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March 3, 2010
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Hila Plittman, a Grammy-winning Israeli soprano, sings composer Andrea Clearfield’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated cantata, “The Long Bright,” a one-night only West Coast premiere.The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony and women’s choir Kol Isha accompany Plitmann for this multimovement piece, which contains lyrics from the poetry of author/playwright David Wolman. Paying tribute to Wolman’s late wife, who died of breast cancer, the performance illustrates “the transformative process from grief and loss to transcendence,” said Noreen Green, L.A. Jewish Symphony conductor and artistic director.
Letters to the Editor: Dennis Prayer, UC Irvine, Our Purim Spoof Cover
Where’s the proof?\n\nMr. Prager attacks rabbis for stating that Judaism does not believe in the so-called afterlife but cites no Jewish sources or Jewish commentators (Rashi, the Ramban, the Malbin, et al. ) to substantiate his view that there is an afterlife (“Jews and the Afterlife,” Feb. 26). It’s not one of the Ramban’s 13 principles. I’m sure he hesitates to cite Christian sources since he’s writing in a Jewish-oriented weekly. We should just take this radio pundit’s word for it because he knows. (Conceivably, some unfortunate soul came back from God knows where to personally tell him all about it.)
Masorti Olami movement: Synagogue in Concepcion destroyed in Earthquake
According to the Masorti Olami, the Masorti synagogue in Concepcion was destroyed in the earthquake that rocked Chile this weekend.
Kings acquire Jeff Halpern for Teddy Purcell, report says
The Kings won\’t confirm it, but Canada\’s TSN network is reporting that they have acquired veteran center Jeff Halpern from Tampa Bay for Teddy Purcell and a third-round pick that the Kings previously acquired from Florida.
A synagogue in Cairo
One of Cairo’s most historic synagogues and a yeshiva, restored by the Egyptian government, is to be rededicated next week. Known colloquially as “Rav Moshe,” the yeshiva was the original study of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides, the renowned physician, rabbinic scholar and leader of the Egyptian Jewish community in the 12th century. Accessible only by foot along narrow commercial streets, visitors today enter his yeshiva through the foyer of a 19th century synagogue built in his honor.
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