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Winnie-the-Pooh Bear at the NYPL: Print books versus the Internet

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Suzanne Loebl

The current exhibit at the New York Public Library is entitled The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter (through September 7, 2014). The show explores 300 years of best-loved children’s books. My favorite display is of the original Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, … Continue reading →

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A Boutique Wine Blossoms in the Desert

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

Zvi Remak does not complain about traffic jams, but once in awhile a car stops at Sde Boker’s gift shop to buy the excellent Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot produced on the kibbutz. The wine is clearly Zvi’s baby. Back in … Continue reading →

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Rachel Shavit Bentwich at the Hecht Museum in Haifa

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

I met Rachel Shavit Bentwich in 1954, when she arrived in America with her spouse Nechemia Shavit–my husband Ernest’s classmate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem–and her son. Rachel was to spend a year studying art at the University of … Continue reading →

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A Sentimental Trip to the Holy Land

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

To celebrate spring and, with some delay, the completion of my Rockefeller opus, husband Ernest and I decided to visit our past: Israel and Paris, both in their various ways engulfed by conflict. It was an emotion-laden trip for my … Continue reading →

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