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Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor
Israeli Rock
Established in 1993 and out with a new
CD, V'sham Nashir (There We Will Sing),
Israeli rock band Reva L'Sheva's style corn-
bines the influence of the late musical and
spiritual leader Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach,
traditional music and the Grateful Dead;
its mission is to "unite the Jewish people
and bring them closer to their Jewish
souls."
Reva L'Sheva ("Quarter to Seven" in
English) is composed of native Israelis and
American, East Indian and Argentinean
immi-
grants —
observant
and secular
Jews. The
band's
members
include
Yehudah
Katz,
Members of Reva L'Sheva
vocals, gui-
tar and mandolin; Eliezer Blumen, vocals,
guitar and harmonica; Chanan Elias, key-
board and vocals; Brian Levine, bass;
Danny Roth, drums; and Nitsan Chen
Razel, violin.
Congregation Shir Tikvah of Troy,
Congregation Beth Shalom of Oak Park
and the Detroit Jewish News present Reva
L'Sheva in concert 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10,
at Congregation Beth Shalom. General
admission tickets are $18; $8 for students
under 22 with ID and senior adults.
Donors of $50 and up will receive a ticket
to the concert and reserved seating.
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The group's visit to Detroit is to promote
a prograM called Israel: Visions of Peace,
which encourages songwriting, ensemble
performance, creative writing, photogra-
phy and painting, all around the theme of
Israel. While in the Detroit area, the band
will meet with rabbis, students at Detroit
area Jewish schools and with Jewish col-
lege students. Co-sponsors of the band's
Detroit visit are Federation's Alliance for
Jewish Education and Aish HaTorah.
Tickets may be purchased in advance by
mail or at the door the evening of the con-
cert. For more information, call
Congregation Shir Tikvah, (248) 649-4418,
Ext. 11.
Whispers among them — he also has been
a stage actor for more than 50 years and
recently starred in Bergman productions of
plays by Strindberg and Schiller at the Royal
Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where he
served as director from 1966-1975.
In the Bergman films of the 1970s, the
Jewish
actor,.according to French director
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
Francois
Truffaut, "engendered the neurotic,
Institute of Arts presents Ingmar Bergman's
post-war 20th-century
Saraband (2004) 7 and 9:30
man: aloof, introspective
p.m. Friday and Saturday and
and self-centered."
5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2-4.
Josephson also has
Filmed in high-definition
appeared
in English pro-
video by one of the cinema's
ductions
by
Peter Brooks,
great masters, Saraband
films
by
Soviet
filmmak-
revisits, 30 years after
er
Andrei
Tarkowsky
and
Bergman's film classic Scenes
in
many
Italian
films.
In
From a Marriage, the charac-
addition,
he
is
the
author
ters Marianne (Liv Ullmann)
of eight novels and sever-
and Johan (Erland Josephson)
Erland Josep hson
al books of memoirs.
as they meet for the first time
His fourth novel, A
in decades.
Story
About Mr.
While Erland Josephson, 82, is best
Silberstein,
was
translated
into English in
known as an actor in Bergman films —
2001
by
Roger
Greenwald
and is an unset-
Fanny and Alexander and Cries and
Bergman Favorite
,
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Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
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`Songwriting Duo
On Nov. 20, an envelope John Lennon
used to write down some of the lyrics of
41) his 1969 anthem "Give Peace a Chance"
n, was pulled off the auction block and sold
Ma to a private buyer for around $400,000.
(Some speculate his widow, Yoko Ono,
may have bought it.)
The lyrics on this previously unknown
envelope didn't include the title of the
song, but written on the envelope was
the name and telephone number of
Toronto Reform rabbi Abraham
Feinberg (1899-1986), a well-known
advocate of liberal social causes, includ-
ing racial equality.
London's Sunday Times cited the enve-
lope and other evidence to strongly
assert what some sources have said
go
66
before — that Feinberg must be
given credit for giving the song its
title.
In 1969, Lennon called
Feinberg, who came over to
Lennon's Toronto hotel. The two
hit it off. By chance, the rabbi
said, "John, we really have to give
peace a chance."
Voila! Lennon had his famous
title, which did double duty as
most of the song's chorus.
puppet she calls "her
sister." Just as Mallory
often traveled with her
mother, Mallory's 6-
year-old son now
often travels with her.
On Nov. 20, Mallory
Lewis and Lamb Chap
appeared in Las Vegas
to kick-off the Nevada
Jewish Book Festival.
Mallory Lewis with
Lamb Chop
Lewis told a Las Vegas
newspaper that,
among
other
projects,
she is working on
Larnbchop Lives
a
combination
live
action
and animation
Baby-boomers and some Gen-Xer's (as
TV
series
starring
--
of
course
— Lamb
well as their parents) will remember
Chop.
puppeteer Shari Lewis and her memo-
rable hand puppet Lamb Chop.
Shari Lewis died in 1996. About a year
later, her daughter, Mallory Lewis,
decided not to let the joy of seeing Lamb
Chop end. She tours the world with the
Reed In The Surf
You may remember Nikki Reed, 17, as
the pretty co-star and co-writer of the
acclaimed 2003 film Thirteen. In the
flick, she and budding actress Evan
Rachel Wood, now 18, played troubled
teenagers.
Now, Reed will play a surfer-type girl
on The 0.C., the hit
Fox TV show. Reed's
character will be the
focus of a four-
episode arc of shows
airing next year.
In recent inter-
views, Reed said she
was "mostly raised"
in her father's Jewish
faith. She describes
her mother as Italian Nikki Reed
and Cherokee.
As for Wood, only
her mother (a theater teacher) is Jewish,
although the actress is sometimes simply
describedas "Jewish" (including by Nikki
Reed on the Thirteen DVD commentary).
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December 1 2005