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...effortlessly conveys Lulu’s complexity by highlighting the character’s youthful innocence and desire to be mature.However, the greatest applause goes to Ben T. Clark ’09, who steals the show with his portrayal of Goldberg, the sweet-talking, temperamental Jewish gangster. Clark’s representation of Goldberg is well complemented by the theatrical efforts of castmate Justin A. Monticello ’09, whose character, McCann, confuses, amuses, and frightens. Monticello’s versatility is remarkable, as he comically shreds newspapers in some scenes, but seethes with frenzied rage in others.The...
Last week's story of a troupe of young Palestinian musicians from Jenin serenading a group of elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors near Tel Aviv seemed like an improbable ray of hope on a darkening political landscape. Instead, the music has died in Jenin, and the episode has turned into another of those daily tragedies that demonstrate the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians...
...themes moving and realistic. “The play puts forth a lot of political ideas, but there are themes of love, about how can you be forgiven for doing something terrible,” Gus T. Hickey ’11, who plays Louis Ironson, a gay Jewish man who leaves his AIDS-infected lover. “The main lesson that the directors are trying to push is that you have to struggle with whatever life throws at you, that you can’t stand by and let life just pass you. You have to work with...
...remains to be seen whether Lieberman is willing to accept a truly independent Palestinian state - Netanyahu has indicated that he won't, insisting, in the name of the Jewish state's security, that Israel control the air space and borders of such an entity and have veto power over its military and foreign policies. Netanyahu's track record, however, is more pragmatic than ideological. Despite his open loathing of Yasser Arafat, Netanyahu and his previous government signed a deal in 1998 with the late PLO leader for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the West Bank, including...
...there are rumblings of another intifadeh, or uprising, breaking out in the West Bank. And a wider peace with Arab nations will depend on Israel's letting the Palestinians have a state. In his farewell speech, outgoing Premier Olmert warned, "There is no state of Israel without a solid Jewish majority, and there is no Jewish majority in Greater Israel [including the West Bank], which is home to millions of Palestinians." Olmert lacked the courage and the political backing to help the Palestinians create a state. Now it's Netanyahu's turn. - With reporting by Jamil Hamad / Ramallah...