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Lisa Traiger

By Lisa Traiger

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Stepping Into the Future

Part Two of Two At New York’s 60th annual Israel Folk Dance Festival, held in April, a few dozen dancers at the opening session circled to their favorite Hebrew songs, those that recalled a time when Israel was a vibrant new nation. With plenty of gray heads and bottle brunettes among them, the middle-aged and…

By Lisa Traiger Apr 20, 2011 | 6 min read
Culture
From Zero to 4,678 in 80 Short Years

Part One of Two In 1924 there was just one Israeli folk dance, “Hora Agadati,” created in Tel Aviv. Within a year of gaining statehood, Israel could boast 75 folk dances. And by 2005 there were 4,678, according to Dina Roginsky, an anthropologist and lecturer at Yale University who has studied the growth of Israeli…

By Lisa Traiger Mar 22, 2011 | 4 min read
Culture
The Right To Return to a Home

When Washington, D.C.’s Theater J announced that its season featured a play based on a story from a Palestinian author with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, it raised hackles within segments of the D.C. metropolitan Jewish community. The work, “Return to Haifa,” arrived from Tel Aviv on January 15 for…

By Lisa Traiger Jan 19, 2011 | 5 min read
Culture
A New Play Lifts Veil on Insular Syrian-Jewish Community

David Adjmi’s newest play terrifies him. It’s provocative and unflinching in its representation of a specific Jewish community as materialistic, close-minded, insular to a fault. Granted, among Adjmi’s other produced works — “The Evildoers,” which packed up a run at Yale Repertory Theatre this past month, and “Elective Affinities,” his meditation following the attacks of…

By Lisa Traiger Mar 13, 2008 | 4 min read

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