Currently Browsing: March 2012

Brava Marie!

“Sholem Aleichem’s Women” From Intro: “I have 5 daughters,” brays Tevye in the opening moments of the beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof. “I have 5 daughters!” Close your eyes and I’ll bet you can summon Zero Mostel’s voice—Zero Mostel’s voice as we can all still hear it on Fiddler’s Original Cast Album—an album originally […]

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Ha Hov

Wikipedia: “A debt is an obligation owed by one party (the debtor) to a second party, (the creditor); usually this refers to assets granted by the creditor to the debtor, but the term can also be used metaphorically to cover moral obligations and other interactions not based on economic value.” 3/15/12 UPDATE: Last September I […]

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FOOTNOTE Teaser

On Sunday February 26, Israeli director Joseph Cedar was in LA. His new film Footnote (winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2011 & nine Ophir Awards from the Israel Film Academy in September 2011) was a candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Kol Yisrael watched with pride that […]

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Women Unchained

From March ’12 Spotlight: On Sunday, March 11, Spertus Institute will host the local premiere of Women Unchained, a new “Get-o-nomics 101″ documentary by Chicago filmmaker Beverly Siegel. When the husband of a married woman refuses to grant her a Jewish divorce (called a “get” in Hebrew), she is referred to as “agunah” (“anchored/chained”). Sometimes this emotional […]

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Marie Waife-Goldberg

From March ’12 Spotlight: Also on March 11 (but a few hours earlier), I’ll be doing a Women’s History Month program of my own down at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. The subject is “Sholem Aleichem’s Women: A Tribute to Marie Waife-Goldberg.” Waife-Goldberg, the youngest of Solomon Rabinowitz’ daughters, was the author of My […]

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Hip-Hop Miri

From March ’12 Spotlight: Last month, I told you how much I loved Miri Ben-Ari’s CD The Trip to Beautiful. So with mellow jazz in mind, I headed to her concert at Lincoln Hall in February. But what a surprise-Ben-Ari has now transformed herself into a hip-hop artist, using her dazzling violin skills in the […]

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The World Was Ours

From March ’12 Spotlight: On Feb 2, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie hosted a screening of The World Was Ours: The Jewish Community of Vilna before Its Destruction in World War IIwith special guest Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren. The SRO crowd included several local survivors of the Vilna ghetto who are now ILHEC […]

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March ’12 Spotlight

CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH! On Sunday, March 11, Spertus Institute will host the Chicago premiere of Women Unchained, a new “Get-o-nomics 101” documentary by Skokie filmmaker Beverly Siegel. When the husband of a married woman refuses to grant her a Jewish divorce (called a “get” in Hebrew), she is referred to as “agunah” (“anchored/chained”). Sometimes […]

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