From: shalominternational
Sent: Apr 6, 2008 7:25 PM
To: mb
Cc: caringjew@aol.com
Subject: Holocaust survivor helps us protest Abbas/PLO
Dear New Yorkers: We met at the United Jerusalem Rally at the Armory on 168th St.. You were kind enough to get our stickers and buttons and give us your name. Now we have the enclosed project below and want to know if you can help us here as well. We are looking to bring a busload from NY to D.C. to protest Abbas and PLO. Please let us know if you can be with us and if not would you be able to sponsor someone who could come?
Please look at the info below and send out to your networks. Many thanks and Shalom,
Dear "Chosen" Activists:
We are escalating this event on 4/24/08, as 2nd only to the "Annapolis War
Summit", which we successfully led opposition to and so far we have done 28
rallies in 8 cities and 162 media as the conscience of our community.
Now, Mr. Abbas, who doesn't even support a Jewish State or even the Balfour
Declaration,(1917) is being welcomed to the White House by Bush/Rice anti-semites,
who have done everything possible to reward this Islamic Nazi and his ilk.
We will be at the White House at 9AM on 4/24/08. We are also putting a bus together
from NYC to join with us which will cost $20 per person. It will leave Brooklyn
at 2 AM and 3Am from NYC. You must write to us immediately that you want a seat
on this bus that will also be making history.
It is vital, in the middle of Pesach, for all of us to finally end this enslavement
and silence, on this most critical issue of our very survival.
When asking the Four Questions during the Seder, ask what you are doing about this
tragic sellout endangering us all.
Tragically, most of the Jewish organizations and groups have their heads in the
sand, are only making it worse with collaboration, capitulation and outright endorsement
of what are enemies are seeking.... such as the resolution last month from the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs, supposedly representing 14 major groups and 125 federation
types and in unison appeasing and crawling to the very forces who would destroy
them. If 85% of PA supports terrorism, we ask for the upteenth time: "How Do
You Make Peace With Those Who Want To Kill You?"
We are also looking to do a march and 2P.M. rally at the illegal PLO Office at 1320
18th St., Wash., D.C. for Rice allowing this murderous terrorist group bent on Israel's
destruction. PLO/Fatah/Abbas/Hamas/Hezbollah.....it's all the same poison. Why
is the Bush policy to 'war on terrorism' being ignored for these terrorists,
anymore than Abbas is given a pass as somehow better than Hamas?
Congress mandated downgrading the PLO but Bush/Rice keep propping them up. Why?
Other 'events' are also being considered and are in the planning stages.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
At Pesach we remember going from slavery into liberation, yet so many of our 'so-called
leaders' are still wandering, wondering and are enslaved, as if they will never
get it on how to really be free from Arab Nazi terror, dominance, intimidation and
mass murder. Why don't these Jews have any self respect and why do they keep
repeating the mistakes of the past?
Your mitzvah at this critical moment is to make these events with us, a highly visible
one, peaceful and with purpose.... to say that we support a Jewish State with Jerusalem
as its Eternal Capital and no land for peace nonsense which has only brought war
and death to thousands of Jews sold out by their fellow Jews to play this oil game
with Saudi Arabia, the US State Dept. and Bush/Rice/Olmert betrayers and no funding
of the Islamic Nazi terrorists from Abbas/Hamas, etc.
If you cannot be there, then sponsor a seat on the bus for someone who can go.
Help us make this a critically important event and use this opportunity to share
with the world on how you feel and what you are going to do about this insanity
we are all facing.
Please go to: www.defendjerusalem.net and donate via paypal or send a check to:
"Defend Jerusalem", P.O.Box 402263,, Miami Beach, Fla. 33140.
Please put this message out to all of your networks in this emergency.
It is very important to read the enclosed message from Israel on "Where Is
American Jewry" and also to send the enclosed petition to Sen. John McCain.
Now here is also wonderful news. Below is Eva's web page> Eva is 83 years young, a Holocaust survivor and who with Buddy Macy held two key rallies for us in NY to "Defend Jerusalem" at the Israeli Consulate, and in freezing cold weather. I'm also enclosing a biography for her from a Chelsea newspaper.
Eva wants to help us. If you go into this website of hers, you'll see some of the most magnificent art she has made and is willing to give us $20 of the $40 for each print. If you can afford the whole set it would be fantastic and also you would have some of the best art in the world.
Please make this happen for Eva, for yourselves and for us. We are most grateful that Eva is a fighter, our role-model, doesn't give up and shows us the way to have gone through so much and yet gives us so much beauty and inspiration.
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Volume 2, Number 16 | The Weekly Newspaper of Chelsea | January 18 - 24, 2007
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>Penn South resident and painter Eva Deutsch Costabel fields a question from the audience after presenting a slide show of her art recently.
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>Penn South painter perseveres through thick and thin
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>By Edward Rueda
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>Art helped sustain local painter Eva Deutsch Costabel through her darkest times. During World War II, when Nazi soldiers took over her house in Yugoslavia at gunpoint, Costabel could only take away one knapsack but included her watercolors, pencils and ink. Later, when she was taken to a concentration camp, Costabel used those art supplies to make greeting cards for her fellow inmates.
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>More than six decades later, the 83-year-old artist still paints every day in her Penn South apartment in Chelsea. The finished paintings hang in her hallway, which serves as an impromptu gallery. The living room doubles as a studio, with her easel and acrylic paints placed next to a window that faces her beloved Empire State Building.
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>âI love New York City at night,â said Costabel, who paints New York in a semi-abstract way, transforming the lit skyscrapers into a flashy grid. But Costabelâs flamboyant color choices, including bright pinks and fluorescent yellows, stem from distant childhood memories of bright peasant dresses in the markets of her native Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia).
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>As a girl in Zagreb, young Costabel, then Eva Deutsch, was trained by her Viennese-born parents to have an eye for design, and eventually run her motherâs dress shop. Costabelâs happy childhood abruptly ended at age 16, when the Nazi occupation marked her Jewish family as targets of persecution. Her father, Arnold Deutsch, was arrested and eventually killed in the Treblinka concentration camp, a loss that Costabel still deeply mourns today.
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>The rest of the Deutsch family was transported to Italian concentration camps on the Adriatic coast. When the Italians capitulated in 1943, the majority of the inmates were sent to Auschwitz, but Costabel and her mother and sister joined a small group that escaped on a tugboat and reached partisan-occupied Serbian territory. Filled with renewed hope, Costabel joined the partisan forces, worked as an army nurse and drew intimate pictures of the Serbian peasantsâ lives.
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>Costabel used these wartime drawings to open a slide lecture on her lifeâs work held on Dec. 20 at Penn South Program for Seniors, a Chelsea senior center. Costabel remembered how she used the backs of old letters and official documents for drawing paper, and how resistance soldiers sought her out to draw their portraits to send to girlfriends.
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>âIt was my first taste of fame,â joked Costabel.
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>The Communist regime in Yugoslavia proved to be rabidly anti-Semitic, forcing the Deutsch family to leave for Italy, where Costabel studied fine art in Rome before seeking refuge in the United States. Shortly after arriving in New York on June 10, 1949, Costabel began her career as a package designer and studied under Franz Kline, the famous abstract expressionist painter.
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>Kline introduced Costabel to the world of abstraction, and for several decades Costabel would paint after her workday, creating enigmatic, geometric paintings well into the night. This artwork augmented Costabelâs therapy, helping her to come to terms with feelings of loss and guilt as a Holocaust survivor.
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>âPainting helped me,â said Costabel. âAs a young woman, I had to make a choice to buy paints or a new dress. So, I wore my sisterâs old clothes.â
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>For the past 14 years, Costabel has lived in semi-retirement in Penn South, where her artwork has thrived. As shown in her hour-long lecture, Costabel can paint in several styles, depending on her mood. Her range includes realistic portraits and still lifes, illustrative landscapes, and calligraphic doodles that she transforms into abstract mosaics of color. Her art recalls the textures of Van Gogh, the decorative flair of Klimt and the playfulness of Paul Klee. (Her work can be seen at www.evadeutschdesign.com.)
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>Costabel closed her lecture for the Penn South Program with her recent paintings of Israel, which has been a haven for her extended family since the 1930s. Her familiarity and love for the Israeli landscape comes through in her depictions of ancient stone villages, complete with lush palm trees and fiery desert skies. Costabel last toured Israel in May with âIsrael Always,â an evangelical Christian group from Charleston, S.C., that she met through mutual friends. Costabel was impressed by the groupâs concern for bombed Israeli villages and, in reaction, painted the stormy landscape âIsrael Under Siege,â which referenced bombings in the Israeli town of Sderot. The âIsrael Alwaysâ evangelicals invited Costabel to Charleston in October, where she raffled the original canvas for $4,000 to help build bomb shelters in Israel.
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>Costabelâs wide-ranging lecture on her art and personal history was part of âShow and Share,â a program where Penn South residents can share their passions and talents and reinvigorate their fellow co-op residents of advanced age.
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>Sandi Sacks, the group service coordinator for Penn South Program, met Costabel in the centerâs painting class and immediately invited her to prepare a talk. âAt any age we can expand our horizons and grow, and our members are an example of that,â said Sacks.
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>Eva Deutsch Costabel, as she tries to expand her own horizons, feels that her best work is yet to come. âIâm still developing,â Costabel said. âTo develop a style, you need maturity. Iâm glad at my age I didnât dry out like a prune.â
