Jeremy Gerard
By Jeremy Gerard
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Community A paean to camp: ‘I was a NFTY kid’
I am watching faded, ghostly but joyously animated images on my screen — a screen larger than that of any TV we might have owned in the summer of 1966 when my father shot this film with his new Super 8mm movie camera. There are boys in crisp white shirts and pressed trousers, many of…
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Theater For Dori Berinstein, ‘The Prom’ Is A Heartland Show With A Jewish Soul
Dori Berinstein’s latest Broadway venture, “The Prom,” was sparked by a Mississippi media circus and a two-sentence pitch. In the spring of 2010, the circus paraded through Itawamba County Agricultural High School. The school, near Tupelo, canceled its senior prom rather than allow Constance McMillen to bring her girlfriend to the dance and, possibly worse,…
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Culture Long Before ‘Oklahoma!’ There Was A Real Jewish Oklahoma
If, as Oscar Hammerstein II wrote in “Oklahoma!”, “the farmer and the cowman should be friends,” a hoedown was probably the least likely place for them to voice their grievances. No matter how catchy Richard Rodgers’ melody for the inviting square dance staged by Agnes de Mille, the menacing menfolk most certainly would have required…
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