Take Away Spring

Take Away Spring

Take Away Spring Gera Sandler put to gether this memorial of the Warsaw ghetto uprising using Zvi Kolitz’s “Yosl Rakover Speaks To God “interspersed with song and poetry, From left to right: Macha Fogel, Eli Rosen, Gera Sandler, David Mandelbaum, Amy...
gunkel

gunkel

One of my favorite characters. Gunkel, from Hanoch Levin’s Labor Of...
The Big Bupkis

The Big Bupkis

 Photo Source: George Xenos   Review: Backstage Shane Bertram Baker’s one-man show, written with director Allen Lewis Rickman, may claim to be a guide for gentiles, but it really instructs his primarily Jewish audience on how a Missouri goy came to be...
Death Of A Salesman

Death Of A Salesman

Drama Desk nominations for: Best Revival Best Actor   THE FORWARD Yiddish Breathes New Life Into ‘Death of a Salesman’ Ezra GlinterOctober 16, 2015 Is “Death of a Salesman” a Jewish play? Is Willy Loman, its main character, Jewish? The question has...
Yosl Rakover Speaks To God

Yosl Rakover Speaks To God

KIRKUS REVIEW A remarkable testament to faith in the face of suffering. Zvi Kolitz is a Lithuanian Jew who left Europe in 1940 for Jerusalem, where he built a life as a daring Zionist freedom fighter. Just over a year after WWII ended, he wrote a gut-wrenching short...