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Engaging in Giant Questions with A Few Little Answers

David Sacks October 30, 2019

STAY TUNED: Director Kymberly Harris Answers Questions Actors Really Want to Ask

Kymberly Harris August 19, 2019

The seder is all about questions. The evening starts with the famous four, asked by the youngest present, but if the seder is what it should be, it doesn’t stop there. Everyone around the table — from the youngest all the way to the oldest — is encouraged to dissect, debate and shamelessly pontificate over each bit of the haggadah and over any part of Jewish tradition, ideally well into the night.

TV: Shoah makes searing mark in Ken Burns WWII documentary

Steven Rosen September 21, 2007

\”We wanted to use four [American] towns as examples to get to know people — those who fought and those who stayed at home — and to get to their experiences as it happened.\”

The result is Burns and co-director Lynn Novick seeing the war as it was unfolding through the eyes of soldiers from Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento; Waterbury, Conn., and Luverne, Minn., to show, in so many ways, the ongoing hellishness of even a necessary war.