Erica Brody
By Erica Brody
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News An Israeli Singer Takes Cancer Survivor Show on the Road
Israeli singer Tami Rimon once used her voice solely for entertaining — she has put out two albums in Israel and was known for making the rounds at formal functions and concert halls. But now, as a New York appearance last week made evident, Rimon’s performances have taken on a more serious tone. A hamsa…
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News Wending Through the World of Yidishkayt
Eve Sicular began drumming when she was 8. But it wasn’t until her senior year at Harvard — she got her bachelor’s in Russian history and literature — that she first heard klezmer. She followed the suggestion of a musician friend and checked out the Klezmer Conservancy Band. Her reaction? “Wow!” In 1989, Sicular attended…
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News A DANCE IN EIGHT COLORS
A colorful new dance from the Neta Dance Company brings to life a fictional young woman pieced together from documentary-style reminiscences in the quirky and original “Rainbow Girl.” The full-length work, making its world premiere at the Flea Theater, was choreographed and directed by Neta Pulvermacher, who was born and raised on Israel’s Kibbutz Lehavot…
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News OUT OF IRAQ: A DOCUMENTARY
Screening some 176 films over seven days at 11 venues, the second Tribeca Film Festival arrives May 7 in downtown Manhattan. With an array of offerings as diverse as the city itself, the festival was started last May in response to the September 11 attacks by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as…
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News A ZINE TO MAKE YOU PLOTZ
Publishing one’s own zine allows one to kvetch and kvell, rant and rave, race from one sentence to the next from high- to low-brow, sacred to profane then back again. Between 1995 and 2002, Barbara Rushkoff — Barbara Kligman until she married author Douglass Rushkoff — did just that, publishing 16 issues of her zine…
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News Picking the Perfect Passover Wine: Chilean Red With the Roast?
As the Seder draws near, Jews of all stripes become oenophiles, setting out to stores to choose the perfect wine for their Passover meals. As with the meals themselves, which by now include vegetarian and gourmet selections as well as the traditional brisket, kosher wine options have increased exponentially in recent years, leaving brains swimming…
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News FROM BATTLEFIELD TO BATTLEFIELD
Today’s “embedded” war correspondents are by no means the first to file from the front lines. Photographer Robert Capa (1913-1954) stood shoulder to shoulder with the rank and file in war after war, capturing on film the deaths, despair and surprising dignity found in trenches and on battlefields. With “Robert Capa: In Love and War”…
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News TALES OF THE TENEMENT
“The Golden Bear,” now at the Theater for the New City, is playwright Laurel Hessing’s adaptation of Michael Gold’s autobiographical novel about growing up on the Lower East Side, “Jews Without Money” (1930). The novel — which Hessing told the Forward she has kept to as “closely as I could” — doesn’t cast its gaze…
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