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A CAPPELLA

In their performances and on three CDs, Kol
Hakavod, the University of Michigan's Jewish a
cappella group, combines Israeli rock, Zionist
classics and other music in Hebrew, English,
Yiddish and Ladino.
The group will perform a free concert for the
JARC community 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 27,
at the JARC offices, 30301 Northwestern
Highway, in Farmington Hills. The concert is
open to the public, and Kol Hakavod CDs and
recordings will be available for purchase. Purim
refreshments, including
hamantashen, will be served
after the concert.
This event is the first in a
series of joint ventures
between JARC, the nonprofit
provider of residential services
for the developmentally dis-
abled, and U-M Hillel.
For more information, call
(248) 538-6611.

"Equestrian Gestures" presents the
Palestinian journalist who had become
dark and moody horse paintings of
friends during the Japan trip but lost
Dearborn Heights artist Ellen
touch as negotiations collapsed and
Moucoulis and Jewish sculptor Norma
positions hardened. Each chooses to
Penchansky-Glasser's works in wire and
take the other to particular places —
plaster impregnated gauze, horses that
the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in
strain and twist with almost ballet-like
Jerusalem, Hebron, Jenin and Tel Aviv
gestures.
— in an effort tujustify his political
An opening reception to meet the
position.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
artists will be held 7-9 p.m. Friday,
Arts Editor
The films, sponsored by the MSU
April 1. Regular gallery hours are 12-5
Jewish Studies Program, will be shown
p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 12-9 p.m.
6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 2, in Wells
Fridays-Saturdays and 12-4 p.m. Sundays.
Hall (Bresson Theatre A). Tickets are $7/$5 for
Information: (734) 761-
students.
2287 or www.wsg-art.com .
For more information and a complete schedule,
call (517) 336-5802 or go to awww.elff.com .

DOUBLE BILL

Two films by Dov Gil-
Har, filmmaker and host of
Israel's TV-2 morning news
program, will be shown as a
double bill at the 2005 East
Lansing Film Festival,
whiCh runs March 30-April
3 on the Michigan Sate
University campus.

HORSING
AROUND

From March 29-May 8 at
the Washington Street Gallery
in Ann Arbor — which is
located at 120 E. Liberty —
an exhibition of paintings and
sculptures will capture the
vision of two artists with two
views of the movement of
horses.

Sleeping with the Enemy

(2000) follows 20
Palestinians and Israelis as
they build friendships dur-
ing a trip to Japan during
the heady days of the Oslo
peace process.

Horse sculpture by Norma Penchansky-
Glasser at Ann Arbor's Washington Street
Gallery

CET TBRITY JEWS

NATE BLOOM

Special to the Jewish News

Deconstructing Woody

WOODY ALLEN'S new flick, Melinda and Melinda,
opened last week in selected cities to better reviews
than most of his recent films. (The movie opens
April 1 in Detroit; see next week's Jewish News for a
review)
Comingsoon.net asked Allen: "Do you think it's
fair to say that the comedy in Melinda is more for
Jews and the drama is more for WASPs?"
He replied: "That's very funny. I'm forever being
asked why all the comedians are Jewish, and I always
feel that they're not. I was raised in a Jewish neigh-

Nate Bloom is the California-based editor
of www.jewhoo.corn.

3/24
2005

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Behind Enemy Lines

(2004) reunites an Israeli
police officer and a

borhood in a Jewish household, so naturally my
idiom is where I grew up.
"I've [discussed this] with Spike Lee. I could never
convincingly write about a black family, and I doubt
if he could write as convincingly as I could about a
Jewish family because I lived it every moment, so it
gets into the nuances."
Also, this month, Allen's only biological child,
SEAMUS FARROW (formerly Satchel Allen), spoke
to the press for the first time about Woody. Seamus,
17, said he and Woody were once close, but they
haven't spoken in nine years. Their relationship was
destroyed when Allen left Seamus' mother, Mia
Farrow, for Mia's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
Seamus, by the way, is often called a "boy genius"
because he's already finished college and will soon go
to Yale Law School.

Peet Percolates

Co-starring in Melinda and Melinda is the gorgeous
AMANDA PEET, whose mother is Jewish.

FABULOUS FLUTIST

Born in Breslav, Bulgaria, flutist Ginka Ortega,
now an Oakland County resident, holds graduate
and post-graduate degrees in performance from
Varna State School of Music, Wayne State
University, Oberlin and the University of
Michigan.
Since her Carnegie Hall debut, this re-inventor
of the cante jondo, or deep singing, into the flute,
has performed worldwide with artists and orches-
tras from Moscow to Madrid.
At 8 p.m. Saturday, April 2, the Vivace Series at
the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills will
present Ortega in concert with her ensemble,
Musica Espanada. The program will feature works
from classical Spanish composers, medieval
Sephardic songs and passionate flamenco.
Tickets are .$21 general admission/$18 seniors
and students. An afterglow with the artist follows

As well as being in Allen's movie, she is currently
co-starring opposite BEN STILLER in This Is How
It Goes at New York City's Public Theater.
Marisa Tomei was to play her part, but Tomei
withdrew on March 4, six days before previews start-
ed. It's quite a compliment to Peet that the show's
producers felt she could be ready in less than a week.
(The show runs through Apr. 10.)
As soon as the play closes, Peet will promote her
new movie, A Lot Like Love. It's a romantic comedy
with Ashton Kutcher that opens April 22.

Trekkie Things
a

Beginning March 29 on Spike TV is WILLIAM
SHATNER's reality series, Invasion Iowa, "starring"
the people of the town where Star Trek's Captain
Kirk was supposedly born.
Meanwhile, Shatner is now in theaters as the co-
star of Miss Congeniality II, which opens today,
March 24. In the sequel, Congeniality star Sandra
Bullock goes uncover as a Jewish grandma.

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