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June 19, 1997
Keeping in Rhythm
Doctorow was wary when the call from Toronto came four years ago. Garth Drabinsky, the maverick theater producer who runs his company like a 1930s movie mogul, had a proposition: He wanted to turn Doctorow\’s 1975 best seller, \”Ragtime,\” into a musical. Drabinsky had won Tonys and made millions with \”Show Boat\” and \”Kiss of the Spider Woman,\” and wanted to repeat with \”Ragtime.\”
America, Set to Music
After the countless ads, fluff pieces and an advance press packet thick enough to choke a horse, the question hung in the celebrity-studded lobby of the Shubert Theatre last Sunday evening: Could \”Ragtime\” pull it off?
‘I am Tateh’
In \”Ragtime,\” the part of Tateh, a widowed, immigrant Jew who comes to New York with a young daughter in tow, is in many ways a role that is especially close to the heart of actor John Rubinstein.
Justice for Jonathan Pollard
The argument that Pollard was a spy, and that is all that matters, may be legally valid, but it is not morally valid.
Minister of Compassion
Yitzhak Mordechai, Israel\’s defense minister, delicately discusses peace, his boss and the conversion bill during a recent L.A. visit
Mission
A mission to Israel that\’s billed as the largest ever in the history of the Los Angeles Jewish community is scheduled to take place between Nov. 1 and 10 of this year. About 500 Southern Californians are expected to participate in the Golden Anniversary Community Mission, which is being coordinated by the Jewish Federation Council in commemoration of the Jewish state\’s first 50 years.
Compromise
The conversion bill compromise was based on a position paper presented to the prime minister and his colleagues by a Reform and Conservative delegation.
Open-Door Policy
They are your brother, your cousin, your lawyer, your best friend, or possibly yourself. Yet, while there are as many gays, lesbians and bisexuals in the Jewish community as in any other, they often feel like outcasts in their own faith, afraid that they can\’t be open about their sexuality and a committed Jew as well.
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