Afghan Fund Launched As Orphans Visit New York
With the American presence in Afghanistan shaken in the horrific wake of Quran burnings, the death of innocent civilians and indications that the Amer...
With the American presence in Afghanistan shaken in the horrific wake of Quran burnings, the death of innocent civilians and indications that the Amer...
Jim Luce | Posted 08.27.2011
A sea change in New York. Although I have attended the NYC Pride Parade since 1983 -- many as a marshal -- this one was different.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Manjushree Orphanage, she explained to us, is in the village of Tawang, located at the foot of the Himalayas where there has long been a border dispute between China and India.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
9/11 brings back haunting memories. Having buried by brother and mother almost back-to-back just before 9/11, losing all three of my life-long mentor...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still ...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) unveiled its new website, the third since its founding in 1999. I created the first, which was indeed primitiv...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011
Fifty selected guests were invited this week to a "one-day-art-event: Nourishment for the Soul" in New York. Hosted by the Comune di Milano and EXPO2...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
We first met French Contemporary Artist CharlElie Couture at the French Embassy in New York for the Wynton Marsalis ceremony in the fall of 2009. He ...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The Cecilia Attias Foundation for Women (CAFW) hosted its first "Dialogue for Action" last week in New York City. In short, the event dedicated to he...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The just-launched Jim Luce Stewardship Report has just endorsed its first two candidates for the New York State Assembly -- and is throwing a party to...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The Indo-American Arts Council threw a purposefully decadent, fun-filled party last week for the new book Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema by Ira ...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The latest offering from the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troup (AGDT), Juntos ('United'), was triumphant. I was particularly impressed with the strengt...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
On Thought Leaders and Global Citizens. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, representing Manhattan's Upper East Side, Roosevelt Island, and Wester...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
I first met Ambassador Sichan Siv in 2004. He spoke on surviving Pol Pot's Killing Fields in Cambodia - and coming to America. He ended up working in the White House and then the United Nations.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Orphans International Sri Lanka was founded in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami. Now fully trained, the staff are beginning their own program for the children of Unawatuna.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.22.2012