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The next time I saw those bullies,
I was at a party and I asked them to battle me…
but this time it wasn’t a fake boxing match
It was a fight in song, a fight in word, a fight in dance, a fight about
peace, and a fight about real history…
Fourth set of notes from the Jerusalem Film Festival from Tikkun’s correspondent Olga Gershenson!
Fourth set of notes from the Jerusalem Film Festival from Tikkun’s correspondent Olga Gershenson!
Third set of notes from the Jerusalem Film Festival from Tikkun’s correspondent Olga Gershenson!
More notes from the Jerusalem Film Festival in Jerusalem from Tikkun’s correspondent Olga Gershenson!
We at Tikkun have the good fortune to have U Mass Amherst professor of Film Studies and Jewish Studies Olga Gershenson reporting for us on the Jerusalem Film Festival. These are short snippets that give our readers some feel for what is being presented in Israel at the moment
The drugs were part of, maybe the essence of, cool. They fused with the jazz, the smoky dark interiors, the nodding knowingness of a beckoning life.
In each generation there is one righteous person worthy of being the Messiah. In this generation the Svenssens were certain it was their candidate.
In the 1980’s, few Americans knew much about life in the territories Israel had occupied in 1967. Fewer still understood the PLO’s historic offer to settle for a state in less than half what had been Palestine. Yet in 1989, the San Francisco Mime Troupe produced Seeing Double, a mistaken-identity farce that argued for a two-state solution. The seeming unfitness of the genre for the topic proved the secret of the show’s success: laughter allows room for hope.
Twenty-eight years later, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is better understood, but no closer to resolution. Indeed, decades of US military and diplomatic support for Israel’s actions and its “facts on the ground”, have made a solution increasingly unlikely. Last summer, the writers of Seeing Double decided we would update the play, to fit today’s harsher realities and to address the U.S. role.
“Nancy Pelosi is a bad, or sick, woman for opposing our offer of health care coverage to most younger, healthier and higher-earning Americans. Such a nasty woman—a terrible, low-energy leader.”