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T 9X12 LAYOUT_Layout 1 14-04-03 7:55 AM Page 5 #""+$)#* &! (! '($% We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the Jewish Community of Metropolitan Toronto and Area # () On the Occasion of PASSOVER May your Festival of Freedom celebration be a joyous one % for family and friends. JEWISH FLAVOUR BEHIND REVIVAL OF PIPPIN By MIKE COHEN One of the true suc- Wendy Federman and cess stories on Broadway Michael Rubenstein. these days is the revival of This is an extraordi- Pippin at the Music Box nary production which the- Theatre (239 West 45th atre-goers will no doubt Street). It captured four want to see on more than Tony Awards last year, one occasion. It revolves including Best Revival of a around a travelling troupe Musical, Best Actress in a of Players putting on a show Musical (Patina Miller) and about the son of Best Direction of a Musical Charlemagne, Pippin, and (Diane Paulus). the perils of his pursuit of There is a significant happiness. He wages war, Jewish flavor behind this plots revolutions and tries show. Music and lyrics are out domestic life before from composer Stephen finally being led toward an Schwartz, of Wicked fame. “extraordinary” ending Barry and Fran Weissler are crafted by the demonic the lead producers, joined Leading Player played by by the likes of Howard and rising female Broadway star Janet Kagan, Lisa Matlin, Patina Miller But the gen- We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the Allen Spivak, Rebecca Gold, der of the Leading Player Jewish Community of Joshua Goodman, Bryan isn’t the only thing flipped and Margie Weingarten, around in this revival by Metropolitan Toronto and Area Philip Hagemann, Murray Paulus. Now the Players are Lerner, Ben Feldman, a circus troupe. for a Joyous Passover Celebration for family and friends. We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the Jewish Community of Metropolitan Toronto and Area On the Occasion of PASSOVER @+8>3 May your Festival of Freedom celebration be a joyous one for family and friends. $?<@/C381 9<>2"?//8$> JEWISH PRODUCERS of Pippin, Barry and Fran Weissler T 9X12 LAYOUT_Layout 1 14-04-03 7:55 AM Page 10 #""+$)#* &! (! '($% PRESBYTERIANS AND ISRAEL We Extend Best Wishes for Passover to Our Jewish Friends and Customers infamously, several dozen five years ago. When local Presbyterian leaders - Palestinian leaders weren't throughout seventeen of them clergy- even pretending to recog- Metropolitan Toronto and Area men - undertook a "study nize Israel. When they open- mission" of their own to ly declared their goal was to May your celebration be a joyous occasion Israel and the territories. destroy the Jewish State. When they came back home When they unabashedly for family and friends. ten days later, they issued a praised every Arab terrorist declaration accusing Israel attack against Jews. of "repression" and alleging In other words, the "parallels between the early real problem for these stages of what [Jews] suf- Presbyterians was not some fered in Germany, and what Israeli policies, or the con- their country is now doing struction of Israeli settle- to their Palestinian cousins ments, or the absence of a in the Occupied Territories." Palestinian state. The real And these newly- problem, then as now, was crowned Mideast experts their conviction that were not content to just pri- Zionism itself - the very vately seethe with indigna- existence of Israel - is, as tion. No, they were deter- they put it, "a false theolo- mined to influence policy as gy." well: they announced that So don't lose heart. (/93838B>/8.381/=>(3=2/= they had already sent let- An extremist minority of ters to the White House, Christians in America, >9 ?</A3=2<3/8.=>2<9?129?> urging "a more even-handed including a portion of the U.S. policy towards Israel small Presbyterian /><9:963>+8%9<98>9+8.</+ and the Palestinian people," Church USA, has always 8>2/ --+=39890 and were planning to con- hated Israel, and proba- tact their congressmen, too. bly always will. There are !$$ '# Now here's the kick- at least one hundred mil- er. Do you know when that lion other American +CC9?<-/6/,<+>398,/+49C9?=98/ Presbyterian 'study mission' Christians who feel very took place? In 1989. Twenty- differently. • BROADWAY BEAT Schwartz has con- Show,The Baker’s Wife, tributed music and/or lyrics Working (which he also to Godspell, The Magic adapted and directed), (/B>/8./=>(3=2/=>9>2/ /A3=2977?83>C90/><9:963>+8%9<98>9+8.</+ 8>2/ --+=39890 !$$ '# +CC9?<-/6/,<+>398,C+49C9?=98/ 09<0+736C+8.0<3/8.= T 9X12 LAYOUT_Layout 1 14-04-03 7:56 AM Page 12 #""+$)#* &! (! '($% BROADWAY BEAT and been translated into 11 Christina Applegate; and languages. Other notable Kander and Ebb’s The credits include Cabaret with Scottsboro Boys. Joel Grey; Cat on a Hot Tin Emmy and Golden Roof with Kathleen Turner; Globe Award nominee Annie Zorba with Anthony Quinn; Potts ("Designing Women," My One & Only with Tommy “God of Carnage”) assumed Tune; Falsetto; My Fair the role of "Berthe" in the Lady with Richard production which began on Chamberlin; Grease with January 21, 2014 We got a Rosie O’Donnell and Megan first look at her in the show Mullally; Wonderful Town; and what a wonderful pro- Sweet Charity with duction it is. We Extend Best Wishes for Passover • May your celebration be a joyous one WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE for family and friends. Studies, in Washington, record, contravene accepted D.C. standards of scholarly Medoff’s essay also research, and have impeded reveals that the Roosevelt the public’s understanding House Public Policy of the Roosevelt administra- Institute, at Hunter College tion’s response to the in New York City, has Holocaust.” acknowledged that it erred Some of the exam- in publicly portraying FDR’s ples cited in “Antisemitism mother as a champion of in the White House”: Jewish refugees. The insti- - Professors Richard We Take Pleasure in Extending Greetings and tute has removed an article Breitman and Allan Best Wishes to Our Jewish Friends about Mrs. Roosevelt from Lichtman, authors of FDR On the Occasion of its web site and pledged to and the Jews (2013) with- correct it. held a portion of a 1938 PASSOVER Dr. Medoff’s essay memo in which President May your holiday be a joyous occasion. concludes: “Unfortunately, Roosevelt alleged that Jews some historians have cho- were dominating the Polish sen to withhold documents, economy; in the memo, FDR or portions of documents, also claimed the Jews’ that reflect unfavorably on behavior was the cause of FDR’s views [about antisemitism in Poland. Jews]...Such actions in Breitman and Lichtman had effect amount to censorship the memo in their posses- of portions of the historical sion: they quoted from a (/93838(3=2381>2//A3=2977?83>3/= 90/><9:963>+8%9<98>99<>2)9<5 +8.)9<5#/1398 +9C9?=!+==9@/</6/,<+>398.

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