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...wants to find his identity again. So he dumps his woman, takes his kid and heads for the Mediterranean homeland of his fathers. Along the way, he picks up an oversized wanderer named Aretha (Susan Sarandon) whose greatest claim is her ability to sing Jewish folk songs in both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting contented in his comfortable Manhattan apartment and wonder exactly what all the fuss was about...
...breaking his hip last November, Begin, 69, was working last week at his usual rigorous pace. He generally rises at 5 a.m., and for the next three hours, after breakfasting on sour milk, cold herring and tea (no lemon, milk or sugar, but some artificial sweetener), he reads four Hebrew-language daily newspapers and the English-language Jerusalem Post. Around 8 a.m., he is whisked to his office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really goes to work, a virtually nonstop whirligig of meetings throughout...
...says Albert Vorspan, vice president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, but his is not a popular view. Most American Jews are apprehensive, if not heartsick, about the anguished debate that has broken out inside their community on the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. The war in Lebanon, and Begin's brusque rejection of President Reagan's peace plan for the Middle East, have shattered a tradition that was already fraying: namely, that in times of crisis American Jews should repress any qualms they might have about the policies of an Israeli...
...when the New York Philharmonic opens its subscription season this week under Conductor Zubin Mehta, it does so with an eagerly sound. Reich orchestral premiere: Tehillim, an infectious, high-spirited laudation set to Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs. For both Reich and the style of which he is a leading representative, the concert will be a cause of celebration. Minimalism, a joyous, exciting-and sometimes maddening-amalgam of influences as disparate as African drumming, the Balinese gamelan and new wave rock, has come uptown...
Reich's Tehillim should also find popular favor. The most formally conventional piece Reich has yet written, Tehillim (the name means psalms or praises in Hebrew) is in four movements and reflects its composer's interest in cantillation, or chanting of the Scriptures. The music has a strong Middle Eastern flavor with its crisp, jagged rhythms and exotic melodic turns, which compound and pile up on one another until the piece explodes in an irresistible shout of triumph. In Tehillim Reich has added an ecstatic element to his musical vocabulary, and his work has become more poignant...