World Briefs
JTA Staff
October 23, 2003
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is believed to be the murderer of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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jewish
Coming of Age on a Basketball Court
Naomi Pfefferman
September 25, 2003
\”I knew this could be a good story because so many different things had happened to people,\” said Dan Klores, sounding more like an introvert than a schmoozer. \”You have a group of guys, and one is homeless, one wins a $45 million lottery, two lose their children and one lives without electricity or running water in Woodstock, N.Y.\”
Good Timing Lands Luck in Director’s Lap
George Robinson
September 18, 2003
Greg Pritikin\’s film takes place in a sort of every-suburb America of tract houses with manicured lawns and two-car garages, and is utterly devoid of anything to place it in historical time.
For Love of the Dance
Naomi Pfefferman
September 11, 2003
If it seems unlikely that a nice Jewish girl would become a flamenco dancer, consider her early role models. Or Nili Azulay\’s Syrian-born grandmother, Nona, defied her parents to wed the man she loved, then refused to remarry after he died several years later. Azulay\’s mother, Chaya, became one of Israel\’s first female barristers; her father died when she was a small child. \”The sadness of not having a father was tempered by growing up with these strong, independent women,\” she said.
How the Other Half Lives
Naomi Pfefferman
September 11, 2003
Call it \”Trading Places.\” In Shakir Yusif Farsakh\’s surreal \”Convergence,\” an Israeli commander and a Palestinian suicide bomb squad leader dream about the pain their acts inflict.
The Other Side of the South
Naomi Pfefferman
September 4, 2003
What surprised Warner Shook was the play\’s reference to Jewish bigotry: \”I had known nothing about the conflict between German and Eastern European Jews,\” he said. Shook was so fascinated he decided to direct the piece; to learn more, he read books on Jewish Atlanta and watched documentaries such as \”Delta Jews,\” narrated by Uhry.
‘The Passion’ Over Jesus
David Finnigan
August 21, 2003
Controversy over \”The Passion\” has swept through Jewish leadership circles, with the yet-to-be released film generating a discomfort and fear not found in the typical, sometimes difficult conversations that Jews have with non-Jews over contentious issues such as Israel.
Rabbis, Scholars OK CBS ‘Hitler’ Pic
Tom Tugend
May 8, 2003
CBS feared that the early Hitler would be \”humanized\” into a sympathetic figure as an abused child and misunderstood artist or as a German Rocky who overcame tremendous odds, and even that the film might trigger pogrom-like outbursts.
A Hero for Seder
Si Frumkin
April 17, 2003
Michael and his wife went to a kibbutz in British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s. He joined the navy when war broke out and later ended up teaching French and metal shop at a London high school. It was there that he accepted a challenge that changed his life.
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