Sunday September 18, 2011
6:00PM - 9:00PM
JDL Protest against BDS Supporter Mandy Patinkin
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The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in Toronto, Canada, has announced its 2011-2012 season.
Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Mandy Patinkin will open the season with two performances of his hit show, Mamaloshen (Mother Tongue) (Bluma Appel Theatre, September 17 & 18), a night of Yiddish music ranging from well-known standards like "Raisins and Almonds" and "Oyfn Pripetshik," to rousing renditions of "Rabbi Elimeylekh" and "Der Alter Tzigayner," to the performer's own unique interpretations of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" and Paul Simon's "American Tune."
A few facts about Mandy Patinkin; Patinkin, who has made his living off of being Jewish and playing Jewish roles, threw in his Jewish credentials with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement to deligitimize the State of Israel when he joined "Hollywood, Broadway Stars Israeli Cultural Boycott" last September.
The boycott was condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The State of Israel is under an attack of delegitimization by elements in the international community. The last thing we need at this is to be under such an attack -- I mean this attempt at a boycott -- from within."
Patinkin, who must have recently acquired credentials in international law, proclaimed "The settlements are in direct violation of the Green Line and of international law...It is now the artists who are standing up and saying, we refuse to play in a new theater that you have built in an illegal settlement, and we are asking the world to pay attention."
Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Mandy Patinkin will open the season with two performances of his hit show, Mamaloshen (Mother Tongue) (Bluma Appel Theatre, September 17 & 18), a night of Yiddish music ranging from well-known standards like "Raisins and Almonds" and "Oyfn Pripetshik," to rousing renditions of "Rabbi Elimeylekh" and "Der Alter Tzigayner," to the performer's own unique interpretations of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" and Paul Simon's "American Tune."
A few facts about Mandy Patinkin; Patinkin, who has made his living off of being Jewish and playing Jewish roles, threw in his Jewish credentials with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement to deligitimize the State of Israel when he joined "Hollywood, Broadway Stars Israeli Cultural Boycott" last September.
The boycott was condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The State of Israel is under an attack of delegitimization by elements in the international community. The last thing we need at this is to be under such an attack -- I mean this attempt at a boycott -- from within."
Patinkin, who must have recently acquired credentials in international law, proclaimed "The settlements are in direct violation of the Green Line and of international law...It is now the artists who are standing up and saying, we refuse to play in a new theater that you have built in an illegal settlement, and we are asking the world to pay attention."
For More Information:
Location/Venue:
St. Lawrence Center for the Arts
Address:
27 Front Street East
City:
Toronto
Contact Name:
Jewish Defence League of Canada
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