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20 Federation Star July/August 2018 Stars of David By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jewish parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are also identified as Jewish. Summer Nights at the Movies Opening Friday, June 29, is Under the Silver Lake, a mystery in the “film noir” style. Sam (ANDREW GARFIELD, 34) lives in the L.A. neighborhood called Silver Lake. Sam’s life isn’t going that well and things get really weird when he sees a young woman frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. She mysteriously disappears and Sam goes on a quest across L.A. to find out what happened to her. Like in the 1940s “noirs,” he has to plumb the depths of scandal and conspiracy. The supporting cast includes ZOSIA MAMET, 30 (Girls), the daughter of famous playwright DAVID MAMET, 70. Garfield just won the Tony for lead actor in a play (Angels in America) and got a best actor Oscar nomination for Hacksaw Ridge (2017). Much lighter is Ant-Man and the Wasp. It features Marvel heroes with the incredible ability to shrink. PAUL RUDD, 49, who starred in the 2015 film Ant-Man, reprises that title role in this film. Evangeline Lily, who had a co-starring role as the Wasp in the 2015 film, returns for the sequel. The plot has Ant-Man (AKA Scott Lang) torn between his new role as a husband and father and the call of duty when the Wasp says she really, really needs his help. (Opens Friday, July 6) Heads-Up on Light Summer Fare Comedian HOWIE MANDEL, 63, hosts the new Nat Geo Wild series Animal Doing Things (Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.; began June 16). The show features the best, never-before-seen animal videos submitted to the popular Instagram account @AnimalsDoingThings. Each video is hosted by Mandel, who provides funny narration and witty commentary before and/or after the videos. Food and Hedy ANTHONY BOURDAIN, hands down, was the best host of a travel and cooking show. (Bourdain was the alwayssecular son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father.) However, PHIL ROSENTHAL’s Netflix series, Somebody Feed Phil, is at least in the same league as Bourdain’s shows. It is a witty and interesting look at the cultures and food of the worldwide places Rosenthal visits. The show’s complete second season starts streaming on Friday, July 6. Rosenthal, 58, was the co-creator of the mega-hit Everybody Loves Raymond. He has been married since 1990 to MONICA HORAN, 55, who played Amy, the wife of Raymond’s policeman brother in Raymond. Now streaming on Netflix is Bombshell, a documentary about the life of actress and inventor HEDY LAMARR (1914-2000). The film had a limited theatrical opening last year. Few persons under 50 have even heard of Lamarr, but in her heyday, circa 1940, she was a big Hollywood star and was widely considered the most beautiful actress alive. In the last 25 years, another side of the actress has become known – her talent for invention. Lamarr, the child of affluent, assimilated Viennese Jews, led an extraordinary, improbable life, and that alone makes this well-crafted film JEWISH INTEREST Interested in Your Family’s History? Nate Bloom (see column at left) has become a family history expert in 10 years of doing his celebrity column, and he has expert friends who can help when called on. Most family history experts charge $1,000 or more to do a full family-tree search. However, Bloom knows that most people want to start with a limited search of one family line. So here’s the deal: Write Bloom at nteibloom@aol.com and enclose a phone number. Nate will then contact you about starting a limited search. If that goes well, additional and more extensive searches are possible. The first search fee is no more than $100. No upfront cost. Also, several of this newspaper’s readers have asked Bloom to locate friends and family members from their past, and that’s worked out great for them. So contact him about this as well. worth your time. Via interviews with her three children, and many others (including MEL BROOKS, 91), a full portrait of Lamarr emerges. But, be warned, it isn’t a happy story. Early on, Lamarr was interested in science, but that wasn’t, then, a viable career path for women. Her beauty led her into an acting career in European films and, later, in Hollywood pics. She sometimes had great courage. On the other hand, she cast off things that were “inconvenient,” like her Jewish background, her one adopted child and her five husbands. Much time is spent on her most famous invention: a way to make radio-controlled torpedoes invulnerable to “jamming” by Nazi subs. The Navy didn’t use the invention during WWII, but later, her “frequency hopping” idea became the basis for the way cell-phone calls, Wi-Fi and GPS are transmitted. (Enough spoilers! Watch it.) Probably Final Thoughts on Roseanne Barr In May, half my column was devoted to ROSEANNE BARR, 65. Readers might recall I said that she suffered from a personality disorder and I recounted how she swung, without explanation, from being virulently anti-Israel from 2009-2012 to being pro-Israel a couple of years later. A big problem, I said, was her use of Twitter to attack liberals and Muslims in vile personal terms, and her re-tweeting of crackpot, offensive conspiracy theories. While I didn’t use the term “loose cannon,” it was the subtext of my piece. So I wasn’t shocked when she self-destructed in May because she tweeted something so racist that it couldn’t be ignored or explained away. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS THEY HELP MAKE THE FEDERATION STAR POSSIBLE. 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JEWISH INTEREST July/August 2018 Federation Star The dilemma of Jewish women in Jewish music By Arlene Stolnitz Twenty-three names of female Jewish musicians; I could have named over a hundred! Randomly, I picked out only a few with the idea of showing just how prolific and diverse these women are, and what a fabulous contribution they have made to the Jewish and secular music world Arlene Stolnitz in America and elsewhere. Bonnie Abrams, Chava Albertson, Sara Aroeste, Marsha Bryan Edelman, Benjie Schiller, Debbie Friedman, Joy Katzen-Guthrie, Nurit Hirsch, Linda Hirschhorn, Flory Jagoda, Rachel Musleah, Neshama Carlebach, Roberta Peters, Molly Picon, Pink, Beth Schafer, Naomi Shemer, Dinah Shore, Beverly Sills, Carly Simon, Peri Smilow, Barbra Streisand, Sophie Tucker. For centuries, female singers such as balladeers and minstrels were confined to entertaining primarily at family celebrations for holidays and other simchas. The injunction against kol ishah (woman’s voice) limited the singing of women in religious liturgy from Talmudic times. As a result, Jewish women had their own separate places of song often in their homes and at private celebrations. However, there is plenty of evidence showing that there were women musicians present in biblical days. Many passages from the Bible quote the presence of women as instrumentalists and singers. In ancient Yemenite and other Middle Eastern cultures it was typical for women to provide the “wailing” at funerals. Much later, in Eastern Europe during the spread of the Haskalah Enlightenment period, when Yiddish culture flourished, the tradition of the troubadours and klezmorim remained largely the avenue of male entertainers. But in the late 1800s, Abraham Goldfaden developed a new genre of musical entertainment. Called the operetta, actors and singers traveled to Jewish communities in Russia, Austria, Romania and Poland with their performances. Young women were featured in roles previously reserved for male singers, paving the way later for women’s roles in America. Goldfaden’s influence is seen as an essential element in the development of Yiddish musical theater in America. In an article titled “Jewish Women and Jewish Music in America,” Adrienne Fried Block wrote: “American Jewish music has expanded vastly in variety, range and quality of activities. Jews brought to America their secular-folk and sacred-liturgical musical heritage. There has been a renascence of age-old traditions that have become means of self-expression for Jewish women. Religious freedom in the United States has been nourishing to Jewish women’s creativity as they increasingly make their marks as composers, organists, singers, instrumentalists, educators and patrons. Indeed, they are integral to what constitutes an extraordinarily rich American musical environment.” I understand the risk of being overly simplistic in a long and complicated chronology. And I respectfully understand those restrictions in Orthodox and traditional congregations that do not allow men and women in prayer or otherwise to sing or pray together. Based on scriptural passages which consider the voice of a woman to be distracting to men in prayer, similar ideas existed in Christian churches when women were also advised to remain silent. It is also well known that in Catholic churches, choirs were composed exclusively of men and/or boys. And in mainstream Rabbinic Judaism, the voice of women was censored for centuries. But by the twentieth century, Jewish women in the Reform and Conservative Movements had made inroads that no longer barred them from participation. The first woman cantor was ordained by the Reform Movement and 11 years later, the Conservative Movement followed suit. Several of the women on my list above were influential in enriching the synagogue Do you think you‛re funny? Do your friends laugh when you open your mouth? Do you tell jokes in the shower? Does your dog run away when you start telling a story? If so... We want YOU for the first annual Jewish Comedy Night at the Jewish Book Festival If selected... Prior to Jeremy Dauber’s* presentation, you and several other local Jewish community members will entertain our audience at the Hilton Naples (a crowd of 200-300 people is anticipated). So get your material together, rehearse those lines, and sign up for an audition to be held at the Federation office. The details of the event and auditions are still being worked out and will be finalized this summer. To be placed on an email list for more information, including audition dates, event date/time, guidelines and more, email Ted Epstein at fedstar18@gmail.com with “Jewish Comedy Night” in the subject line. Please include your full name and phone number. (Funny Jewish story or joke not required.) * If Jeremy Dauber is not able to attend next season’s Jewish Book Festival, another appropriate author will be invited for the Jewish Comedy Night event. For a continuously updated community calendar, visit www.jewishnaples.org. 21 repertoire. Debbie Friedman and Linda Hirschhorn are two names that everyone recognizes. Others are cantors and composers. And, of course, many will recognize names of talented Jewish women who have made their mark in secular music circles. Joshua Jacobson, renowned Professor of Music at Northeastern University and Founder and Artistic Director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, poses the following questions: “In a society in which music is considered to be a feminine pursuit, why are there so few published compositions by women?” “Why are women still excluded from the domain of some sacred music?” “Should the female cantor only sing the repertoire of her male counterpart or will a body of music emerge written specifically for soprano and alto voices?” According to Jacobson, these are questions we will grapple with in years to come. Interesting questions to ponder, yet we have evolved in more ways than anyone from yesteryear would have ever dreamed. Arlene Stolnitz, founder of the Sarasota Jewish Chorale, is a member of the Jewish Congregation of Venice. A retired educator from Rochester, New York, she has sung in choral groups for over 25 years and also sings in Venice’s Chorale (formerly Exsultate!). 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