Helen Schary Motro is author of Maneuvering between the Headlines: An American Lives through the Intifada (Other Press, New York 2005). An American lawyer living in Israel for 20 years with her family as well as part of each year in her native New York, Motro began her second career as a writer during the Gulf War in 1991. Motros commentary articles are published frequently in the major American and international press including The New York Times, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune. A columnist for the Jerusalem Post from 1998 to 2002, Motro is recipient of the Common Ground Award for Journalism in the Middle East. Her poetry and fiction appear in literary magazines and anthologies. Motro holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the New York University School of Law. Helen is a member of the New York and Israel bars.
by Helen Schary Motro
Gush Dan is dotted with buildings erected over the
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last generation bearing the imprint of 80 year old architect Lydia Granot, a child survivor of the Holocaust and one of the Teheran children. Former clients don’t disappear - they metamorphose into friends.
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An exhibition, “A world apart next door”, at the
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Israel Museum and the prize winning film “Filling the Void” both allow the viewer an intimate look at the culture and traditions of the Hasidic community.
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Chagall: Love, War and Exile, an exhibition at the
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New York Jewish Museum, introduces another side of this artist’s work. A macabre, dark, period of suffering for all mankind is expressed in this work.
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Living what appears to be dozens of lives in one lifetime,
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Miriam Frank’s autobiography, “ takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride from Spain to Vichy France, as a refugee in Mexico, on to New Zealand and finally Israel before settling down in England”. Reviewed by Helen Schary Motro.
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Two exhibitions are currently on at the Nahum Gutman
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Museum in Tel Aviv - one features Jewish Israeli painters and the other an Israeli Arab photographer. Both cover the first half of the twentieth century. Local Hero: Portrait of the Arab in Israeli Painting includes works by Gutman, Reuven Rubin, Ludwig Blum and other artists. Chalil Raad, Photographs 1891- 1948 chronicles the landscape and the lives of native Arab Israelis - a truly remarkable photographer.
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The international winner of 14th annual Tel Aviv Documentary
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Film Festival was Planet of Snail, a love story from South Korea. Through what the festival judges called “poetic and pure” cinematography, it portrays the transcendence of love and the sanctity of life in the face of the biggest odds in the world.
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A review of the fascinating exhibition of Egyptian
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art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The main exhibit, called Pharaoh in Canaan: The Untold Story features over 600 objects found locally. Ancient Egypt is also featured in a concurrent exhibit :The Allure of the Sphinx, Ancient Egypt in European Art and both exhibits express the interconnectedness and overlap of human cultures.
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Helen highly recommends the exhibition at the Israel
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Museum - Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe. The fascinating exhibition reveals how local habitat strongly influenced Jewish wardrobes. Most of the clothes come from communities from Egypt and Tunisia on the west to Iran and India on the east whereas few garments from Nazi occupied Europe survived the Holocaust.
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The amazing story of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese
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vice-consul in Kaunas, Lithuania (formerly known as Kovno) who after the Russian invasion of Lithuania in 1940 issued blank visas for Jewish refugees. It is estimated that between 6,000 and 10,000 people were directly saved by Sugihara visas.
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W. Eugene Smith, a pioneer of humanistic photojournalism,
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was one of the giants of 20th century photography. Tel Aviv Museum owns a large collection of Smith photographs. Forty of them spanning his long career are now on exhibit in a one-man show at the museum including the iconic shot The Walk to Paradise of two children walking hand in hand.
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Kehinde Wiley, himself a young black American artist,
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exhibited his 14 larger than life forceful paintings of Israeli Ethiopians in the Jewish Museum in New York.
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