February 26, 2002

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has announced (Toronto Star, Globe and Mail) that a design by Daniel Libeskind has won the competition for the rebuilding of the Museum. Described as encasing the ROM in an iceberg it involving replacing the northern Bloor St. side with a new angular glass entrance. The cost for the reconstruction which is the centerpiece of the Renaissance ROM Project is estimated at $200 million, Canadian with public and private funds being used. Libeskind’s previous works include the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Kind of cool, now Toronto joins the Edifice Complex movement. 9:43:54 PM     The Jerusalem Post reports on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s reaction when Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's denied there was a problem of anti-Semitism in France, something they said was at odds to the occurrence of attacks on Jewish synagogues and children. 9:33:58 PM

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