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...Jewish Interests The Vatican's relations with the Jews have been on a steady upward curve since the 1960s, but there is occasional turbulence. Most recently some Jewish groups were upset that Benedict did not excise the passage about converting the Jews from the Latin version of the Mass. As if to make up, Benedict has scheduled several Jewish events this week. At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday he will address Jews along with representatives of other religions at Washington's John Paul II Center. On Friday at 5:00 p.m. he will become the first Pope to visit...
...question, but it certainly gives the viewer a visual treat in its presentation of Yiddish theater and song. Despite a hard-to-follow plotline and technical difficulties related to the projection of English subtitles, the show was amusing and the cast was enthusiastic. Unfamiliarity with the Yiddish language or Jewish traditions didn’t prevent anyone from having a good time. “A Little Night Yiddish” is a celebration of Jewish culture, communicated through traditional Yiddish songs and subject matter (this included the age-old “Jewish Mother” stereotype, which formed...
...wanted a Jewish playwright who really knows his stuff, you should have gotten David Mamet,” he joked, referring to his anxiety about lecturing in front the Harvard audience...
Laura M. Togut ’08 definitely has chutzpah. “A Little Night Yiddish,” written and directed by Togut, features traditional Jewish songs in their original Yiddish book-ended by scripted English sequences that she authored. This work has been the culmination of Togut’s Yiddish studies at Harvard as well as her passion for Jewish culture. “I feel like I am going out with a bang,” she says.Togut began studying Yiddish her freshman year in part to satisfy Harvard’s language requirement...
...Gregory Peck movie, “Gentleman’s Agreement,” features Peck as a reporter who goes undercover, pretending to be Jewish. After experiencing private and public prejudices, he realizes that his personal objection to anti-Semitism is not enough. He must speak...