East Side Conservancy and now its consultant, was taken aback reading those words in the Associated Press story about the collapsed roof of the First Roumanian-American Congregation on Rivington Street. Yes, that shulís building, first built in 1857 and a […]

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