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No Life for Afghan Women
AAPA member Kami Rice, editor of AnthrowCircus.com, brought her neighbor in Caen, Raha Sepehr, to the Dissident Club in Paris Oct. 14 to call attention to the plight of women in Afghanistan. « The life of women? Finished ! » she told the assembled journalists and visitors assembled. « The Taliban wants to keep women … in the survival mode, the worst situation for a human being. » Ms. Sepehr…
Thierry Marx and the free cooking schools
Thierry Marx, the chef étoilé with a rags-to-riches story who in 2012 founded a network of free cooking schools -- 10 so far -- to boost the disadvantaged into employment and a sense of purpose, met with AAPA…
Ex-AAPA VP Michael Balter tells us about the $10-million defamation suit he is facing for his #MeToo reporting
The AAPA met with ex-VP Michael Balter on March 18 to hear about the $10-million defamation lawsuit he is fighting and the issues surrounding it. Michael was served with the suit last June by archeologist Danielle Kurin, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Victims, or survivors as they prefer to be called, allege she was complicit in her former husband’s sexual harassment…
French anti-Semitism 'first sign of a national crisis', Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur tells AAPA
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur of the Mouvement Libéral Juif de France told AAPA members of her own path to the rabbinate (she was ordained in New York because no French institution will ordain women rabbis), and discussed her…