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A capacity-plus crowd of some 400 people, including mostly younger Jews and Muslims, filled the Skirball\’s Magnin Auditorium and gave the two speakers a warm welcome. The straightforwardness of the event gave little evidence of the passions that preceded it.
\”It\’s terrible being far away,\” said Israeli-born photographer Elinor Milchan, about watching the news of last summer\’s Israel-Hezbollah war on CNN or Fox. \”They only show you brief moments of terror. They don\’t show you in-between moments that give you strength.\”
Marc Kessler, who conceived the show, along with Ken Davenport, said they first conceptualized a four-person band. But then they realized they could add \”the outsider\” archetype, and who would better fit that than a Jewish character?
\”I became a [musician] because she gave me two choices: to either become the first Jewish president of the United States or a great concert pianist,\” Fleischer added.
Through Project Magic, Copperfield has changed the outlook and brought out the talent of patients who feel disempowered and, in some cases, stigmatized.