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First Posted: 5/17/12 09:54 AM EDT Updated: 5/17/12 09:54 AM EDT

The Second Kitchen Collective was created by a group of college-age friends who love music and film. The house where a few of the members live has two kitchens, the second of which has been transformed into an intimate musical setting. The collective features both local and touring musicians. In this video, “Lenny & Lou” Newman play accordion and piano in the Kitchen studio. They are a local couple who have been married more than 60 years. The duo plays everywhere from retirement homes to private parties with a set list of more than 500 songs. See how many songs you can name in this medley! We will be posting Second Kitchen Collective videos monthly, but in the meantime, they [...]

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Alvin Rosenfeld: Anti-Semitism Scholar

First Posted: 5/16/12 01:04 PM EDT Updated: 5/16/12 01:04 PM EDT
Originally published April/May 2010

BY DEB KENT It has been called “the longest hatred,” and it has long held the attention of Alvin Rosenfeld, founder and director of the new Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University. Rosenfeld says his reason for creating the institute, one of only two of its kind at American universities, “is as simple—and complex—as trying to discover what keeps alive this deep hatred and seeing what might be done to ameliorate it.” A professor of Jewish studies and English, Rosenfeld knows this terrain well. He is the author of Thinking About the Holocaust: After Half a Century and Imagining Hitler (both by IU Press), among other books and scores of articles on the Nazi era. But [...]

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