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Donna Schatz

Apr 1, 2025, 12:12 AM

The United Nations says Israel is stopping the women of Gaza from reproducing. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (plus East Jerusalem, and Israel) has accused Israel of targeting anything to do with maternity. Good...

Oct 26, 2024, 10:28 PM

Sharing a Lane

It was a second and telling. I could join her lane. I wouldn't be sitting like a grump in a vinyl chair, passive, while others swam, some hogging a lane, lifeguards not doubling us up. Her gesture was generous,...

Sep 28, 2024, 3:31 PM

Indifference etc.

I thought they'd left and I could continue forgetting them. They were friends, a couple from Cairo living in the US to improve their lives. Well-educated, both with master's degrees, they'd come to say goodbye before heading to another...

Aug 3, 2024, 4:06 PM

Abortion: Whose body is it?

Two oldsters squared off and squabbled over women's bodies. A septuagenarian and an octogenarian quarreled about control but it wouldn't have made a difference if 20 or 30-year-olds were at it. They were men, making the scene still more...

Jun 29, 2024, 1:17 AM

Women for Gaza

I caught her clip and was taken aback. From a Zoom meet of women's rights advocates against genocide, a Palestinian film director I'd worked, wined and dined with, described Gaza now although not there. I found out the following. This...

May 28, 2024, 8:00 AM

Getting a Winning Shot

Photographer Kevin Carter watched the vulture and the starving child crouched in the sand. A freelancer from South Africa, Carter was in Sudan to film the 1993 famine. When he got a good angle, bird in the background, child...

Mar 25, 2024, 3:22 AM

The Oscars Again!

They jumped for joy and I nearly did too. Godzilla Minus One had just won an Oscar for best visual effects and the creative team almost danced to the stage. This contrasted big time to my other fave of...

Mar 16, 2024, 11:10 AM

Judgement at Nuremberg: Still a must-see

MARLENE DIETRICH: You think we knew of those things? We did not know. SPENCER TRACY: Mrs. Bertholt, as far as I can make out no one knew. We have to forget to go on living, she continues, and fellow diners, taking...

Jan 24, 2024, 8:16 PM

Ridgewood, Queens

Ridgewood, a pocket of Queens I'd barely heard of growing up at the far end of the borough, borders two even more obscure to me names, Middle Village and Glendale. On the Myrtle Ave. subway line, Ridgewood, once farmland...

Dec 28, 2023, 11:04 PM

Tourist in Bethlehem

I’m reluctant to enter but my companion generously springs for the 20 shekel admission. I walk past the bellhop, a chimp statue in red, and go in, suspicious from the start, admittedly a closed frame of mind. The town...

About Me

Donna Schatz is a photographer, documentary producer and former TV camerawoman who worked in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon as well as Bosnia and the US.