Community Sights set on the US after double theatre success
FOR the second year in a row, Jewish cousins Steven and Joshua Brandon have taken out a major prize at the AussieTheatre.com Awards…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 2007
82 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 5
Trumpeting new year surprise for band
IF one’s New Year’s Eve offers a taste of the year to come, then Sydney singer Ilan Kidron is in for a rocking 2007. Kidron, the front man for the pop…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arts Sydney’s dancing masterstroke, Israel's colourful masterpiece Dance review Batsheva’s Telophaza
ISRAEL’S Batsheva Dance Company has long enjoyed a global reputation for brilliant conceptual creativity and execution. The pity is that its first Sydney season is so short,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →By the numbers Israel-based Batsheva Dance Company opened the Sydney Festival last week
55 dancers make up Batsheva’s senior and junior dance companies. 3 dances, Kamuyot, Telophaza and Mamootot, are being performed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coming to a theatre near you From thrillers to family comedies and a new film by Woody Allen, Don Perlgut presents a guide to this year’s top Jewish-themed films
BY examining which Jewish stories, characters and themes make their way into popular…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Summer dancin' The Aussie Dance Camp was held January 15-19 at the Church in the Market Place at Bondi Junction
Ariella and Jared Gold. Danielle Herman (left), Melanie Vesely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A day at the Open with a Jewish flavour The 2007 Australian Open carnival rolled into Melbourne on Monday, and brought with it a strong contingent of Jewish players, officials, ball kids and - most notably - some unapologetically rabid supporters. Sports editor Adam Kamien spent the day taking in the colour and infiltrating Israel's answer to ‘the Fanatics’
THE strains of Am Yisrael Chail echo around the arena at Melbourne Park as Israeli newcomer Dudi Sela plays each…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Batsheva’s sensual swan song Dance review MAMOOTOT/KAMUYOT
FOLLOWING its impressive Sydney Festival opener — Telophaza at the Capitol — Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company fielded nine dancers on a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A picture’s worth... an AJN holiday
A FAMILY trip to Wet’n'Wild theme park on the Gold Coast has resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Community Yiddish concert strikes a chord with Muslim diplomat
ALL walks of life, a multicultural group of young and old, packed into Hakoah Club’s Gold Star Room last Saturday evening to see Yiddish singer Fay Sussman perform. And in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →been & seen Yiddish jazz concert at Hakoah Fay Sussman and Daniel Weltlinger performed on February 3 to a packed hall at Flakoah Club. Photos: Ingrid Shakenovsky
From left: Nicole Sussman, Lisa Zines and Jenny Kantorovich. From left: Ettie Moss, Daniel Weltlinger, Millicent Braham…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Arts Mr Saturday Night puts on his Sunday best Theatre review 700 SUNDAYS
EVEN during life’s darkest hours, we have to find a reason to laugh. And from the moment Billy Crystal walks out of the front door of a huge replica…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ZDVO hosts IDF veteran Shani Kotev, an IDF war veteran who was paralysed while fighting terrorists in 2002, addressed more than 400 people at the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organisation’s fundraising event on February 17 at the IMAX theatre
Shani Kotev (left), Michael Balkin. From left Barry and Raquel Grossman, Sam and Lori Abeshouse…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Celebrating women across the ages Theatre review From Door to Door
HERE’S a rare opportunity - a richly-Jewish comedy that touches the heart as well as the funny bone, is professionally produced and acted by a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →join amen band Saturday, March 31,7.30Pm
Amir Paiss (left), Gabriel Meyer and other Israeli musicians perform as the Amen Band at Temple Emanuel Woollahra. Cost: $20/$15 concession. Inquiries: (02) 9328 7833…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lior wows Port Fairy Concert review LIOR
SYDNEY singer songwriter Lior was one of the star performers at the annual Port Fairy Folk Festival which attracted about 15,000 music lovers to the Victorian seaside town…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bar Mitzvah Dance Marathon
BYRON BAY — The shire’s growing Jewish community welcomed its newest bar mitzvah boy in a 10-hour communal dance test last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BJE theatre party Academy BJE hosted a theatre party to see From Door to Door on March 18 at the Seymour Centre
From left: Eran Weiner, Sarah and John Friend, Sylvia Luikens. Bonita Levy (left), Jodi Kofsky. Helen Reiner (left), Irene Goldberg…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →TV guide Band of Brothers Foxtel, The Hlstoiy Channel, Friday, March 30, 9.30pm
Steven Spielberg's award-winning World War II mini-series follows Easy Company, a unit of 147 combat paratroopers, from their gruelling basic training to the bloody beaches of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sondheim musical worth waiting for Theatre review Sunday in the Park with George
IN its premiere season on Broadway in 1984, Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book), won 11 major awards. A year…
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