A new song about an old problem by Clare Burson http://yourlisten.com/LABA/share-share-share Share Not having read or thought much about the story of Jacob and Esau since I was 9 or 10 years old, re-reading the story now, as an adult and as a mother, I was struck most by what terrible parenting Isaac and Rebecca exhibit in
On censored comics and the werewolves of Canaan By Eli Valley Share Like the Bible, comics are twisted dreamscapes. For a time, these dreamscapes were pure, kinetic visual passion, unbound by rules of propriety. Then, in 1954, after ceaseless harassment by government and church leaders outraged over comics’ often horrific, violent and even politically subversive content, the industry
A Modern Rebecca Confesses By Sarah Seltzer When I re-read the story of Jacob and Esau with LABA and realized that its denouement was Jacob’s exile from his family, from his own mother, I was shocked. I thought it might be fun to re-imagine her scheming with another layer
The fugitive on why he did it and the difference between food and a meal By Elissa Strauss Jacob, son of Isaac, has been on the run for two months after taking, some say illegally, most say immorally, his brother Esau’s birthright. Yesterday we sat down with Jacob for an exclusive interview about how he
Karen Hartman is the award-winning author of Goldie, Max & Milk,Goliath, Leah’s Train, Gum and more than fifteen other plays and musical works. Her plays have been produced regionally and in New York, and are published by Theater Communications Group, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Backstage Books, and NoPassport Press. Awards: New Dramatists residency, Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, the N.E.A., the Helen
An Architect Prescribes the Ten Things a Scholar Needs in a City by Ghiora Aharoni As articulated in the Babylonian Talmud, the criteria for a city where a scholar should reside paint a picture via various requisites of life (Synagogue, slaughterer, surgeon, schoolmaster), and also present a historical portrait of the basic needs of
A look into the bleuprint of life on the road by Stephen Hazan Arnoff During the years that I banged out a modest living as a musician playing bars, frat houses, weddings, coffee houses, college lawns, the street, and summer festivals on the part of the bill when sometimes the cotton candy machines were not
Reflections from Scholars and Others By Karen Loew The question of what features make a city fit for a scholar prods us all to think about what we need or want in our city, our neighborhood, even our community center. What makes a place fit for me? Related to
Or how I, once again, discovered that I am indeed quite Jewish by Elissa Strauss In my early 20s I left Australia, where I had been living for a few months, and went alone to Southeast Asia looking for adventure and enlightenment. I wasn’t ignorant of the
A New Talmud-inspired poem by Eugene Ostashevsky 1. Once upon a time there was a scholar who resided in a town without a court of justice that imposes flagellation and decrees penalties. So what happened? His phone rang. “Hello, caller,” said the scholar. “I represent a charity fund collected by two and distributed by