Another Jewish Voice of Santa Fe, a grassroots organization of progressive Jews and friends, presents "Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza" by Caryl Churchill on Sunday, July 12, 7:pm, at El Museo Cultural, 1615-B Paseo De Peralta. This ten minute play, in seven segments, suggests discrete stages of Jewish/Zionist/Israeli history beginning with the Holocaust and ending with the events in Gaza in January. Directed by Maura Dhu Studi, the play is followed by a facilitated discussion. Churchill asks "that no admission fee be charged and that a collection is taken at each performance for Medical Aid for Palestinians." For more info call 820-6476.
For some background and analysis of this challenging play, read Tony Kushner's and Alisa Solomon's excellent article 'Tell Her the Truth' in The Nation.
Ellen Fox, AJVSF member and actor in the play, and Maura Dhu Studi, director, were interviewed several days before the performance on KSFR 101.1 FM by Mary-Charlotte, host of the Santa Fe Radio Café. Listen to the interview by clicking here.
2 comments:
Seven Jewish Children is just another anti-Semitic screed masked by the claim that it is anti-Zionistic. Anti-Zionism is the language of polite company. Yet they both have the same goal, the destruction of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Why you would laud and support Seven Jewish Children is beyond my comprehension.
Dear Mr. Flatow,
We support this play because we are making an inquiry into unexamined assumptions about the presumed necessity of violence ( and it's effects on Israelis and the rest of us Jews) to support a Jewish state. We are concerned about the immediate and long term effects of the Occupation - moral, spiritual, economic and social on both populations. We seek to restore fundamental Jewish values of liberty and justice for all.
Remember Micah?
We also reject the automatic condemnation of criticism of Israel as anti-semitic. We invite you to look deeper.
Ellen Fox
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