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…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . George Cantor's Reality Check column will return next week. Greenberg's View The Key To Israel's Future I by the Israeli government. The effective- n 85 short years, Israel has trans- ness of the Israeli university system is formed itself from a Third World, agrarian country with little water and undeniable. An exclamation point has few resources into a high-tech,...…
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…410 Arts & Entertainment Broadway Bound Detroit-area native Marcia Milgrom Dodge directs and choreographs a Big Apple revival of Ragtime. Alice Burdick Schweiger Special to the Jewish News M arcia Milgrom Dodge thought her career as a musical theater director and choreographer couldn't get any better. Then she got the phone call — and it did. The Kennedy Center's dazzling production of Ragtime, in Washington, D.C., for which Dodge had cr...…
…Arts & Entertainment The Man With A Camera Exhibit brings fashion photographs of Richard Avedon to Detroit Institute of Arts. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News r ed American fashion photogra- pher Richard Avedon, shortly after World War II, drove around Paris before deciding where to pose famed dothing designer Coco Chanel for a magazine shoot. Apparently, his Jewish roots (he was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants) held their...…
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…The Jewish Ensemble Theatre presents... Arty & Entertainment The Blank Page y Kitty Dubin With the deadline for her second novel looming, a creative writing professor is mired in self-doubt while work, family and a gifted new student threaten to drag her under. As she struggles to finish the novel, conflicts erupt with her husband, her best friend and her oh-so-talented student. Michigan playwright and professor Kitty Dubin explores the sh...…
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