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Theater ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ lyricist Sheldon Harnick dies at 99
Harnick put words to Jewish life — past and present
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Culture A famous rabbi’s son died of a disease like the one in Broadway’s ‘Kimberly Akimbo’
Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People’ after his son died of progeria. Here's why his daughter hasn't seen the Tony-winning show
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Theater The Tonys honored plays about antisemitism — the winners were eager to talk about anything else
Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber and Alfred Uhry all missed an opportunity to speak to what their plays were about
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Fast Forward Antisemitism-themed ‘Leopoldstadt’ and ‘Parade’ are big Tony Awards winners
Multiple Jewish winners used their speeches to exhort against other forms of hate
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Fast Forward The cast of Broadway’s ‘Parade’ says Kaddish before each show, says star Micaela Diamond
'It is an expression of community as we tell this hard story,' writes the actress who plays Lucille Frank in a show about the antisemitic lynching of Frank’s husband Leo.
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Fast Forward Film version of ‘Soul Doctor,’ the Shlomo Carlebach-Nina Simone musical, to hit US theaters for 1 night
The show, which debuted on Broadway in 2013, was made before the #MeToo movement intensified scrutiny of the sexual misconduct allegations against the pioneering rabbi
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