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Steal This Archive? Abbie Hoffman's Papers Become a College Collection
There are notes and letters from other icons of the 1960s. Cards from John and Yoko. A letter from Allen Ginsberg, the poet, offering to help him raise defense money. A plea by Norman Mailer to the governor of New York, seeking executive leniency on his behalf.
How Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
They are a religious community known for clinging to 18th-century fashions and mores — strict rules that keep men and women apart and constraints on attire, with men favoring black suits and formal hats and women in long sleeves and long skirts.
'It's Like Watching New York Melt': As Towers Rise, an Old Neighborhood Fades
NEW YORK — Almost every week, Jeremy Schaller gets a call from a developer who wants to buy the two unremarkable four-story buildings that house Schaller and Weber, a German sausage and sauerkraut landmark on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
At Auschwitz Exhibition, a Witness to a History He Can Never Forget
NEW YORK — Each weathered piece of history set off a mental reel of flickering images for Roman Kent.
Rafi Eitan, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead at 92
Rafi Eitan, the canny Israeli spymaster who commanded the Nazi-hunting team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and many years later was unmasked as the handler of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to passing on more than 1,000 secret documents to the Israelis, died Saturday in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was 92.Netflix's 'Shtisel' Is Binge-Worthy TV on a Strict Form of Judaism
The stories are the standard stuff of television dramas, sitcoms and soap operas.Albert Vorspan, 95, Dies; Rallied Reform Judaism for Social Justice
Albert Vorspan, who steered the Reform movement and other Jewish organizations toward immersing themselves in social causes, particularly the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans and opposition to the war in Vietnam, died Sunday in New Paltz, New York. He was 95<em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">.</em>
Paul Krassner, anarchist, prankster and a Yippies founder, dies at 87
He was a prankster, a master of the put-on that thumbed its nose at what he saw as a stuffy and blundering political establishment.
Velvel Pasternak, preserver of Hasidic music, is dead at 85
His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Gedalia, who said his father had had a cardiac arrest in May and never recovered.
Menachem Mendel Taub, grand rabbi and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96
Alone among the grand rabbis of the Hasidic world, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub had no ample beard, just a few short wisps of facial hair framed by long sidelocks. He could not produce children, and his voice had a higher pitch than that of his rabbinical counterparts.
Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, revered orthodox Rabbi, dies at 95
He had no more than a few hundred followers and no cavernous synagogue or prestigious yeshiva as his base.
Rafi Eitan, Israeli spymaster who caught Eichmann, is dead at 92
Rafi Eitan, the canny Israeli spymaster who commanded the Nazi-hunting team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and many years later was unmasked as the handler of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to passing on more than 1,000 secret documents to the Israelis, died Saturday in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was 92.
