Archive for May, 2008
MADE IN NEW ORLEANS
By Tom Teicholz at 29 May, 2008, 9:09 pm
It’s 2 a.m., and there’s a crowd on St. Peter’s Street in New Orleans’
French Quarter; people are waiting to see the Stanton Moore Trio play
Preservation Hall.
Midnight and early morning shows during Jazzfest are part of a new
tradition initiated by Benjamin Jaffe, Preservation Hall’s creative
director, the man charged with safeguarding New Orleans’ musical
traditions, managing the Preservation [...]
Post-Zionism in a diaspora world
By Tom Teicholz at 15 May, 2008, 10:58 am
What does it mean to be a Jew in a Post-Zionist world?
For centuries, for Jews, the notion of living free in Zion was a dream.
In Theodor Herzl’s famous essay, “The Jewish State,” the journalist and
playwright transformed the dream of living in a Jewish state into a
goal.
“Next year in Jerusalem,” the words we say at the [...]