The Dizz off the market, Middle East Peace Plan coming, Notre Dame pledges, Passover Primer and more
Remembering Staff Sgt. Paul Savanuck
Paul Savanuckwas the first and only Stars and Stripes correspondent killed duringthe Vietnam conflict (and the first since the Korean War). He was posthumouslypromoted to staff sergeant and awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star andthe Air Medal. The Defense Department also named its military print journalistof the year award after Savanuck. April 18 marks the 50th anniversary of hisdeath while serving in Vietnam.
Read Alan Feiler’s tribute to Savanuck
The Dizz is off the market
The ownersof The Dizz are staying put. Last September, Darlene and Thomas L. Basta Jr.listed the restaurant for sale and said they were ready to retire after 10years of owning the Remington rowhouse bar and eatery, according to BaltimoreFishbowl. “We are grateful to our wonderful clients, great employees and theRemington Community,” they said in a statement at the time. “It has been anhonor and pleasure serving you and watching our Remington Community grow! Wecould not have done this without you.” But now, after an outpouring of supportfrom community members, the Bastas have decided to keep The Dizz.
Read more: The Dizz is off the market as owners decide to keep the restaurant
52 apartments planned to replace KAGRObuilding on North Ave.
APennsylvania developer is proposing to construct a five-story, 52-unitapartment building at 101-105 W. North Ave., next to the Lazarus Center of theMaryland Institute College of Art, according to Baltimore Fishbowl. INPHL Developmentof Wyndmoor, Pa., is seeking approval from Baltimore’s zoning board toconstruct the building, which would be one of the first new market-rate housingdevelopments to rise on North Avenue in years. INPHL’s infill proposal is yet anothersign that development activity is heating up in Baltimore’s Station North Artsand Entertainment District. According to plans on file with the zoning board,the proposed structure would have 1,640 square feet of ground-floor retailspace and 52 apartments above, but no on-site parking. The apartments would beone-bedroom and studio units. Alexander Design Studio would be the architect.
Jared Kushnersays Trump Middle East peace plan will be unveiled in June
The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan will be unveiled in June, White House special adviser Jared Kushner said. Kushner, one of the main authors of the plan, told a group of about 100 ambassadors in Washington, D.C., that the plan will be made public after a new government is formed in Israel and following the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends on June 5, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed source familiar with the remarks. “We will all have to look for reasonable compromises that will make peace achievable,” Kushner, President Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, also said during his address April 17 at Blair House, according to the report. Kushner told the ambassadors that the plan will require concessions from both Israel and the Palestinians and will not jeopardize Israel’s security, according to the report. He also said the plan has a “very detailed” political component; it will also have an economic component. The new Palestinian Authority prime minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging hour-long interview published April 17 that the plan will be “born dead.”–JTA
Time’s 100 most influential
Timemagazine’s list of the 100 most influential people includes Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; Jennifer Hyman, whose $1billion company Rent the Runway allows subscribers to rent designer clothingonline; and Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, who started the progressive activismgroup Indivisible. Additionally, Dr. Leana Wen,Baltimore’s former health commissioner and current Planned Parenthood leader,also made the list under the leaders category.
Read more: Jewish People on the Time 100 Most Influential List
2 Jewish womenpledge $122M to Notre Dame
Two Jewish women have pledged between them $122 million toward the restoration of Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral, which was ravaged in a fire. Lily Safra, a Brazilian Jewish philanthropist, said she would give $22 million to fund the restoration efforts of the iconic church, which was badly damaged in a devastating fire on April 15, Correio 24 Horas reported. And Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the French billionaire owner of L’Oreal, pledged another $100 million, according to CBS. The two women’s donations account for about 17 percent of the $700 million collected so far for the restoration. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers announced the donation on Twitter, following French President Emmanuel Macron’s call on philanthropists to help collect funds for the operation. Her father, Andre Bettencourt, wrote numerous articles for two pro-Nazi publications during World War II, one of which was financed by the Nazi government in Germany. Bettencourt Meyers married Jean-Pierre Meyers, a French Jewish businessman descended from a family of rabbis, and converted to Judaism. Bettencourt Meyers has led and donated to interfaith initiatives connecting Christians and Jews.
Read more: 2 Jewish women pledge $122 million toward restoring Notre Dame
Also see: Despite Notre Dame’s Blaze, We’ll Always Have Paris
Passover Primer 2019
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