LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A 20-year-old Yeshiva University student who fled Iran because of anti-Semitism has won asylum in the United States, according to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
The student’s identity is being kept private for fear that relatives still in Iran would face persecution.
The student arrived in the United States as a tourist with his family in 1998, but remained when they returned home. His parents faced increasing anti-Semitism at a time when 13 Iranian Jews were accused of spying for Israel, and HIAS helped other family members flee to Vienna.
Lieberman yarmulke debuts in cyberspace
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Web site is selling yarmulkes with a logo for Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s presidential campaign.
The site — www.joebeanie.com — sells the kippot for $12.95 plus $4.95 for shipping and handling.
The site, which is unaffiliated with the campaign, was featured Tuesday on CNN’s “Inside Politics.”
Famous caricaturist Hirschfeld dies at 99
NEW YORK (JTA) — Al Hirschfeld, who drew caricatures of Broadway personalities for more than 75 years, died Monday in New York at 99.
He was known for his drawings of personalities ranging from the Marx Brothers to Carol Channing to Sammy Davis Jr., many of which appeared in The New York Times.
“My contribution is to take the character created by the playwright and acted out by the author and reinvent it for the reader,” he said.
Among Hirschfeld’s drawings is one of the late
Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, which can be seen at www.margofeiden.com/|cgi-bin/popup?ID=REBBE