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Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, whose fieldwork with elderly Jews in Venice, California yielded an Academy Award-winning documentary (1977) and book (1979) about aging and philosophies of life, Number Our Days, was born in Cleveland on this date in 1935. Myerhoff received her Ph.D from the University of California in 1968. Her dissertation and first book focused […]
Read Moreby Elliot B. Gertel CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, the new CW melodrama-musical, is reminiscent in genre of ABC’s Cop Rock (1990), the current Sir Galavant, and the music and humor in Seth MacFarlane’s TV series. Rachel Bloom plays Rebecca Bunch, a high-earning but socially awkward New York attorney who decides to give up her practice and settle […]
Read Moreby Nicole Bindler This is a revised and much-expanded version of a piece first published by thINKingDANCE June 9 (2015) I arrive in Tel Aviv at 2:30 a.m. I get through security without a hitch. I was advised to say that I’m going to Israel to hang out with friends because many people (including Diyar’s […]
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