Word: sholom
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Former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin faces federal charges including defrauding a bank, helping illegal immigrants obtain false papers and money-laundering. (He has made no comment on the charges on advice of counsel, but his lawyer Guy Cook says, "Whether it's 99 counts or 9,000 counts, he's pled not guilty.") Other managers face criminal charges, and the plant faces millions in state fines for alleged workplace violations...
Still here are the matchless Jerry Bock--Sheldon Harnick songs (has any opening number done a better job of introducing a show's themes, setting and characters than Tradition?); most of Jerome Robbins' original choreography; and Joseph Stein's solid book (based on Sholom Aleichem stories) about a Jewish milkman and his marriageable daughters in the Russian village of Anatevka, in the days before they are uprooted and forced to migrate to America. But Leveaux has ditched the old-fashioned scene changes and set the show on an open stage, with bare trees silhouetted against a translucent blue and orange...
...region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule—Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...
...year 2004, you heard 'N SYNC was playing Bat Mitzvahs, you'd probably think things were right on schedule. But last weekend the boys gigged at Temple Beth Sholom in Potomac, Md., to honor Rachel Colburn, whose father happens to be a high-ranking AOL exec with connections to the band. Three hundred surprised guests were treated to a 40-minute set of hits, including Bye Bye Bye and Tearin' Up My Heart. Hava Nagila remixes should be bootlegged...