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ZAZ10TS PRESENTS FRACTURED BY YULI ALONI PRIMOR Rewriting the feminine through fracture and transformation

Austin Tang — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:44:21 +0000

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ZAZ10TS Gallery presents Fractured, a solo
exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Yuli Aloni
Primor, on view March 26 – June 21, 2026, in
Times Square. Installed in the gallery and
extending into the public sphere through the
ZAZ Corner digital billboard in Times Square,
the exhibition places an intimate visual language
within the accelerated rhythm of public urban
space. The two contexts exist in productive
friction: the private made monumental, the
monumental made vulnerable. The exhibition
extends from gallery space into one of the
world’s most visible urban screens.
The work draws on two traditions of repair—Kintsugi, the Japanese practice in which broken
ceramics are reconstituted with gold so the fracture becomes its most radiant element, and
Tikkun, the Jewish ethical imperative to mend a broken world. Together, they form a politics of
visibility: an insistence that the seam be acknowledged rather than erased.
Working between digital technologies and oil painting, Aloni Primor constructs a feminine
mythology suspended between personal history and cultural narrative, between psychological
interiority and public surface. Identity here is neither stable nor given. It is continually
negotiated, fractured, and rebuilt through the tension between external expectation and inner
experience.
As the artist reflects, “The fracture is not failure. It is where the interior becomes visible—where
the private mythology of a woman presses outward into form.”
Within a city that continues, almost against its own velocity, to insist on gestures of human
presence, Fractured proposes that repair is not restoration. It is transformation, and the
fracture, made visible, becomes the work itself.
Alongside the gallery exhibition, the work will also be programmed on the ZAZ Corner
Billboard as part of the In Between programming from March 26 to April 24, 2026. Displayed in
15-second intervals on a large LED screen at the intersection of 41st Street and 7th Avenue,
the work enters the visual landscape of Times Square, introducing moments of reflection.
ZAZ10TS GALLERY · 10 Times Square (1441 Broadway) · New York, NY 10018 · www.zaz10ts.com
Exhibition Page: www.zaz10ts.com/fractured
Contact: Limei Wang, Director, ZAZ10TS | limei@zaz10ts.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Yuli Aloni Primor is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, video, and
installation. Her practice explores identity, memory, and technological transformation through
a feminist lens. A Scholar-in-Residence at Silver Art Projects, she has exhibited widely and
examines fracture and repair in shaping feminine mythologies. https://yulialoni.com
ABOUT ZAZ10TS
ZAZ10TS is a cultural initiative that brings art into the public sphere at 10 Times Square in New
York City. Through exhibitions in the building’s lobby, the ZAZ10TS Gallery showcases artists of
all backgrounds and abilities. ZAZ Corner, a dedicated program, features artwork on its façade
billboard in the heart of Times Square. Conceived by Tzili Charney, its mission is to integrate
art into public spaces and daily life. www.zaz10ts.com
QUICK FACTS:
Fractured: Yuli Aloni Primor
Date: March 26 – June 21, 2026
Address: ZAZ10TS Gallery
10 Times Square, 1441 Broadway
New York, NY 10018
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 26, 6:00–8:00 PM
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/2rajuvzp

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Rabbi Cantor Estherleon Schwartz has a book signing at the Grove in LA on

Austin Tang — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:41:47 +0000

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Biography

In 1948 a little girl 7 years old came to America with her mother and father on the Queen Mary with hundreds of other refugees. Nearing the shores of New York, she saw a tiny statue in the water. Everyone on the boat became very quiet and started softly singing prayers of gratitude, kneeling down to kiss the ground. The little girl couldn’t stop looking at the beautiful statue. As they got closer and closer, it seemed as if this beautiful woman with a wand so tall and strong was smiling at her and was saying something good to her. It reminded her of when her father threw her over the barbwire fence in 1944 at the Swiss border, looking up to the heavens he said, “Save my daughter and she will always serve you.” This little girl always knew in her heart her destiny had been chosen. Believing fervently that we are all connected, visionary Cantor Estherleon, for many years, has been bringing all faiths and cultures together for a deeper understanding of each other.

Poverty has a particularly strong meaning to Estherleon. A child Holocaust survivor, she has endured the poverty of food, shelter, safety and thoughts when she was on the run from the Nazi’s for the first 4 years of her life finally escaping in 1944 to Switzerland. Sheltered by nuns in convents through parts of this period, she didn’t realize until now that the DNA of the church music would ultimately play a big role in the Jewish music she sings as a cantor. Her gifted and compassionate voice has been chronicled in numerous testimonials.

Life’s challenges saw her rise from welfare to riches, which she gave up, after a family tragedy. She became a Cantor, a female in a male’s world. She survived that, then decided “Against all odds” (CCN News) to take her administering to the people, founding 3 storefront spiritual reading rooms for all people, religions and cultures, in the process creating Beth Shirah (House of Song). She has always seen challenges as a gift to the higher spirit echoing the survival of her earliest years. She is now welcomed by the Buddhist at the Hsi Lai Temple, the Baha’i Faith the Braille Institute and healing centers. She tirelessly administers to the sick through her voice, as a volunteer Para-Chaplain at a renowned hospital in Los Angeles. Voices of Hope is her dedication to the immense insurmountable challenges to see the end of poverty in her lifetime. Her music, and poetry will bring people into the fold of caring, through nurturing and compassion. Her determination is unshakable.

The children are our future, what better way to receive than to give them life through our deepest caring. Their poverty is our poverty, and our shame. We have to listen to their voices of hope.

Mission

I am very grateful to have the honor of fulfilling my father’s prophesy in 1944 at the Swiss border when the Nazis were chasing us. I was 4 years old and when he threw me over the barbed wire fence he said, “Save my daughter and she will serve you forever.” It has been a painful, tiring yet inspirational journey in reaching my goal to have a deeper understanding of myself, my purpose in life, in relationship to the world around me. One thing I always hung on to were my father’s words of serving, so I “hung out” with God, asked for guidance, tried to have patience and faith which gave me hope and wisdon to understand that everything is in divine time. You are my voice of hope on earth to ensure that no human being goes to bed hungry, has a warm bed to sleep in, medicine, education, a fruitful and meaningful life, and a way to peace – in a peaceful way. Together, and with God’s blessings…everything is possible.

Cantor Estherleon Schwartz

Services

INTERFAITH CEREMONIES

PERFORMING ALL LIFE CYCLES

HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITS

HIGH HOLY DAYS, PASSOVER AND SHABBATS

#EstherleonSchwartz #GoodShabbos

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BAD NEWS….Suspects in killing of 15 people at Bondi Beach named — as ‘real-life hero’ bystander identified

Austin Tang — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:57:16 +0000

Prayer for the Jewish People as shared by Rabbi Joshua Stanton

As we kindle our Advent lights, we know that it is Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. We hold in our hearts and our prayers the whole House of Israel, who once again have been subjected to an unspeakable assault, this time in Sydney, Australia while celebrating their sacred holiday. May our lights brighten these dark times and our faith inspire us to turn our prayers to acts of friendship and solidarity with the Jewish People.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/bondi-beach-gunshots-reported-12-14-25

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Dr. David Weill, author of TELL ME I BELONG: A Journey Across Faiths and Generations (Union Square & Co.; December 9, 2025)

Austin Tang — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:29:38 +0000

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“In this fascinating and personal book, Dr. David Weill takes us on a journey to understand his Jewish identity and heritage. It can be a guide for anyone who is searching for an elusive sense of belonging.”

—Walter Isaacson

A heartfelt memoir about the search for religion and identity

“I’m not Jewish.” For years, that’s what David Weill told anyone who asked about his religious background. Yes, his father was a Jew who had left Nazi Germany as a boy. But his mother was a Southern Baptist. Growing up in New Orleans, religion wasn’t something his family discussed, let alone practiced. As an adult, he developed a fervent zeal and profound devotion to his work as a specialist in organ transplants. Transplantation was all he needed to define and fulfill him—until a crisis shook him to the core.

As a boy, Weill’s only experience with religion was when he accompanied Deborah, the family’s domestic help and his second mother figure, to her all-Black Baptist church. As a young doctor, he fell in love with Jackie, a nurse from rural Iowa and a devout Catholic. Much to the chagrin of her parents, they were married in a Dallas hotel rather than a church. After settling in Palo Alto, close to Stanford University Medical Center where Weill headed the heart and lung transplant program, their two daughters were baptized and confirmed at a local Catholic church. When his oldest daughter, Hannah, was around ten and asked him why he never joined them at mass on Sundays, he told her, “I’m not Catholic.” She looked at him, brow furrowed, and raised a question that would prove to haunt him, “What are you then?”

TELL ME I BELONG follows David Weill’s search for the answer. In 2015, after the simultaneous unraveling of his carefully crafted career and the death of his father, Weill began to doubt everything, including his purpose in life. While grappling with emotional pain and sinking deeper into despair, he began to suffer perplexing physical symptoms. In his moment of crisis, he was seized by a strong desire to practice a formal religion. But for Weill, the real question was, Which religion? Eventually, he chose Catholicism and was baptized at age fifty. He found solace in heart-to-heart talks with a priest and his daughters’ happiness at having the whole family at church together. Everything was fine—until 2020, when he learned that his mother had converted to Judaism right before marrying his father. He was born a Jew. And in the eyes of the Jewish faith, he would always be Jewish. That realization sparked his second quest. In an interview, David can talk about:

· What drew his mother, a native of Selma, Alabama, to Judaism—partly because, to quote her, Jews “always seemed like such practical people,” and largely as a rejection of Baptists who preached love for all God’s children and practiced racism.

· His father’s complicated sense of being Jewish, which he viewed as a source of pride for its association with smart and successful people while remaining wary of being ostracized or stigmatized for the religion he was born into.

· His determination, with the help of investigators, to learn more about his grandfather’s time imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and the role of his famous relative, the composer Kurt Weill, in orchestrating his family’s escape to the United States.

· His heart-wrenching trip to Berlin, accompanied by his daughter Hannah, to find his father’s first home, and the inner work of defining himself.

Ultimately, David Weill made peace with who he is and where he belongs. “I am not turning away from Catholicism as much as I am embracing Judaism, because it is mine, always was,” he reflects. “It just took me a while to get there.”

DAVID WEILL, MD, is theformer Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Diseases and the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. A sought-after advisor to various transplant programs across the country, he also serves on the Board of TransMedics, a company focused on improving availability of donor organs. Dr. Weill has also served on several non-profit boards including the Tulane Medical School, Xavier University of Louisiana, SFJAZZ, the Isidore Newman School, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) Foundation, NextGen Personal Finance, and the Bellevue Literary Review. Dr. Weill’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Salon, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, STAT, the Washington Post, The Hill, LitHub, Tablet, The Times of Israel, TODAY.com, and the Los Angeles Times. His previous books include the memoir Exhale: Hope, Healing, and Life in Transplant (2021) and a novel, All That Really Matters (2024). He lives in New Orleans. For more information, please visit davidweill.com.

Social Media:

https://www.instagram.com/davidweillmd/

https://www.facebook.com/david.weill/about/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidweillmd/

TELL ME I BELONG

A Journey Across Faiths and Generations

By David Weill

Publication date: December 9, 2025

ISBN: 978-1454961833; $24.99 Hardcover

Union Square & Co.

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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Thoreau

Austin Tang — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:57:33 +0000

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The Great Nosh on Governor’s Island

Austin Tang — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:12:46 +0000

Summer picnic, packed with NYC’s best restaurants, exclusive chef collabs, immersive art, unexpected Jew-ish cultural connections, and sunshine.

Featuring never-before noshes from epic chef collabs, including:

Thai Diner x Katz’s Deli

Russ & Daughters x Morgenstern’s

Tatiana x Dickson’s Atoboy x Apollo Bagels

Dhamaka x Gertrude’s Hani’s x Breads Bakery

Caroline Schiff x Junior’s

Elbow Bread x Sunn’s

La Boîte x Slow Fires

Zahav x Dame

Eyal Shani x Jake Cohen

Also featuring pop-up wine bar from The Four Horsemen, Susan Alexandra’s “Summer Camp” beading workshop, “Grandmas Tent” hosted by Gail Simmons and Pati Jinich, and more!

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An American girl from Kansas that got a job in Washington , a modern inteligent and hard working girl

Austin Tang — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:29:55 +0000

An American girl from Kansas that got a job in Washington , a modern intelligent and hard working girl

A Christian boy from Jerusalem from a Christian family observing Cristian faith

In few day he was about to propose as he already had the ring

The killer Elias Rodriguez the son of a democrat in high rank that even went to the inauguration invited by Shummer , minority leader of the senate

It could have been any of us American

This couple can be anyone of us ! Rabby Noa from Kol Dorot went to that center anytime and he have common friends with that girl … here in the USA

All this terrorism effects any American now! The girl was not military of religious and he was a smart Christian boy

There only fault was to go to this party in Washington

The killer did not know where they work or what religion they have ! He just assumed … what a tragedy and the whole world should wake up against terrorism and corruption and the new communist’s Islandamism that promises them a fake Brotherhood in nothing to do with the reality

#justice #peace #love #safety

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Ari Ackerman is a successful serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, sports team owner, and powerful social media influencer.

Austin Tang — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:57:47 +0000

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Ari Ackerman is a successful serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, sports team owner, and powerful social media influencer. His entrepreneurial history includes being the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the very popular tech company Bunk1.com. Ari has been featured in dozens of media outlets including CNN, the Today Show, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Ari received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and an MBA with honors from Kellogg. His philanthropic endeavors included serving on multiple boards such as the JCRC, Hillel, UJA, JFNA and was the NYL Cabinet Co-chair for the Jewish Federations of North America. Notably, Ari has been honored by AIPAC, JCRC, Hampton Synagogue as “Father of the Year”, and was recently awarded the Beyond Duke Service and Leadership award from Duke University. For Baseball fans, he is also a partner and board member in the Derek Jeter led group that purchased the Miami Marlins in 2017.

#ariacker #ariackerman

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Join us! Carol Ostrow: “An Homage to the Visual and Performing Arts” February 12th ACTORS TEMPLE, NY- Arts also Paul Sladkus to perform

Austin Tang — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:50:18 +0000

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Philip Reissman and Carol Ostrow Present:

A Meaningful Monday Special Series
at The Actors’ Temple

Also, Paul Sladkus to perform!

Monday, February 12th, 2024 • 6:30-8:00pm

Please join us for:
“An Homage to the Visual and Performing Arts”

with readings, monologues, original musical performances, all from our professional community and absolutely magnificent, and original paintings & photographs for your enjoyment and sale.

Please bring your family and friends!!! This will be a fabulous experience into the talented and beautiful world of the arts that only New York can offer.

Tickets are $35 per person.

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NY, NY 10036

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#carolostrow #homage #performingarts #visualperformingarts #actorstemple #paulsladkus

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Sylvia Goldin, In spite of having pulmonary fibrosis, sings her heart out

Austin Tang — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:15:19 +0000

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#sylviagoldin #pulmonaryfibrosis #heartout #jewish

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