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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. $?<@/C381
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#" "+$)# * &! (! '($% 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. (/ 938 38 B>/8.381 /=> (3=2/= they had already sent let- An extremist minority of ters to the White House, Christians in America, >9 ?<