Judaism
iPhoto caption: Playing Shylock production still by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: In Playing Shylock, Saul Rubinek asks: ‘Am I Jewish enough yet?’
Theatre is consistently poised on a precipice where we worry that things will shut down because people care too little, or things will shut down because people care too much. In the nexus between those two states sits Saul Rubinek, espousing the fervent hope that theatre will, instead, teach us to care for each other.
iPhoto caption: Barbara Gordon, Bahareh Yaraghi, Niki Landau, Blair Williams and Diane Flacks in Unholy. Photo by John Lauener.
Like almost every leftie Jew, progressive Muslim, or lapsed Catholic, I come by my mistrust of religion honestly.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
If there’s anything my own religious journey has taught me, it’s that the tension between belief and doubt is what gives us the tools to try and answer the core questions “What should we believe?” and “How should we live?”