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The documentary films of Aviva Kempner, a DC voting rights advocate and Forest Hills neighbor, star in this month’s Washington Jewish Film Festival. “I believe that I have been put on this earth to make films to counter negative stereotypes and give credit to Jewish heroes,” Kempner told the late Carolyn Jacobson in 2012. And […]
The objects that Pete Seligman picks up along Rock Creek don’t belong there – wood scraps, items of clothing, a crushed soda can. But some of them find a new purpose as a “jumping off point” for Seligman’s collages and constructions. Seligman lives on Veazey Terrace, and you might find him walking along Rock Creek […]
Max Hirshfeld’s photos have hung in museums, appeared in national ad campaigns and illustrated newsworthy events. For his latest project, the photographer has created an intimate portrait of his parents, Holocaust survivors who met in a Polish ghetto and fell in love while awaiting their deportation to death camps. The book, Hirshfeld’s first, is Sweet […]
by Ian Stevenson Several years ago, my father, Andrew Stevenson, ordered three colonies of three-banded Italian bees, three white hive bodies, two protective suits, and various tools. Getting bees was his project, but it soon became a family undertaking, and while my mother has certainly been the most helpful to him, when I am home […]
Karin Lithell’s introduction to the neighborhood five years ago is quite a tale, involving a wide-open front door, Secret Service agents, and neighbors keeping an eye out for masked invaders (raccoons, not robbers). Now the Swedish artist who has made her home in Forest Hills these last few years is returning to Sweden with her […]
by Marlene Berlin One reason Politics and Prose is a neighborhood treasure is because of its classes… and the people you meet there. This spring I enrolled in a class on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. There I met a neighbor who is concerned about the future of democracy in the U.S., in his […]
The last time documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner turned her cameras on the life of a Major League Baseball player, his exploits on the field were among his most noteworthy achievements. Now, 19 years after “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg,” the Forest Hills resident is releasing “The Spy Behind Home Plate.” It tells the […]
by Dzenita Mehic Saracevic It felt as if a strong, cold wind of one freezing January day in Van Ness propelled me, like a time machine, to a different time and location. I found myself in a place filled with an infinite number of antiquities and treasures: Chinese phone books from the 1920s and 30s, […]
by Marlene Berlin Sam Chaltain moved into the neighborhood a couple of years ago. He is married with three children. He can often be found walking his old dog very slowly up and down 30th Street. This gives him time to think. And the future of education is often on his mind. He blogs, writes […]
by Kathy E. Sykes It was a twist of fate that steered me to becoming a member of the board of directors of America Walks this past April. Here’s what happened. While attending the Active Living Research conference many years ago, I met some activists and researchers who were launching a national organization to make […]
