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Fun.: Andrew Dost, Nate Reuss and Solomon Schechter
Day School grad Jack Antonoff.

Having Fun, Period

These are awesome times for
Fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff.

Lynne Konstantin I Contributing Writer

Nancy Triest and her Partners mentor, Janet Snider, at Tuesday night learning in the Partners Study Hall

Yeshiva's Tuesday night study helps unify community.

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more meaningful."
s the clock ticks toward 8 on Tuesday
nights in the Partners Study Hall of Yeshiva
The two women take part in Tuesday night learn-
Beth Yehudah on the Newman Family
ing — flagship of the Jean and Theodore Weiss
Partners in Torah program. This hour of
Campus, Janet Snider, a Yeshiva gradu-
ate and Bingham Farms pediatrician,
informal learning hosted by the Southfield-
greets her study partner, Nancy Triest of
based Yeshiva each week typically boasts
a Huntington Woods, who works in sales
upwards of 180 partnerships engaged in
and loves nurturing her Jewish identity.
the same higher pursuit, all under the
A good friend suggested Janet, a Torah
watch of Rabbi Bentzy Schechter, the pro-
teacher, when Nancy was seeking a new
gram director, and Rabbi Avraham Cohen,
study mentor. Talk about beshert, some-
the education director.
thing "meant to be." Says Nancy: "Janet is
The lesson plan is not only to select
so wonderful."
and study Jewish text (Torah, Talmud and
Robert Sklar
Nancy added, "We have been learning
more), but also to enhance the learning
Contrib uting
for a few years and have explored many
through each partner's experiences, what-
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different topics and themes that have
ever their levels of Torah observance. I've
interested one or both of us.
participated for nine of the program's 17
"For example, we always spend time exploring each years with the same partner, Janet's husband, Stuart.
upcoming holiday, which makes those days much
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un. is fresh. But it is also slightly familiar. And the
passionate musical puppet-masters pulling its audi-
ences' strings know exactly what they are doing.
Nate Ruess, 31, the pop-rock trio's lead singer and
lyricist, brings a lush, theatrical element to the group's
sound, with a dreamy, almost operatic tenor reminiscent of
Freddie Mercury and Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne.
Keyboardist (and Frankfort, Mich., native) Andrew Dost,
30, is a diverse multi-instrumentalist, mastering everything
from guitar and piano to flugelhorn and glockenspiel.
And Jack Antonoff, 27 — the Jewish member of the group
— grew up playing guitar with his dad, who introduced Jack
to his favorite band. "Our real connection, musically, is the
Beatles',' says Antonoff of his bandmates, who, like the famed
Liverpudlians and Queen, also are masters of the crescendo.
"But outside of the Beatles bond, we definitely have dif-
ferent tastes. I'm interested in the more physical side of
music, so the three of us complement each other really well.
Nate is about melody and lyrics and is very conceptual, and
Andrew and I add the bells and whistles — together, hope-
fully, we make it beautiful, passionate and compelling."
According to Billboard Magazine, the 2013 Grammy
Awards, a Chevrolet Super Bowl commercial, TV's Glee
(which adapted the group's pop-rock anthem "We Are
Young" for an episode that aired during the show's third
season) and legions of fans, that would be a definite "yes:'
The Grammy winners for Best New Artist and Song
of the Year (for "We Are Young") are rooted in the indie
scenes of their respective hometowns, where each was in
various bands throughout grammar school before coming
together and moving to New York City.

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