Nested under a dome with geometric arabesque patterns and appearing to float on water, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is now home to Matisse, Mondrian — and George Washington. The abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko hangs a few steps away from Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and a portrait of George Washington in
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA French court on Tuesday ordered the return of a painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro to the family of a Jewish art collector dispossessed during World War II. The court ruled in favour of the relatives of Simon Bauer, a wealthy businessman whose assets were seized in 1943 by the anti-Semitic wartime French government
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International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA minister in Britain”s Conservative government will not be fired for unauthorized meetings with senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but was compelled to issue an apology Monday. Priti Patel, the Secretary of State for International Development in Theresa May”s Conservative government and a member of the party”s “Thatcherite” wing met with senior
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International, Middle EastArabs hurled rocks at an Israeli bus passing by an Arab village built along Route 60 in Samaria this morning, 0404 reported. The bus was reportedly passing by the school in the Arab village of Luban Ash-Sharqiya near the Jewish community of Maale Levona when it was hit by rocks. Hatzalah of Judea and Samaria
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Middle EastBONN, Germany – Some 250 art works that a reclusive collector hid from the world for decades, including pieces likely looted from Jewish owners under Nazi rule, are on show at a German museum. The paintings being shown starting from Thursday at Bonn’s Bundeskunsthalle – including works by Albrecht Duerer, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIt’s Anne Frank—without the Jews or the Nazis! A Dutch production of a new take on the diary-writing young girl will open amid criticism from Jewish groups this week for erasing the Frank family’s Jewish identity and failing to mention the Nazis who killed Anne and her sister in a concentration camp. Frank, of course,
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBEIJING — President Barack Obama made his last trip to Asia, in September 2016, from a position of relative strength. His approval ratings were reliably high, both at home and abroad. He deepened collaboration with China on climate change, doubled American aid to Laos and lifted an arms embargo on Vietnam. But in terms of
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International, USARussian billionaire Yuri Milner gained fame and wealth as an early backer of Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and other Silicon Valley startups. Called “Russia’s most influential tech investor” by Forbes, Milner’s wealth has enabled him to partner with Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg in scientific philanthropy, form a spacecraft initiative with famed physicist Stephen Hawking, and
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International, USABy Alexander Fulbright Two confidants of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were released from police custody late Sunday night after some 15 hours of questioning in the investigation into suspected corruption in the purchase of naval vessels from a German shipbuilder. While police did not reveal the identities of the two, multiple reports named one of
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Middle EastThe former Air Force airman who shot dead 26 people in a Texas church had been jailed by the military for beating his wife and child, and had ranted against God and the church on his social media pages. Devin Patrick Kelley, a white 26-year-old who was dressed head-to-toe in black combat gear when he
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USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The death of a 20-year-old fraternity pledge from Pompano Beach led Florida State University to shut down all Greek life activities Monday. Alcohol is suspected of playing a role in the death of Andrew Coffey, whose body was found Friday — the morning after a gathering of more than 50 people
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWe knew climate change was melting Greenland’s glaciers, but new data shows things are even worse than we thought. Left: Greenland topography color-coded from 4,900 feet (1,500 meters) below sea level (dark blue) to 4,900 feet above sea level (brown). Right: regions below sea level connected to the ocean, either shallower than 600 feet (200
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International, The World We ShareOf all the things Syrian refugees leave behind, one of the most surprising is language. Not the dialect they speak at home, but the Arabic of written and formal speech. It’s the form of Arabic used in school, books, public life and media. It’s a simplified version of the Arabic of the Quran, and you