Click Here to Read: How a Yiddish theater mecca became ‘the church of rock ‘n’ roll’ by Henry Sapoznik on the Forward website on July 21, 2021. Originally a Yiddish theatre, then a movie house, Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in this building on Second Avenue near 6th Street in the East Village in 1968 and closed it in 1971. It later became The Saint, a gay disco. The Emigrant Bank branch seen here occupies the theatre’s old entrance lobby, the theatre inside was gutted and converted to apartments, Hudson East at 225 East 6th Street.Image: Beyond My Ken.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read:  The singularly Jewish tragedy of Maria Callas by Benjamin Ivry on the Forward website on June 28, 2021. |
Photo of Maria Callas from the television talk show Small World. The program was hosted by Edward R. Murrow. Image: CBS Television.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here To Read: A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say. The discovery highlights that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic thought — something once attributed only to our own species. By Tom Metcalfe on the NBC News weon July 5, 2021, 
Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) Irish elk skeleton from the Pleistocene (public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA). Image: James St. John  PUblic Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.