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It’s embarrassing to admit that I sometimes see movies because I have celebrity crushes on the people in them. But this fall, I have a newer, more expensive problem: New Broadway plays are coming out, and two of them star two of my biggest, strongest celebrity crushes. First, I heard about Jake Gyllenhaal (a Jew!)…
There’s something fundamentally Jewish about celebrating the lives of our great teachers. The challenge is in how we celebrate, whether with somber intention or with a sense of fun. JTA highlights an example of this debate in the musical “Soul Doctor,” which explores the life and times of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, known across movement lines as…
Whoever thought that Bubbe’s track suit could help her land a part Off Broadway? All she’d have to do is stand up, tell a joke, and she’d be part of a long tradition of old Jews who love keeping the youngin’s in stiches. Old jews telling jokes is a source for cute, quick humor that is…