The Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Circus comes to the Palace of
Auburn Hills Nov. 9-13. Show times are
7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 11
a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday; 11:30 a.m. and
3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; and 1 and 5
p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12.50-$20, with
a limited number of $35 VIP, $50 front-
row and $70 Circus Celebrity seats also
available. (248) 645-6666 or www.ticket-
master.com.

Rabbinic Stories

New York University Professor Jeffrey
Rubenstein will speak on "Rabbinic
Stories: Between History and Literature"
11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the
University of Michigan. His talk takes
place in Room 3050 of the Frieze Building,
105 S. State St., in Ann Arbor.
In his lecture, Rubinstein will discuss

whether rabbinic stories — from the
Talmud, Midrash and other works of rab-
binic literature — should be viewed as
reliable historical and biographical
sources, or whether they are better charac-
terized as didactic fiction that should be
studied with the tools of literary analysis.
He will discuss the nature of the rabbinic
story and the reasons for recent shifts in
scholarly approaches regarding the stories
of Hillel, Akiba, Shimon bar Yohai and
other great rabbis of the talmudic era.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call (734) 615-
1287.

Israeli Genders

It seems more and more Israeli bands are
singing in English these days. One of
them, out of the Tel Aviv area, is the
Genders, an English-singing punk rock

lumped with Las Vegas-style
he convinced Cash to do:
pop glitz.
write "stripped-down" songs
So, this CD will tell us
and get back to the more
whether
Diamond, 64, still has a
personal, musically simple
"rock 'n roll sour (Early
material that marked both
reviews are good. Newsweek
Cash's and Diamond's early
called the new CD "Diamond's
work.
best work in 30 years!')
Diamond's first hits, like
David Draiman, 32, the lead
"Cracklin Rosie" and "I'm a
singer of the heavy metal band
Believer.," were straight-ahead
Disturbed, will never be
bouncy rock tunes. While
David Drairnan
accused of being overproduced
popular, his later songs and
or sweet. This rebel from an
current stage show have been
called "overproduced" by most critics and Orthodox Jewish family sings ear-split-

outfit influenced by the Stooges,
Velvet Underground and the New
York Dolls. The band is currently
on a coast-to-coast, 60-date tour
of the United States in support of
their new CD, titled Rockin' in
Ramallah.
Amir Neubach, the band's
frontman, who started his musi-
cal career at age 16 as guitarist
for Salem, one of Israel's most
popular metal bands, has said
that performing in English is
something that comes naturally.
He learned the language growing The Genders
up in London, where his parents
The Genders are scheduled to perform
were emissaries for the Jewish Agency.
Friday,
Nov. 11, at the New Dodge Lounge,
"When you decide to sing in English in
8850
Joseph
Campau, in Hamtramck. Ages
Israel, you put out there that you have
21
and
older.
For more information, call
international aspirations, and I think a lot
(313)
874-5963.
people respect that these days:' Neubach
said in a recent interview.

ting rock. His band's third CD, A
Thousand Fists, soared to No. 1 on the
Billboard charts when it was released late
in September. But, unlike Diamond,
doubt he will still be putting out new CDs
when (as the Beatles would say) he's 64.

DVD Watch

Here are this month's new DVD releases
with a Jewish connection: Heights, about
the romance of an interfaith couple (out
Nov. 1); Madagascar, an animated flick

J'Nevine

and huge box office hit that features the
voices of David Schimmer and Sacha
Baron Cohen (out Nov.15); Seasons Five
and Six of
Seinfeld (out Nov.
22; if you buy the
combo deluxe set,
you get a gift
"puffy shirt");
and Barbra
Streisand's
TV specials
(out Nov. 22). ❑ Barbra Streisand

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