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For a small country, Latvia has an impressive Jewish legacy that includes the violinist Gidon Kremer, the painter Mark Rothko and the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Sergei Eisenstein, who filmed “The Battleship Potemkin,” came from a Latvian Jewish family, as did the conductor Mariss Jansons, whose mother escaped the Riga Ghetto just before his birth. Yet […]
In a ‘lucky convergence of a space and a story,’ the historic sanctuary figures prominently in ‘Goldstein: The Musical.’
If the seder is a family drama around the dinner table, with the haggadah as our script, we are charged to be method actors when we play it out: to take a leap of spiritual imagination and see and feel our way into this story, as if we ourselves had come out of Egypt. There are stage […]