Psyched for HSC with Band 6 jumpers
MASADA College year 11 students are getting psyched up for their upcoming High School Certificate (HSC) Hebrew exams in a novel way…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 2008
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Feynman in the spotlight once again Theatre review QED Peter Parnell
PROLIFIC American playwright Peter Parnell came up with an inspired choice with his play QED about the brilliant Jewish American physicist Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Visa problems put concert at risk
AFTER two months of preparation, an Israeli band slated to perform after an oration by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin may have to cancel their performance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →enjoy ahavat israel concert Saturday, June 14, 7.30PM
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin will speak at a concert by Benzion Lehrer and his Returning Light Band at Chabad Double Bay. Bookings: www.quicktix.com.au or call 1300 552 130…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A harmonious ‘mind-altering’ boy-band Theatre review Altar Boyz
FROM the moment the five-member boyband with four Christians and a token Jew walk – well, pose – on stage, singing, “We’re gonna altar your mind”, in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Improvisations Theatre Guru
PAUL Sills, a founder of improvisational sketch comedy, died at the age of 80. Sills, born Paul Silverberg, founded in 1959 Chicago-based theatre company Second City,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Riskin and concert sell-out success
“IT was nothing short of a miracle,” concert organiser Stuart Sontag said about the Ahavat Israel Concert held at Chabad Double Bay on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Awakening fame for young theatre actor
IT’S been a little more than a year since Aaron Orzech got his first real break when a director plucked him from a university production to appear in Phillip Ridley’s Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Senior citizens concert North Shore Temple Emanuel hosted more than 400 people at its 25th-annual senior citizens concert on May 25
Photos: Natalie Brem From left: Annelise Lippman, Ilse Meyer and Gerada Buckwalter. Concert organisers Nola and Garry Braude…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Montefiore concert The Montefiore Ladies’ Committee hosted a concert on June 15, with cabaret singer Karen Beckett
Nancye and Hal Goldstein. Rita Weinberg (left), Ruth Shell…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Israeli drama strikes a chord Film review the Band's Visit
IT made it on to a number of “top 10” movie lists for 2007. It won eight Israeli Film Academy awards (and was nominated for another five), two European Film Awards,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farewell concert at Emanuel Abraham Singer gave a farewell concert on June 22 at Emanuel Synagogue, prior to his departure to perform with the Cologne Opera
From left Kate Golla, Abraham Singer, Andrea Catzel. From left: Diane Berkowitz, Louise Whitby on. and Gavin Morris…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →watch the band's visit JULY
Award-winning Israeli film The Band's visit, about the misadventures of the Egyptian Alexandrian Police Band, screens nationally during July…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leonard Bernsteins Young People's Concerts Foxtel, Ovation, Wednesday, July 16, 4pm
Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shmooze Hamish and Andy Dance the Hora shmooze@jewishnews.net.au
TOP-RATING radio hosts Hamish Blake and Andy Lee were in party mode at the weekend when they attended 42 parties in Queensland, NSW and Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A klezmer band of brothers Chantal Abitbol talks to Olivier Slabiak from French klezmer group Les Yeux Noirs about heritage, brotherly love and their upcoming Australian tour
FRENCH violin virtuosos and brothers Eric and Olivier Slabiak - the cofounders of Parisian septet Les Yeux Noir - couldn’t help being drawn to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →2Metro Theatre, Tuesday 5th August Band of Horses
Plotting the rise of a pop-indie Australian following is as simple as following a fairly standard formula. 1) US band releases wide-eyed, earnest yet enthusiastic first…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Roll over Beethoven, IPO makes triumphant return Conceit review Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
THE audible buzz around town since the announcement that the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) would be performing three concerts at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Family drama makes the cut Theatre review Cut and Paste
CARLA Moore’s poignant new Australian drama Cut and Paste pivots around chronically ill 13-year-old schoolboy Thomas (Cam McCallum), who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →CAMILLE. Pour la première fois, la doyenne de la “Nouvelle scène française se rend en Australie où elle donnera des concerts à Melbourne, Sydney et Brisbane
Auteur, compositeur et interprète, Camille se distingue entre autres par son éclectisme et son originalité créatrice. Elle mélange les genres et rejette la standardisation. Son style pop/folk très…
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