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"Simckes, while on a Fulbright to Israel, 1996 Lazarre Seymour Simckes is an award-winning playwright, novelist, educator, Hebrew-English translator, and psychotherapist. He has developed approaches to the use of creative writing in areas including prison therapy and cross-cultural communication between students in the Middle East. Life and works Simckes, descended from a long line of rabbis (including his father Herbert Isaac Simckes, grandfather Mnachem Risikoff and great-grandfather Zvi Yosef Resnick). He was born in Saratoga Springs, New York,Simckes, L.S., Seven Days of Mourning, Random House, 1963, "About the Author" and raised in Boston.Writers and Poets: Writers directory, retrieved February 7, 2011. He is a graduate of Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Stanford University (Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow, M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He has taught at colleges and universities throughout the United States including Harvard, Yale, Williams, Vassar, Brandeis and Tufts, and in Israel at Bar-Ilan and at the University of Haifa. He has conducted live, interactive writing workshops via satellite linking middle school and high school students across the United States, including the Virgin Islands. During his Fulbright year at the University of Haifa, he conducted a similar workshop linking Israeli Arab and Jewish high school students with their counterparts in America ("Celebrating Differences")."Bridging Differences," The Israel Fulbrighter, pg 7, 1995-1996, Israel. =Playwright= His first play, Seven Days of Mourning (adapted from his novel published by Random House), was staged on Broadway at Circle in the Square. Clive Barnes called it "spiky, yet intensely moving. A Fiddler on the Roof without music, but with blood. Unique, wild, funny. It still haunts me." Simckes wrote the off-off-Broadway play Ten Best Martyrs of the Year, a Theater for the New City (TNC) production directed by Crystal Field, about the ten rabbis who were tortured to death in Rome for supporting the revolt led by Bar Kokhbah in 2nd century Palestine. Simckes said of that play, "I tend to make tragic comment in a mixture of styles. So what did I do? I wrote a play as if through the eyes of Hadrian, the Roman emperor, watching the genocide of the Jews from his balcony."Tallmer, Jerry, "Nossig's Antics at Theater for the New City", The Villager, May 4, 2004, retrieved February 7, 2011. The play was reviewed by Michael Smith in The Village Voice as "timeless, mythic, enlivened by all kinds of stylistic intrusions and an almost hysterical inventiveness."BroadwayWorld.com, retrieved February 7, 2011. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969 New Haven, Connecticut, 2009 Another of Smickes' off-off- Broadway productions, Nossig's Antics, also a TNC production directed by Crystal Field, focuses on the character of Alfred Nossig, who was accused of collaborating with Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, and executed in 1943, just before his 80th birthday, by a Jewish fighters organization.McBee, Richard, The Jewish Press , June 2, 2004, retrieved February 7, 2011. The critic Richard McBee called it "a riveting puzzle," and it has also been described as a "dark farce" and an "absurd exploration of history and the horrific times we live in." His other plays include Minutes, a fictional encounter between Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler; "Soldier Boys" about Czar Nicholas's 1827 edict to recruit Jews into the Russian army for the first time, including children as Cadets, which had a reading at Theater for the New City with Judd Hirsch as the Czar; and "Open Rehearsal," chosen by Edward Albee as first runner-up in the inaugural 2006-2007 Yale Drama Series Competition, He also wrote the screenplay for Sidney Lumet's movie version of The Last Temptation of Christ, which has not yet been produced. =Novelist and translator= Simckes's first published work was a translation of two stories by the Israeli author, S. Y. Agnon, followed by the short story, "Behold My Servant!", published in Stanford Short Stories 1962. His novels include Seven Days in Mourning and The Comatose Kids. He has translated a number of works from Hebrew to English, including Adam Resurrected, The Chocolate Deal, and Commander of the Exodus. He also translated Nava Semel's children's book, Becoming Gershona, about a twelve-year-old girl in 1958 Tel Aviv,Alibris.com, retrieved February 7, 2011. which won the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature. In addition to Hebrew, Simckes is fluent in Yiddish, and according to the director of the film Kvetch, Austin Kase, Simckes was one of the inspirations for the movie, and also appeared in it.Claudell, Matthew, "Kvetch director schvitzes out a movie" , October 8, 2010, Yale News =Psychotherapist= As a practicing psychotherapist, Simckes has worked with multi-problem families and imprisoned sex offenders. An article in The Israeli Fulbrighter notes that Simckes found a "dual vocation as a writer and healer." After studying at the Kantor Family Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he began using brief writing assignments with patients in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, to help them deal with their problems. He continued working on this idea and eventually launched writing workshops in community centers, "attempting to foster literacy, empathy, listening skills, insight, respect, and resolution of conflict." He believes writing exercises are especially effective because "they serve to highlight the problem in a way that it can be dealt with." =Cross-cultural educator= Simckes has tried to bring all his talents and experiences to bear in his efforts among Israelis and Palestinians. He made "fostering cross-cultural insights and empathy" in the "interlocked perspectives surrounding the Arab/Israeli encounter" the core of his Fulbright year in Israel, at the University of Haifa. Simckes standing on bridge over Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963 Among his initiatives were a creative writing seminar, "The Mirror of Fiction", and a two-way live interactive video workshop, "Celebrating Differences", broadcast on February 27, 1996. The live interactive TV seminar linked American high school students in the United States with Jewish and Arab students (both Israeli and Palestinian) in Israel. "He created a live bridge and prompted the participants to share their experiences on handling differences," helping the students gain new insights about one another. To prepare for the Israeli video program, broadcast through the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, Simckes made frequent visits to Nazareth, Beit Hagefen, and Jish to find students who were comfortable with writing spontaneously, and sharing their writing on the air—and prepared to listen, not just "to yell at each other." Use of language Simckes has strong feelings about the use of English in workshops that involve both Israeli and Palestinians, because it is a "bridge language" and a "diffuser of power" in a political sense, interrupting "the implication of power through language." He believes that the ability to listen is critical to both writing and healing, and hopes his writing workshops strengthen that skill. If people "can hear each other," he says, "they become a community." Awards His awards include two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships and the 1991 National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category. Simckes received the Best Actor award for his performance in the award-winning comedy short-film, Kvetch. Books = As an author = *Seven Days of Mourning, Random House, 1963, Library of Congress Catalog Number 63-16151 *The Comatose Kids, University of Alabama Press, 1975, = As a translator = * Semel, N. (1990). Becoming Gershona (L.S. Simckes, Trans.). Viking Children's Books. * Gouri, H. (1999). The Chocolate Deal (L.S. Simckes, Trans.). Wayne State University Press. * Kaniuk, Y. (2001). Commander of the Exodus (L.S. Simckes, Trans.). Grove Press. References External links *Simckes play database. * (Note: Simckes is first actor seen in the trailer.) 1937 births Jewish American writers American psychotherapists Jewish dramatists and playwrights Living people Hebrew–English translators Yiddish-speaking people Fulbright Scholars Cross- cultural studies Harvard College alumni Stanford University alumni Harvard University faculty Yale University faculty Williams College faculty Vassar College faculty Brandeis University faculty Tufts University faculty Bar-Ilan University faculty University of Haifa faculty "
"Peter Taylor (born 3 January 1984) is a New Zealand rower. Taylor was born in 1984 in Lower Hutt; he lives in Days Bay. In 2006 along with Graham Oberlin- Brown he became the Under 23 World Champion in the men's lightweight double sculls, and in doing so set a new world under 23 best time. Partnering Storm Uru he finished 7th in the men's lightweight double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The pair bettered this result at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the same event. In February 2011, Taylor caused an upset win when he became New Zealand national champion in the lightweight men's single sculls at Lake Ruataniwha, beating triple world champion Duncan Grant. At the 2013 World Rowing Championships held at Tangeum Lake, Chungju in South Korea, he won a silver medal in the lightweight men's four with James Hunter, Curtis Rapley, and James Lassche. At the 2014 World Rowing Championships held at Bosbaan, Amsterdam, he won a silver medal in the lightweight men's four with James Hunter, Alistair Bond, and Curtis Rapley. Taylor retired from rowing after competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Lower Hutt Olympic rowers of New Zealand Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand New Zealand male rowers Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics "
"Guatemala's min. Dr. G. Granados leaving the president's house after presenting his credentials, Jerusalem Dr. Jorge García Granados (21 April 1900 – 3 May 1961) was a politician and diplomat from Guatemala, a grandson of Miguel García Granados, the leader and philosopher of the liberal revolution in the 19th century. Granados was the ambassador of his country to the United Nations and a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). Granados cast the very first vote for the creation of the state of Israel and Guatemala became the first Latin American country to recognize Israel after the proclamation of the state. At the time of the vote on the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, Granados organized a lobby of South American countries to support the partition plan. In 1956, Guatemala became the first country to open an embassy in Jerusalem, with Granados appointed as the first ambassador. The Israeli cities of Jerusalem and Ramat- Gan named streets to honor Granados. Garcia Granados wrote about his experience serving on the UNSCOP in his book, The Birth of Israel: The Drama as I Saw It. In the book, Granados describes his youth, his time in political exile from Guatemala during the reign of military dictatorships, the achievements of the Zionist movement during the British mandate on Palestine, and the events surrounding the creation of Israel. Notes References * American Jewish year book, 1974–75 External links * Jorge Garcá Granados: The birth of Israel: The Drama as I Saw It Guatemalan diplomats Guatemalan politicians Presidents of the Congress of Guatemala 1961 deaths 1900 births Permanent Representatives of Guatemala to the United Nations Ambassadors of Guatemala to Israel Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations People of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 0181 "