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Krista Lark Slater wanted to be a museum curator. At least, thatâs what she thought when she was in college. Instead, she took her artistic background in a different, more refreshing direction â into the world of wine.
Lark Slater is a certified sommelier, or wine professional, and has worked for years in the restaurant industry, but she has only recently begun to pursue one of her passion projects. She opened The Lark Winespace on Prince Avenue last fall, and while itâs her newest venture, itâs far from her first. The Lark is one entry in a long list of her work at different establishments and her second business in Athens.
Norwood Special Town Meeting, first night: community preservation projects get OK
Caitlyn McGoff, Correspondent
During the first night of a Special Town Meeting, Norwood residents voted to approve several financial items and community preservation projects.
The meeting, held entirely via Zoom for the Town Meeting members and simultaneously broadcast on Norwood Community Media, was held this past Thursday, Feb. 4. The first 10 articles on the warrant were discussed, and all passed with a majority of votes. The remaining articles will be discussed at the meeting’s continuation on Monday, Feb. 8.
In order to vote, Town Meeting members raised their hands virtually on Zoom and the number of for and against votes were counted, as opposed to the typical voice vote held during in-person Town Meetings.
By Jerome Slater
495 pp. Oxford University Press. $29.95
Professor Jerry Slater is 85 years old, has taught truths about Israel and Palestine for 50 years, and set himself a monumental task in this book.
He does not just cover the
Israel-Palestine conflict, but takes on myths about Israel’s relations with the surrounding Arab states, and the role of the United States. The result is a masterpiece, the successful work of a lifetime.
Slater presents his own personal and intellectual odyssey, in a brief but compelling
Prologue:
Like almost all Jews of my generation, coming of age in America in the 1940s, immediately after the Holocaust and with Anti-Semitism still alive in this country I thought of myself as a passionate Zionist and rejoiced over the establishment of the state of Israel and its 1948 and 1967 victories over its Arab enemies.
Dear liberal Zionist friends,
We’ve been friends for a while in a cordial but wary way, and as this tumultuous year ends, I wanted to appeal to you to change your stance. While your attitudes are well-meaning and and even idealistic, you have done nothing to change Israel’s conduct in some 40 years now; and the fact that you have not altered your messaging beyond Frustrated Wheedling with some Anger thrown in now and then is deeply disappointing to me.
The sad truth is that: You have no program at all for ending the occupation, you just hope Israel will change.