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March 26, 2010
“Klezmer en Buenos Aires”
I first heard the duo \”Klezmer en Buenos Aires\” in a Buenos Aires 1940s-vintage corner bar called the Cafe Mar Azul. This tiny space, seating a few dozen people, was so packed with standees that night that they opened the big windows so that there were more people were listening from out on the street than there were inside the jammed bar. The duo\’s clarinet and accordion sang out onto the sidewalks until people were dancing on the pavement to the sobbing krekhts and trilling dreylekhs.
JWW joins Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative
Jewish World Watch Co-founder and President Janice Kamenir-Reznik and Executive Director Tzivia Schwartz Getzug have just returned from a trip to the Congo, where earlier this year JWW did an exploratory visit to see what the group could do to help stop the devastating brutality and exploitation of women and children there.
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO “JUST 45 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY”
Just 45 Minutes from Broadway is the madcap new play from noted theater and film writer/director Henry Jaglom, now playing at the Edgemar Center for the Arts (2437 Main Street in Santa Monica). This hilarious world premiere comedy introduces us to the Isaacs, a mostly Jewish extended family of actors, who get a surprise when their daughter brings home her new fiance – a \”civilian.\” But the surprises don\’t end there!
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