Lillian Swanson
By Lillian Swanson
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News Looted Paintings Returned to Poland
Two oil paintings stolen by the Nazis 67 years ago from the walls of Poland?s National Museum in Warsaw were returned Thursday night to the people and government of Poland in a ceremony held at the Polish consulate in New York. Polish artist Julian Falat painted the works, ?The Hunt? and ?Off to the Hunt?…
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Opinion A Story Whose Effects Continue to Ripple Out
As editors, we are always looking for stories that will resonate with our readers, tales that will connect with them in some deep and meaningful way. And when we hear that a story we’ve published has had a big impact, it causes us to stop and savor the thought that our work has made a…
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The Schmooze Crusading Editor Who Brought Orthodox Sex Abuse to Light
A courtroom sketch from Yisroel Shapiro’s trial on charges of sexual molestation. Courtesy of Bennett-Robbins Productions. A handshake was all it took to set Scott Rosenfelt, an accomplished filmmaker, on a journey to break the wall of secrecy protecting child sex abusers in the Orthodox Jewish community. The way Rosenfelt tells it, a friend, Phil…
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Opinion Measuring the American Jewish Population Today
Oy, the perils of random telephone dialing, one of the tried and true methods of accurately measuring population trends. Sometimes, you hear the most unexpected replies. “We have 50 women all married to the same Jew,” said the respondent who answered the phone in St. Petersburg, Fla., during a demographic survey. What?! “We had called…
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Food A Final Bagel from H & H
The sign is gone at the legendary H & H bagel shop at West 80th and Broadway. A TV truck with its long-prong antenna is parked out front. On the sidewalk, people pull their smart phones up to eye level and snap away. Today is reportedly the last day of the Upper West Side bagel…
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Life A Royal Wedding, An Unscripted Moment
As I watched the royal wedding unfold on television today, I was flooded with memories of the day I covered the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana nearly 30 years ago. I thought, as I so often have, of the one tender, unscripted moment I saw amid all the pomp and the pageantry of…
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News A Grave Marker Unveiled for Six Triangle Fire Victims Who Had Been Unknowns
A grave marker inscribed with the names of the six victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire who were only recently identified was unveiled April 5 in Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn. The six were buried as unknowns 100 years ago, and later a large monument was dedicated to them at the cemetery. The new stone…
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News A Bridge Between Two Worlds
On these pages you will find translated into English for the first time the original coverage of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire from the pages of the Yiddish-language Forverts. In these pieces, the emotions run raw and the writing is evocative and as visual as any of the images that accompany the articles. They have…
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