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A play reading of "A People" by L.M. Feldman. "A People" By LM Feldman A magical, lyrical journey into heritage, tradition, religion and humanity. Through vignettes, music and monologues, Lauren Feldman holds up a mirror to 4000 years of Jewish history, reminding us that we’re all descendants from somewhere, and we choose to embrace our lineage, deny it, or wrestle with it. Hilarious and terrifyingly honest, A People gathers a tight ensemble of ten performers, taking on a mass of old and new world personalities to create snippets of life the way we see it, the way we want it [...]

A play reading of "A People" by L.M. Feldman. "A People" By LM Feldman A magical, lyrical journey into heritage, tradition, religion and humanity. Through vignettes, music and monologues, Lauren Feldman holds up a mirror to 4000 years of Jewish history, reminding us that we’re all descendants from somewhere, and we choose to embrace our lineage, deny it, or wrestle with it. Hilarious and terrifyingly honest, A People gathers a tight ensemble of ten performers, taking on a mass of old and new world personalities to create snippets of life the way we see it, the way we want it [...]

A play reading of "A People" by L.M. Feldman."A People"By LM Feldman A magical, lyrical journey into heritage, tradition, religion and humanity. Through vignettes, music and monologues, Lauren Feldman holds up a mirror to 4000 years of Jewish history, reminding us that we’re all descendants from somewhere, and we choose to embrace our lineage, deny it, or wrestle with it. Hilarious and terrifyingly honest, A People gathers a tight ensemble of ten performers, taking on a mass of old and new world personalities to create snippets of life the way we see it, the way we want it to be, and [...]

A play reading of "The Soap Myth" By Jeff Cohen The Soap Myth By Jeff Cohen Set more than fifty years after WWII, a young Jewish reporter grapples with the question – did the Nazis make soap from the corpses of murdered Jews? The Soap Myth dramatizes the confrontation between survivors, scholars, and Holocaust deniers, and questions who has the right to write history. Tickets are free and donations are encouraged. YI Love Play Readings 2023-2024 Season With a seven-year history of play readings as a way to educate and entertain, YI Love Jewish now has developed a year-long series [...]

A play reading of "The Soap Myth" By Jeff CohenThe Soap Myth By Jeff CohenSet more than fifty years after WWII, a young Jewish reporter grapples with the question – did the Nazis make soap from the corpses of murdered Jews? The Soap Myth dramatizes the confrontation between survivors, scholars, and Holocaust deniers, and questions who has the right to write history.Tickets are free and donations are encouraged. YI Love Play Readings 2023-2024 SeasonWith a seven-year history of play readings as a way to educate and entertain, YI Love Jewish now has developed a year-long series that includes scholarly lectures with [...]

A play reading of "THE MONEYLENDER OF VENICE" By Peter FilichiaTHE MONEYLENDER OF VENICE By Peter FilichiaA leaner – but by no means meaner!Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s THE MERCHANT OF VENICEAn ANTI-antisemitic version of Shakespeare’s most controversial play becomes heartwarming when the Jew Shylock is given a choice between keeping his family and exacting his revenge on an enemy.Tickets are free and donations are encouraged. YI Love Play Readings 2023-2024 SeasonWith a seven-year history of play readings as a way to educate and entertain, YI Love Jewish now has developed a year-long series that includes scholarly lectures with an aim to [...]

A play reading of "THE MONEYLENDER OF VENICE" By Peter FilichiaTHE MONEYLENDER OF VENICE By Peter FilichiaA leaner – but by no means meaner!Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s THE MERCHANT OF VENICEAn ANTI-antisemitic version of Shakespeare’s most controversial play becomes heartwarming when the Jew Shylock is given a choice between keeping his family and exacting his revenge on an enemy.Tickets are free and donations are encouraged. YI Love Play Readings 2023-2024 SeasonWith a seven-year history of play readings as a way to educate and entertain, YI Love Jewish now has developed a year-long series that includes scholarly lectures with an aim to [...]

A play reading of "Go Down, Moses" By Dana Leslie Goldstein.G o D o w n , M o s e sBy Dana Leslie GoldsteinSYNOPSIS: It’s 1985. Ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker already have a long history. They marched side by side for civil rights, registered voters together during freedom summer, and have maintained a friendship that crosses the boundaries of race, religion and country of birth. Now they work at a small, liberal university, where part of the job is training a new crop of activists. When a star student from the South [...]

A play reading of "Go Down, Moses" By Dana Leslie Goldstein. G o D o w n , M o s e s By Dana Leslie Goldstein SYNOPSIS: It’s 1985. Ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker already have a long history. They marched side by side for civil rights, registered voters together during freedom summer, and have maintained a friendship that crosses the boundaries of race, religion and country of birth. Now they work at a small, liberal university, where part of the job is training a new crop of activists. When a star [...]

A play reading of "Go Down, Moses" By Dana Leslie Goldstein.G o D o w n , M o s e sBy Dana Leslie GoldsteinSYNOPSIS: It’s 1985. Ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker already have a long history. They marched side by side for civil rights, registered voters together during freedom summer, and have maintained a friendship that crosses the boundaries of race, religion and country of birth. Now they work at a small, liberal university, where part of the job is training a new crop of activists. When a star student from the South [...]