Jewish Law may define our 13-year-old sons and daughters as adults, old enough to observe the mitzvot, to fast on Yom Kippur and to be called to the Torah, but any parent of a bar mitzvah knows that the mere coming of age does not transform a boy into a man. And, as I learned on Sept. 11, standing just miles from Ground Zero, no matter how old you are, there can be no preparation for such an awakening.
\”One man telling me I\’m attractive for the rest of my life — that\’s never gonna be enough,\” betrothed comic Dani Klein laments in her autobiographical monologue, \”The Move,\” at Stages Theatre Center.
Fouad Ajami\’s \”Dream Palace of the Arabs\” lacks Benda\’s harshness and polemics, but illustrates how fragile and tenuous are the intellectuals\’ claims on political life.
Since it opened at Broadway\’s Imperial Theater on Sept. 22, 1964, \”Fiddler on the Roof\” with the late Zero Mostel as Tevye, the milkman trying to preserve his family\’s traditions in the face of a changing world, is still part of the tapestry of Jewish and American culture.
Artist Mauricio Lasansky was infuriated after viewing Alain Resnais\’ graphic 1955 Holocaust documentary, \”Night and Fog.\”
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