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  • Kari Ely as Golde (R) and Bruce Sabath as Tevye (L) and in STAGES' production of 'Fiddler On The Roof' in St. Louis, September 6, 2014.
    Kari Ely as Golde (R) and Bruce Sabath as Tevye (L) and in STAGES' production of 'Fiddler On The Roof' in St. Louis, September 6, 2014.
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    Here’s to You, Jewish Moms of Musical Theater

    The Jewish moms—including Golde from ‘Fiddler’ and Trina from ‘Falsettos’—who deserve our reverence. Also, call your mother already.

    byGabriela Geselowitz
  • Barbra Streisand performs onstage during the Oscars in Hollywood, California, February 24, 2013.
    Barbra Streisand performs onstage during the Oscars in Hollywood, California, February 24, 2013.
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    Streisand Will Not Star in ‘Gypsy’ Film Adaptation After All

    Even for Barbra fans that’s good news, because the musical needs a live audience to work its magic

    byRachel Shukert
  • Katharine McPhee as Karen Cartwright on Smash(NBC)
    Katharine McPhee as Karen Cartwright on Smash(NBC)
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    Sitting Shiva for Smash

    The show’s demise is a blow for musical theater—the art that incorporates virtually every other form of art

    byRachel Shukert
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    Convivencia

    A plaintive Gypsy song, possibly of Ladino origin, is hybridized and reinterpreted, then viewed on the Internet, where roots and homelands blur

    byAndré Aciman
  • Amr Moussa (R) with Hamas’s leader and deputy leader.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
    Amr Moussa (R) with Hamas’s leader and deputy leader.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Daybreak: Change Is Coming to Egypt

    Plus CUNY trustee digs deeper, and more in the news

    byMarc Tracy
  • Barbra Streisand in November.(Mike Coppola/Getty Images for National Museum of American Jewish History)
    Barbra Streisand in November.(Mike Coppola/Getty Images for National Museum of American Jewish History)
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    Sundown: Gaza’s ‘Planned’ Economy

    Plus Mama Streisand, Judah Magnes, and more

    byMarc Tracy
  • Moses (Seth Rudetsky) parts the Red Sea as, from left, Hebrew No. 1 (Rachel Shukert), Aaron (Dan Fishback), and Pharaoh (Matt Cavenaugh) look on(Len Small/Tablet Magazine)
    Moses (Seth Rudetsky) parts the Red Sea as, from left, Hebrew No. 1 (Rachel Shukert), Aaron (Dan Fishback), and Pharaoh (Matt Cavenaugh) look on(Len Small/Tablet Magazine)
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    Everything’s Coming Up Moses

    Songs from Tablet Magazine’s ‘Gypsy’-inspired Passover musical

    byRachel Shukert
  • (Courtesy of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives)
    (Courtesy of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives)
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    Unleavened

    Questions, answers, entrances, and exoduses—our complete Passover coverage

    byTablet Magazine
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    Kindred Spirits

    The overlapping musical traditions of the Roma and the Jews

    byAlexander Gelfand
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