September 2017
- This Jewish activist was arrested and deported for her book ‘Lesbian Love.’ 100 years later, will NYC apologize?In 1926, New York City police arrested Eve Adams, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who ran a lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, for the crime of being gay. The formal charges were more euphemistic. Officially, Adams was charged with disorderly conduct — that is, flirting with an undercover police officer who had entrapped her, and obscenity, for... […]
- Ever the restless spirit, Tel Aviv-born architect and designer Ron Arad is still reinventing himself and his artWhen the announcement was made on June 12 that Ron Arad, 75, has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), it marked another step in the Tel Aviv-born architect, artist and designer’s remarkably varied journey. Arad’s mother was the painter Esther Peretz-Arad and his father Grisha was a sculptor and... […]