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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | yesterday
EasyJet has apologised for using images of models posing at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin Airline apologises for poor taste of fashion spread that used Jewish Museum and Holocaust memorial as backdrop The budget airline easyJet has been forced to withdraw almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of protests over its use of Holocaust memorial sites as a backdrop for a fashion feature....
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The Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Red faces at Ink Publishing whose latest edition of the Easyjet in-flight magazine has been pulped for featuring a fashion shoot set inside the holocaust memorial in Berlin. The unsanctoned shoot was first revealed by the New Statesman earlier this week in a story which prompted Easyjet to withdraw the mag. Easyjet told the NS: “EasyJet profusely [...]
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
BUDGET European airline easyJet has apologised for printing photographs of models posing at Berlin's Holocaust memorial in its inflight magazine.
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Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A good clear day in the city for the 5th Anniversary SketchCrawl, though it did get a little cold by late afternoon. Here is a view of the Museum of Modern Art, seen from across the way at at Yerba Buena Gardens. Some of the other sketchers in attendance, and a woman, possibly on some kind of layover, phoning all of her family. Gorgeous architecture all around, both old and new, and lots of museums....
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
EasyJet has apologized after printing a fashion editorial in its in-flight magazine, easyJet Traveller , that was shot at Berlin's Holocaust memorial. The two photographs of models wearing designer clothes and posing in the "Field of Stelae" were not approved by the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The Memorial's director Uwe Neumarker told Britain's New Statesman that...
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Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The South African Jewish community suffered a major loss last week with the death of prominent leader Mendel Kaplan, 73, following a stroke in Cape Town, where the funeral was held on Sunday. A major Jewish philanthropist, the billionaire industrialist was a citizen of both Israel and South Africa and lived in both. Kaplan was also interested in Jewish genealogy, particularly the South African Jewish...
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On Line Opinion - Latest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Israel is planning to build a Jewish museum on top of a Palestinian cemetery. It will be called the Museum of Tolerance.
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Kazimierz, Krakow's Jewish Quarter, had been home to Jews for 500 years before World War II. In Kazimierz, we stumbled into the streets of our forefathers.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A traditional retrospective on Man Ray, with an irresistible biographical hook, at the Jewish Museum.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The Jewish Museum is the perfect setting for this stunning major retrospective of Many Ray in all his multiple phases and innovations.
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SFist (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Do you hold your wine glass by the stem, shove your fat nose in the glass, and snort? Which is to say, do yo have a serious interest the the art of wine making? If so, head down to the Press Club , located at the bottom of the Four Seasons building, to meet the winemakers who craft the store's vino . Now that harvest season folks from Chateau Montelena, Fritz Winery, Hanna Winery and Vineyards, Miner...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker. Relatively few people know that he was...
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Studiopjj (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Check out Man Ray's stunning art collection at The Jewish Museum in New York City. His art is natural and provocative. Don't miss. Useful link: www.thejewishmuseum.org