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The Foundation for Jewish Culture congratulates the 2007-2008 recipients of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies. For over forty years, more than 600 rising scholars have been recognized with this prestigious award, and have emerged as some of the most prominent figures in their field.On Monday, December 17, this year’s Fellows will be honored at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Toronto, at a reception hosted by board member George M. Zeltzer, one of the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s founders.

Joshua Burns, Yale University, Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship
Margaret Cohen, Penn State, The Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver Memorial Fellowship
Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, University of Toronto, The Joy Gottesman Ungerleider - Dorot Foundation Fellowship
David Horowitz, Columbia University, The Joan and Richard Scheuer Fellowship
Ethan Katz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Beverly and Arnold C. Greenberg Fellowship
Federica Kaufmann-Clementi, CUNY Graduate Center, The Joy Gottesman Ungerleider - Dorot Foundation Fellowship
Anne Albert Oravetz, University of Pennsylvania, The Joy Gottesman Ungerleider - Dorot Foundation Fellowship
Ester-Batya Vaisman, Harvard University, The Kogan Foundation Fellowship

In 2008, The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies will publish Ethan Katz’s “Displaced Historians, Dialectical Histories: George L. Mosse, Peter Gay, and Germany’s Multiple Paths in the Twentieth Century”.

Applications for 2008-2009 Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies are now available online.

Now through Nov. 30, 2007, Lilith Magazine is accepting submissions for an annual poetry prize founded by Foundation for Jewish Culture board member Charlotte Newberger. Interested writers should submit no more than three poems, in hard copy and with complete contact information, to: Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize Competition LILITH MAGAZINE 250 West 57th Street, Suite 2432 New York, NY 10107. Please contact the magazine at info@lilith.org with any questions.

Six Points Fellowship Feature

Alina Bliumis

Six Points* Fellow Alina Bliumis, whose work has been exhibited worldwide, has just published, with her husband Jeff, Receiving the Stranger. The book collects many of their remarkable site-specific projects and is available for purchase at bliumis.com/book.htm. Born in Minsk, Belorussia, Alina now lives and works in New York, and is settling into her Franklin Street studio. Her work often reflects on her own experiences and develops subjects dealing with migration, social developments and cultural engineering.

*The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists is a partnership of Avoda Arts, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and JDub Records, and is made possible with major funding from UJA-Federation of New York.

Grantee News

Performances by David Griffin
Oct. 18-20
Various NYC locations
For times and venues, see: http://www.sixpointsfellowship.org/fellows/David/

Enjoy Six Points Fellow David Griffin’s innovative blend of Jewish music, 1960’s pop, indie rock and experimental music as he performs with Nous Non Plus at the CMJ Showcase, the After the Jump Party, and at Indaba Music Loft.

Abe Rybeck

Hello Goodbye Peace, by Abe Rybeck
Oct. 20 @ 4pm, Oct. 21 @ 3pm, suggested $10 donation
Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Hall A in the Calderwood Pavilion
www.thetheateroffensive.org.

Abe Rybeck received a New Jewish Theater Projects grant in 2007 for Hello Goodbye Peace, the story of a Jewish grandfather and his family, building a dream-come-true on a jerusalem artichoke farm in the mountains of West Virginia. The readings are part of Theater Offensive’s Plays at Work, which develops and premieres theatrical work by regional queer artists through staged reading and workshop formats.

Photo by Rick Nahmias

Four Seasons Lodge, a work-in-progress screening
Oct. 28, 2pm; free, reservation required
Forest Hills Jewish Center, Ballroom, Forest Hills, NY
RSVP: Hanna Feffer at 212-249-1888 or Lorraine Kaufman at 212-595-2155

Four Seasons Lodge, an uplifting, insightful portrait of those who have chosen to embrace their dark pasts with striking openness and, at times, black humor, received a grant from the Kroll Film Fund earlier this year. A discussion with the director and producer, Andrew Jacobs and Matt Lavine, will follow the screening.

Jews, Arts, & Activism: Conference and Party
Oct. 28, conf. @ 2pm, evening program @ 6:30pm
$30 for WC/AR members, $36 for non-members ($18 workshops or evening only)
45 East 33rd Street (6 train to 33rd St.), NY, NY
For more information, or to register please contact Dana Schneider at (212) 889-6800 ext 271 or dschneider@circle.org.

New Jewish Theater Projects grantee Jenny Romaine (The Lives of the Badkhonim, 2003) is one of several cutting-edge artists participating in this conference on the intersection of Jewish identity, art, and commitments of conscience. Presented by Jewish Currents magazine and The Workmen’s Circle / Arbeter Ring.

Repairing the World: Contemporary Ritual Objects
Opens Oct. 30, 6:30pm, continuing through March 3, 2008, free with Museum admission
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, www.jewishmuseum.org

This group show features a fascinating piece from Hèlene Aylon, awarded a visual arts prize from the Foundation for Jewish Culture in 2002. Titled “Apple Plate”, Aylon’s ceramic plate explores the apple that tempted Eve, and the punishment that ensued. Aylon’s exhibit My Body/My Self: Under the canopy; On top of the land; Out of the texts is running through Nov. 4 at the Gershman Y galleries in Philadelphia: www.phillyjcc.com/gershman.

Praying with Lior
Nov. 4 @ 1pm and Nov. 8 @ 7pm, Boston Jewish Film Festival
Nov. 11, Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York
More information at www.prayingwithlior.com.

In 2006, Ilana Trachtman received a grant from the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking for Praying with Lior, which premiered this fall at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival to a standing ovation and has been hailed by Variety as a “fascinating documentary.” Additional screenings are at Jewish film festivals all over the country, including DC, NYC, Atlanta, Seattle, Hartford, Denver, and New Jersey.

United Jewish Communities General Assembly
Nov. 11-13
Nashville, TN
http://www.ujc.org/section.html?id=42

On Monday, Nov. 12, Six Points panelists, creators, and fellows will present a program at the UJC’s General Assembly, exploring the arts as an entrance to Jewish Life. Join Rebecca Guber, Aaron Bisman, Elise Bernhardt, Deb Krivoy, Alisa Doctoroff, and Six Points Fellows Alina Bliumis, Avishai Mekonen, and Clare Burson, for what promises to be an engaging discussion.

A Marsh Rising evening: Rabbi Sam, a work-in-progress performance
Nov. 14, 7:30pm
The Marsh, San Francisco
http://themarsh.org/rising.html

Charlie Varon received a New Jewish Theater Projects grant in 2007 for Rabbi Sam, about a young, charismatic rabbi who promises to double membership, compost the synagogue’s food scraps, and take the entire congregation to Jerusalem. Oh, and save American Judaism. Charlie plays a dozen characters, including the rabbi and eight contentious board members.

We congratulate 2005 Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking grantee Ronit Avni (Encounter Point), whose organization Just Vision was one of eight recognized with a grant from the Slingshot Fund. For more information about Just Vision, please visit: www.justvision.org.

Cultural Events of Jewish Interest

November is National Jewish Book Month! Is there a Jewish book festival near you? http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/page.php?43

Kids With Cameras: Beyond the Walls–The Jerusalem Project
Now through Nov. 18
The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St., NY, NY
http://jccmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1544

Kids with Cameras, the organization behind Born into Brothels, has turned its sights on Jerusalem; Jewish and Palestinian children were given cameras and photography lessons and sent out to photograph Jerusalem’s Old City though their own perspectives.

NIForum: Towards a Progressive Vision for Israel
Oct. 17-28
Various times & locations. Visit www.nif.org/niforum for details.

The New Israel Fund has organized a week-long series of events around North America, challenging Israelis and Diaspora Jews to imagine a more just, equitable and pluralistic state.

Modernity and Tradition: Film in Interwar Central Europe
Oct. 12, 19, and 26 at 2, 4, and 6:30 PM, $10/$7 members & students
Guggenheim Museum, Sackler Center for Arts Education
www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml

A program of short and feature-length experimental, documentary, and narrative films from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.

Photo by Joan Roth

Project Kesher: Women and Jewish Renaissance in Ukraine, Photographs by Joan Roth
now through Jan. 27, 2008
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, NY, NY
www.huc.edu/museums/ny/exhibits/07/kesher

Project Kesher, a program designed to help Jewish women of the Former Soviet Union recover their Jewish heritage and promote community activism, is evoked through the works of photographer Joan Roth. This work has been made possible through the generosity of the Reba Judith Sandler Foundation.

The Oy!hoo Shmooze
Oct. 22-23
UJA Federation of New York, 130 East 59th Street

New perspectives emerge as professionals and students from the Jewish culture, art and media worlds engage in dialogue about current musical and artistic developments within and outside the Jewish community. Interested? It’s not too late to register: oyhoo.com/events/schmooze-07

We Can Rise: Chana Rothman CD Release Party and Zeek New Jewish Music Launch
Oct. 24, 7pm
Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston Street, NY, NY
www.zeek.net/events

Canadian-raised Brooklynite Chana Rothman takes you on a roots-driven lyrical journey of spoken word, acoustic reggae and pop. With special guests. Presented by Oyhoo Records, 14th Street Y, Jewschool.com, and Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.

Dan Wolf Stateless & Hyim

A Double Bill: Hyim & Dan Wolf’s Stateless (NY Premiere)
Oct. 24, 8 pm, $20
Manhattan JCC, 334 Amsterdam Ave (at 76th St)
Part of the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival: http://www.oyhoo.com

With songs of courage and love, treasures and pirates, impounded dogs, and odes to change and peace, urban world beat singer/songwriter Hyim’s music and spirit know no bounds. Dan Wolf teams up with fellow hip-hop artist Tommy Shepherd for a theatrical collaboration exploring the problems of racism within the Jewish American and African American experience.

Shemspeed Launch Party
Oct. 25, 8pm, $15
Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, NY, NY
www.zeek.net/events

Join Zeek magazine, DJ Handler, and a host of musical guests for the launch of the new, comprehensive music website Shemspeed.

Ravayah
Oct. 27, 8pm, $10
Centerpoint Yoga Studios, 324 Lafayette St., NY, NY
www.zeek.net/events

Come celebrate both the release of Zeek’s fall issue and the publication of Zeek chief editor Jay Michaelson’s new book, Another Word for Sky: Poems. Featuring Jay’s ecstatic poetry performance with drums and music, performances by Avi Fox Rosen and more, and a dance party into the wee hours.

Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Oct. 29, 7pm, $10 requested donation
Lower East Side Tenement Museum Visitors Center and Museum Shop, 108 Orchard Street (below Delancey), NY, NY
RSVP to: bookclub@tenement.org; more information at www.crossingtheblvd.org

Judith Sloan in performance of monologues, images, and sounds portraying the struggles, humor, and pathos of new immigrants and refugees in Queens, NY, the most polyglot place on the planet, based on Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan’s critically acclaimed book, Crossing the BLVD (W.W. Norton).

Ehud Havazelet and Joshua Henkin
Nov. 1, 7:30pm; $8/$6 students, under 25
Conor Byrne’s Pub, Seattle, Washington
www.nextbook.org

Two outstanding contemporary Jewish authors read from their most recent books, Bearing the Body and Matrimony, accompanied by Seattle Weekly editor, Mark D. Fefer.

Riverdale Jewish Festival of the Arts: a Celebration of Jewish Multi-Culturalism
Nov. 10-18
The Riverdale Y, Riverdale, NY

For more information about the exciting events and performers, visit www.riverdaley.org.

Meir Shalev
Nov.12, 7:30pm; $8/$6 students, under 25
Washington DCJCC
www.nextbook.org

Meir Shalev is one of Israel’s leading writers, and most recently the author of A Pigeon and A Boy.

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