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"The Megillah According to Motown" to be
presented March 22-23 at Ohef Sholom Temple
For the seventh consecutive
year, Ohef Sholom Temple will
present its annual Purimspiel, a
farcical telling of the Purim story
set to song, on Saturday March
22 at 7 p.m. and on Sunday,
March 23 at 3 p.m. at the temple.
Purim celebrates the events
related in the Book of Esther
when the Jewish people were
saved from Haman's plot to
destroy them all. Traditional
observance calls for the reading
of the Megillah in which the
story is told and the mood is fun
as everyone makes noise to
drown out Haman's name and
children dress as King
Ahashverosh, Queen Esther,
Mordechai and Haman.
The Ohef Sholom cast of
more than 35 performers, ages
four to "70ish," will sing and
perform the story with lyrics set
to favorite Motown tunes under
the direction of Cantor Jennifer
Bern-Vogel. The "Megillah
According to Motown" is based
on a script by New Yorker Nor-
man Roth, with revised songs
and libretto by Ira Vogel. It fea-
tures classic Motown songs by
the Supremes, The Jackson 5 and
Stevie Wonder, to name a few.
Castle Craddock serves as assis-
tant director, Robert Brown as
music director, and Pam Snyder
as costume designer.
Last year's "The Megillah
According to Disney," earned
rave reviews and was close to a
sell-out.
Concessions, including haman-
tashen, popcorn, candy and bev-
erages, will be sold during inter-
mission by the Temple's Sister-
hood.
The show is slated to take
place in Ohef Sholom's Kauf-
man Hall with theater-style seat-
ing. General admission tickets
are $5 and may be purchased at
the temple office. Ohef Sholom
is located at the corner of Stock-
ley Gardens and Raleigh Avenue
in Ghent. For more information,
please contact Lynn Evans at
757-625-4295.
The 2003 Old Dominion Uni-
versity Film and Video Festival,
titled "Soundtracks: Music in
Film and Television," will be
held March 30-April 4. All
events are free and open to the
public and will take place on the
Old Dominion campus in room
102 of the Mills Godwin Jr. Life
Sciences Building unless noted.
Keynote events include a pre-
sentation by B.J. Leiderman,
award-winning National Public
Radio composer and a Virginia
Beach resident, who will discuss
his life as a self-described
"theme-music junkie" at noon
Wednesday, April 2, in Chandler
Recital Hall of the Diehn Fine
and Performing Arts Center.
WHRV radio personality and
local jazz musician Jae Sinnett
will discuss "Jazz in Film" at
12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April I.
Also on April 1, a 6:30 p.m. per-
March 14,
formance by local band "Fat
Tony" will precede a screening
of the film "O Brother, Where
Art Thou?" at 7:15 p.m.
The festival's first public
event is "Major Jewish Film
Composers from the Golden Age
of Hollywood," an examination
of the role of music in film, with
attention given to some of the
different techniques used by
composers that result in particu-
lar emotional responses in view-
ers, presented by Katherine Pre-
ston, associate professor and
chair of the Department of Music
at The College of William and
Mary at 2 p.m. Sunday, March
30.
Parking is free. More infor-
mation is available by calling
683-3828; via email at film-
fest@odu.edu; or via the Web at
www.odu.edu/filmfest.
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• The state sanctioned culture of
hate.
• A critical mass of hate.
• The religious underpinnings of
hate.
• The global nature of this
hatred.
• The immediacy of transmis-
sion of the hatred using mod-
em technology, including the
internet,
• The appropriation of Christian
anti-Semitic canards and
myths.
• The treason of the intellectuals,
as per Israel bashing occurring
on college campuses, by facul-
ty and students.
• The mass media use of anti-
Jewishness, as for example the
41 part series on Egyptian tele-
vision of "The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion."
• The lethality of the hatred.
• The ubiquity of Nazi character-
ization of Israel and Jews.
• And, finally, the toxic conver-
gence of all of it.
What a litany of hatred! So,
what can we do about it? "It is our
responsibility to point out the dan- i
ger," said Professor Coffer. ',Anti-
Semitism is the proverbial canary
in the pantheon of evil." It under- :
mines the integrity of the United
Nations. It undermines human
rights laws and is an assault upon
international law.
Congress has introduced a
Concurrent Resolution (House
Resolution 49 and Senate Resolu-
tion 7) condemning the interna-
tional reemergence of anti-Semi-
tism. It calls upon the European
nations in the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) to condemn anti-
Semitism and to raise the issue in
every international forum.
We are not powerless as we
were in the 1930's. We can raise
our voices and demand that others
do the same. Our Congressional
delegation supports us in this.
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