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FILMMAKER
ARTHUR COHN - GUARDIAN OF ZION
By Toby Klein Greenwald
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The
warmth and cordiality of producer Arthur Cohn
permeated the crowd of several hundred invited
guests who turned out to honor him on May 27 in
a location that could not have been more appropriate
- in the historic King David Hotel, across from
the Old City of Jerusalem. Cohn, an ardent Zionist
whose intensive connection to the Jewish people
and Israel informs many of his films, was there
to receive the prestigious Guardian of Zion Award
of Bar-Ilan University's Ingeborg Rennert Center
for Jerusalem Studies.
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Editorials
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THE FACES OF
THE CHAIN
By Toby Klein Greenwald
My photographer,
Rebecca, and I drive down the long winding highway
leading from Gush Etzion to Masmia, the crossroads
at which people from Efrat will join the chain
stretching from Gush Katif to the Cotel. I lean
back and enjoy the late afternoon sun on the fields.
There are sunflowers and wheat, and, as we reach
further south, cacti bristling. Most of the foliage
is still lush, for this is a road bordered by
evergreen trees. Junctions in the road are punctuated
by teenagers hitchhiking in the same direction.
I try to analyze the comfortable feeling I have
on this warm July day, on this road, by these
fields, with my friends, passing these young people.
And one word comes to mind: home.
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"Sometimes I think I prefer
the storyteller in him to the photographer. But aren't
they one and the same?"
- Elie Wiesel in his Foreword to A Vanished World (photographs)
by Roman Vishniac
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ODESSA -
It was a bright
Wednesday afternoon, July 7, 2004. We were moved to
tears as we approached and heard hundreds of young children
singing in Hebrew to welcome us. No, this wasn't Jerusalem;
it was not even Israel. We were in the Ukraine.
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