Israel increasingly worried about Syria – Video
Posted By simmons on May 2, 2013
Israel increasingly worried about Syria Israel #39;s leaders are increasingly worried about Syria.
Menachem Begin A New Israel Jewish History Lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson – Video
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Menachem Begin A New Israel Jewish History Lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson A study of the life of Menachem Begin (1913-1992).
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Israel Novaes – Marrom Bombom (Lançamento 2013) – Video
Posted By simmons on May 1, 2013
Israel Novaes - Marrom Bombom (Lanamento 2013) Nova msica do cara do arrocha Israel Novaes. By: Polyana Ferreira
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Livingbreadchurch : Kerajaan Baru Malaysia dan Permulaan Hubungan Dengan Israel – Video
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Livingbreadchurch : Kerajaan Baru Malaysia dan Permulaan Hubungan Dengan Israel Livingbreadchurch : Kerajaan Baru Malaysia dan Permulaan Hubungan Dengan Israel. By: mega bidaman
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Spotlight on entertainment — May is Jewish American Heritage Month
Posted By richards on May 1, 2013
By Judie Jacobson
Celebrated in May, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is a national month of recognition of the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture acknowledging the achievements of Jewish Americans in fields ranging from sports and arts and entertainment to medicine, business, science, government and military service.
This year, JAHM is devoted to the theme entertainment. The history of American entertainment and the history of the Jewish people in the United States are inextricably intertwined. Immigrant Jewish entrepreneurs or their sons like Sam Goldwyn, Jack and Harry Warner, Louis B. Mayer were integral to the creation of Hollywood. Jews were once the heads simultaneously of the three major American television networks: William Paley at CBS, David Sarnoff at NBC and Leonard Goldenson at ABC.
Jews now comprise about two percent of the nations population. Yet, today about two-thirds of leading TV and movie producers are estimated to be Jewish, and thus the impact of Jews upon the nations popular culture has been immeasurable.
The list of names of Jews in entertainment is too vast to include here. A few examples of Jews who have provided Broadway and Hollywood with some of their most enduring talent include playwrights like Arthur Miller and Wendy Wasserstein; directors like Jerome Robbins, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg; composers like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim; and performers like the Marx Brothers, Lenny Bruce, Dustin Hoffman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart and Barbra Streisand.
With this issue, we begin a month-long look at some of those working in the field of entertainment who grew up and often began their love affair with the stage in Connecticuts Jewish communities.
Remy Zaken
Hometown: Weston
Remy Zakens professional acting career started at age nine when she landed the role of Annie in Annie Warbucks, the sequel to Annie, at the Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport. That was soon followed by a national tour revival of E.L. Doctorows Ragtime, and a New York debut Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in the role of Rini in George C. Wolfes Radiant Baby, a play detailing the life of artist Keith Haring. Zaken is perhaps best known as one of the youngest cast members in the original Broadway production of Spring Awakening at the Eugene ONeill Theatre, playing the role of Thea from 2006 to 2008. She had the title role in Off-Broadways Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical, which ran from 2010 to 2012. A graduate of Columbia University with a BA in psychology, she appears in the upcoming short film Sing Along.
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Curtain Up: New Haven explores the art of Jewish theater
Posted By richards on May 1, 2013
By Cindy Mindell
WOODBRIDGE First there was Yiddish theater, and then the iconic English-language works: Fiddler on the Roof, The Diary of Anne Frank, anything by Neil Simon.
But what has happened to Jewish theater since the 70s? The Jewish Plays Project (JPP), the brainchild of Manhattan-based theater artist David Winitsky, is one way to find out.
Founded in 2011, the JPP is an incubator for new plays on Jewish themes and contemporary Jewish experience. The JPP is hosted by a JCC or synagogue that mounts a playwriting competition whose submissions are reviewed by a local committee and whittled down to three finalists. Those works are staged for an audience who votes on a favorite, and the winner gets a month-long performance residency and workshop inNew York.
Michael Bradley Cohen and Bill DeMerritt in Jim Shankmans A Jew from east Jesus at the JPPs NJ Jewish Playwriting Contest
Now the JPP is coming to New Haven, sponsored by JCC of Greater New Haven and produced by DeDe Jacobs-Kamisar, cultural arts manager and founder of the JCCs new Theaterworks division. Jacobs-Kamisar, who earned a Masters degree in theater management from the Yale School of Drama (YSD) last year, is joined in JPP by fellow YSD alumni and current students, including review committee members MJ Kaufman (13), Whitney Dibo (14), and Reuven Russell (87), and actors Bill Demeritt (12) and Adina Verson (12). The project is co-sponsored in New Haven by Michael and Jo-Ann Price and the JCC Cultural Arts Advisory Board, headed by playwright Doron Ben-Atar, who heads the Fordham University history department.
From January through March, each member of the JPP review committee read and ranked the 10 play submissions independently, then gathered to debate which selections would be the most appropriate, according to Ben-Atar.
Appropriate is not about taste, he says. We selected three very different pieces that represent three very different Jewish plays not in a traditional sense, not Jewish shtick or about a kind of coming back to religion or secularizing a Jewish theme. Rather, each has a dynamic fabulous story in its own right that unfolds in a surprising fashion.
Whats really wonderful about this project, in my mind, is that it changes the experience of going to theater, says Ben-Atar. As an audience, we are primarily passive: we applaud, laugh, or fall asleep. Theater has been sterilized to a great degree in the Western world; it used to be more interactive. By participating in the production and selection process, the JPP audience is empowered.
One of the most encouraging and yet depressing elements of the theater world is that there are multiple Jewish writers and authors who write interesting and wonderful things that never see the stage, says Ben-Atar. Thats part of the plight of many writers the stuff that gets performed very often is not the best stuff but rather, artistic directors choose works that had previous success or appeal to a broad audience. The Jewish Plays Project demonstrates that there are hundreds of people writing Jewish plays and many of them are excellent.
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Israel Novaes – Marrom Bombom – Lançamento 2013. – Video
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Israel Novaes - Marrom Bombom - Lanamento 2013. O cara do arrocha!! A primeira lanada no youtube. By: Caiuzinho Augusto
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‘West lets Israel play with nukes so Egypt quits talks’ – Video
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#39;West lets Israel play with nukes so Egypt quits talks #39; Israel #39;s alleged cache of nuclear arms is in the spotlight again. Egypt withdrew from Non-Proliferation Treaty talks in Geneva on Monday, over the failure to..
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The Fountainheads band from Israel in Charlotte (Beatle selections) – (Video #13 of 15) – Video
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The Fountainheads band from Israel in Charlotte (Beatle selections) - (Video #13 of 15) The Israeli YouTube sensation The Fountainheads, from Israel, headed up the festive event at Israel @ 65 Charlotte. This video has The Beatles tunes
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Pope Francis to visit Israel: Pontiff accepts Israeli President’s invitation at Vatican meeting – Video
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Pope Francis to visit Israel: Pontiff accepts Israeli President #39;s invitation at Vatican meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres has met Pope Francis at the Vatican, making him one of the first world leaders to visit the pontiff, who took office last mont... By: JewishNewsOne
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