Heart of
Wisdom:
Audio Explorations in Jewish Culture
(as heard on American Public Radio)
In 1991, ATJT began something new:
creating a series of audio programs for broadcast on
public radio, inspired by the themes from ATJT's plays. A
Traveling Jewish Theatre is delighted now to offer you
the first four programs in the series, produced with the
same skill, imagination and honesty that we've brought to
our theatre work for the past 16 years. Our work in this
new medium received an overwhelming listener response
when broadcast on American Public Radio...
"On the night of April 16, while driving along the
Garden State Parkway, I heard your excellent program, Stories Make the World on
a public radio station. I slowed the car down so as not
to pull out of range and miss a moment of your wonderful
presentation."
"[An Open Gate]
was monumentally inspirational."
"[Breaking the SIlence]
is an outstanding collage of women's voices."
"Thank you for putting together a program [Can You Hear Me?] that
helps many of us understand more fully just how
complicated and many-layered all prejudice can be."
Stories Make The World
In Stories, ATJT celebrates
the power of storytelling to define our humanity, to
connect us to a specific culture and to give meaning to
our lives. The program includes interviews with Barry
Lopez, Rabbi Zalman Schachter and Laura Simms, along with
traditional and contemporary stories performed by members
of A Traveling Jewish Theatre.
Listen to excerpts from this tape!
A
Story (.wav format, 641kb)
(click to download and play)
Reb
Zalmen on melody (.au format 826kb) (click
to download and play)
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An Open
Gate:
An Exploration of Jewish/Christian
Intermarriage
Personal stories of intermarried
couples are woven together with excerpts from ATJT's play
on intermarriage, Heart of the World, responses from the
Jewish and Christian communities and original music. The
program explores the potency of one's cultural and
religious past, the dilemmas-from circumcision to
Christmas-that arise when two people come from different
traditions, and the variety of ways interfaith families
reconcile their differences and find community.
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Breaking the
Silence: Jewish Feminists Tell
Their Stories
After thousands of years of silencing,
women all over the world are speaking up. This program
explores that process through the lives and stories of
seven feminist writers. E.M. Broner, Marcia Freedman,
Susan Griffin, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Deena Metzger,
Judith Plaskow and Savina Teubal trace their life
journeys and their struggles to find their voices. The
program contains music, documentary elements and excerpts
from ATJT's plays: Snake Talk: Urgent Messages from the
Mother, and Berlin, Jerusalem and the Moon.
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Can You Hear
Me? African Americans and Jews in
Conflict and Coalition
The program traces the history of
coalition between African Americans and Jews that
flowered in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, it
explores the roots of current tensions between the two
groups and it identifies positive developments toward
renewed understanding and cooperation. Can You Hear Me?
includes incisive interviews with African-American and
Jewish scholars Cornel West, Michael Lerner, Julius
Lester, Clayborne Carson, Barbara Christian and Melanie
Kaye/Kantrowitz, excerpts from ATJT's acclaimed dramatic
collaboration with John O'Neal, entitled Crossing the
Broken Bridge, original music, archival material and
personal testimony.
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Stories Make the World An Open Gate
Breaking the
Silence
Can You Hear
Me?
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