The stage is askew and sounds of seagulls squawk at the off-Broadway Castillo Theatre, where Dan Friedman’s “The Learning Play of Rabbi Levi-Yitzhak, Son of Sara, of Berdichev,” takes the setting of a deck aboard a late 19th century steamer heading to America, with four Russian Jews representing the religious spectrum between socialism and Orthodoxy.
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By Sergey Kadinsky
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10/26/11
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Howard Jacobson is the author of “The Finkler Question,” a novel that won the prestigious 2010 Man Booker prize. We spoke with him about the book and what it’s like to be one of the premier …
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1/13/11
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By Michael Orbach
It was a pretty good Chanukah for the Maccabeats.
Weeks before, the 14-member a cappella group composed of Yeshiva University students had been virtually unknown outside of …
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By Michael Orbach
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12/16/10
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The Maccabeats perform at Manhattan Day School
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On the last night of the holiday, 10 of the 14 band members performed in Manhattan Day School in front of a several hundreds in a sold-out show.
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12/15/10
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After the first lights of Chanukah melted away, the young artists came out to play. Inside a Gowanus factory space, on the first night of the fifth annual Sephardic Music Festival the walls were …
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By Sergey Kadinsky
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12/9/10
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By Michael Orbach
This year, seven students from Yeshiva University High Schools will be participating in a new independent study Hebrew literature course where they will be mentored by a renowned …
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By Michael Orbach
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12/2/10
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Eishes Chayil is the pseudonymous author of “Hush,” a young-adult novel about sexual abuse inside the Jewish community.The Jewish Star: What motivated you to write this book?Eishes …
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By The Jewish Star Staff
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12/2/10
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“Hush” is the pseudonymous’ Eishes Chayil’s daring foray into the forbidden territory of sexual abuse in the closed enclave of Hasidic Boro Park. Gittel and Devory, the main …
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By Olivia Wiznitzer
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12/2/10
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