Pagan Bones, Angelina Jolie: Temple Destroyer and Tragedy at Sea of Biblical Proportions
February 7th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Pagans want their bones back, and British museums (again) are stuck between “betrayal of a museum’s duty to society and a loss to science” and returning stolen objects. [Guardian]
The temple of Phnom Bakheng, once attacked by Siamese soldiers, is now falling prey to a more formidable enemy: tourists. Angelina Jolie might be to blame. [Washington Post]
Here are two more articles about Jules. [Nextbook, NY Times]
Reader Mimi Fragin tells me that she was at the opening of 25-year-old artist Rachel Haas’ exhibit at the Synagogue for the Arts called “Urban Synagogues,” and “the red dots were going up at a furious pace. It appeared that somewhere in the realm of 3/4 of the works sold.” The piece I see on the synagogue’s Web site, pictured, looks quite interesting.
To Joshua Kosman, the Israeli Philharmonic is comparable to pets, and conductor Zubin Mehta could afford to be more of a disciplinarian. [SF Chronicle]
“I didn’t set out to make my version of Rachel Corrie … But I suspected there would be sensitivities to the plays … Are they anti-Semitic or are they about anti-Semitism? We wanted to open up that discussion,” Theater for a New Audience’s artistic director, Jeffrey Horowitz tells the Voice. [Village Voice]
Thirty-six thousand bibles — written in the Xhosa language — were lost in a storm at sea. The bibles, which belonged to The Bible Society of Germany, cost just under $100,000 to print. [Catholic World News]