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tony kushner
9 Jewish LGBTQ activists you should know
Jewish Journal
June 27, 2016
New York City’s gay pride parade on Sunday was full of highlights. The NBA and WNBA became the first professional sports leagues to march.
Social-cultural youth program to launch in L.A.
Ryan Torok
December 12, 2012
A new social program for 20- and 30-something Jews is bringing comedian Sarah Silverman, playwright Tony Kushner, New York literary editor Ira Silverberg, and other Jewish artists and cultural leaders all under one tent — metaphorically — in 2013.
After Tony Kushner stumble, CUNY tries to dust itself off
Jewish Journal
May 9, 2011
Having embarrassed themselves more than was absolutely necessary in the eyes of many New Yorkers, trustees of the City University of New York are gathering Monday evening to undo the damage.
Koch to CUNY: Boot trustee who attacked Kushner
Jewish Journal
May 6, 2011
Ed Koch call for the City University of New York to terminate its relationship with a trustee who engineered the denial of an honorary degree to Tony Kushner because of the playwright\’s criticism of Israel.
Kushmet
Rob Eshman
November 9, 2007
And so, my two favorite playwrights find themselves on opposite sides of a longstanding Jewish divide. \”All sound creative art is rooted in a ghetto,\” the critic Ludwig Lewisohn once wrote. Once out of that ghetto, the roots bifurcate, and we Jews have fashioned two strategies for survival. For the Mamets, salvation lies in toughness and certainty, the People of the Butch. For Kushner, our promise is in compromise and doubt.
UJ’s Levy crafts confab to celebrate authors
Naomi Pfefferman
November 2, 2007
A new bookshelf, overflowing with volumes, testifies to Gady Levy\’s latest and perhaps most ambitious endeavor: the Celebration of Jewish Books, which begins on Monday and extends through an all-day festival on Sunday. The celebration will offer lectures and signings with 40 authors — including big names, such as Larry King, Michael Chabon, Kirk Douglas and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) — plus music and dance performances, food and a thousand titles for sale, provided by Borders and the Hebrew-language bookseller Steimatzky.\n
Kushner’s (old) testament to Lincoln
Naomi Pfefferman
October 26, 2007
Interview with playwright Tony Kushner.
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