“Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother.”
Perfect Mother’s Day Gift in Documentary Planning Stage
“Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother,” by Marnie Winston-Macauley,
is an acclaimed, eye-popping view of this often maligned stereotype.
Macauley has created a small masterpiece which will evoke learning, laughter,
and tears in the reader.
“Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother” is a true page-turner
that takes on:
*Is there such a thing as a “Jewish Mother?” *Why The Jewish Mama, turned
from revered to ridiculed. *Unusual facts about Jewish Mothers who broke
the mold.
You’ll howl over the Jewish mother who ran for President -her slogan?
“Things’ll get bettah with Yetta.” You’ll be riveted by the pioneer Jewish
mother who shlepped by stagecoach from Arizona to California to make
sure her son was circumcised in eight days. You’ll be amazed to find
out why pirate Jean Lafitte attacked Spanish ships. You’ll laugh reading
personal celebrity anecdotes ... from Judy Gold, Mallory Lewis, daughter
of Shari Lewis (“You’re never too dead to be a Jewish mother”), to Jackie
Mason. And your heart will fill hearing first-hand accounts from legends
such as Dr. Ruth Gruber and Caroline Goodman.
This book resonates for anyone who is, has, or has had a mother.
“The be all and end all about the real Jewish leaders...Jewish Mothers.
Researchers in the future will refer to this book as the definitive source
on Jewish Mothers.”- Eileen Waarshaw, Ph.D. Executive Director of The
Jewish Heritage Center of the Southwest
NOW THE BOOK IS IN THE PLANNING STAGE FOR A DOCUMENTARY – THE FIRST OF
ITS KIND TO TAKE AN IN-DEPTH, TRUTHFUL LOOK AT THIS MISUNDERSTOOD FIGURE:
THE JEWISH MOTHER.
*FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK OR DOCUMENTARY, contact: Marnie
Winston-Macauley directly: E-mail: jewishmotherfund@aol.com.
*“Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother,” may be purchased
at your bookstore, on , and other fine online stores in time
for Mother’s Day. Marnie’s desk calendar, A Little Oy, A Little Joy 2009,
can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
Mar 21 - Film and Discussion - Yidddish Theater: A
Love Story (In English)
YIDDDISH THEATER: A LOVE STORY (IN ENGLISH) STARTING FRIDAY MARCH 21: EVERY DAY at 5:15 pm for One
Week
SAT. & SUN. at 12:00 pm(noon) & 5:15 pm
Followed by Q&A with
DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Laemmle's Music Hall 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 90211, Tel: 310-274-6869
Or call: Ms. Ravit Markus: 323-929-3261 email: ravit@newlovefilms.com
Help needed for Ethiopian
Community Service Center
Dear Friends,
Last week, fires in the DC Mount Pleasant neighborhood destroyed the
Ethiopian Community Service Center, an outreach program that provides
computer and language classes, counseling and youth programs. The Center
was housed in the west wing of the Meridian Hill Baptist Church that
was completely burned down. The Jewish Information and Referral Service
has had the pleasure working with the Ethiopian Community Service Center
and helped them get started over 6 years ago. We are committed to helping
them again.
Financial assistance - to help purchase and assist their clients.
This is a wonderful organization that has helped many, many, people.
Please give the Executive Director, Daniel Belayneh a call at 202-497-2657
or email him at ecsdc@verizon.net.
He will arrange for pick up of anything you can donate and will be able
to give you a tax receipt.
Theodore Bikel with Tamara Brooks
Inspires at Private Fundraiser
March 16, 2008 – Brentwood, CA. Sunday, at a private concert for Friends
of Jewish Renewal in Poland,
Theodore Bikel, accompanied by Tamara Brooks, lent his voice to the cause
of rebuilding the Jewish
community in Poland. Bikel and Brooks captivated the audience with their
music.
Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland (FJRP), a LosAngeles based non-profit,
celebrated five years of
achievement supporting Polish-Jewish organizations. Through grants and
strategic partnerships, FJRP works
with organizations such as BeitWarszawa, the Polish Union of Jewish Students
and other emerging Jewish
communities in Poland.
Inspiration for the poignant and hopeful musical soiree was Bikel’s
personal trip to Poland six years
ago, and the subsequent relationships he established with members of
the Jewish community there.
Bikel recalls of his trip “What I found there was at once both very sad
and very inspirational. Sad,
because of the realization that visiting Jews, especiallyAmerican Jews,
looked upon Poland as nothing more
than a graveyard.” They neglected to see that there were individuals
and moments that are cause for great hope.
Bikel met with those individuals and experienced the phenomenon of
young men and women who were
re-discovering their Jewish roots by making contact with the Progressive
Jewish movement in Poland.
Bikel and Brooks have visited Jewish communities in Poland almost every
year since then. They go to
perform, to explore, and to spend time with the community they have grown
close to. They have performed at
the Jewish Festival in Krakow, in concerts under the auspices of BeitWarszawa,
and Bikel has conducted
religious services to a packed hall in Lublin. The services in Lublin,
sponsored by Friends of Jewish Renewal
in Poland and organized by BeitWarszawa, took place in what was one of
the largest Yeshivas in Poland
before its closure duringWorldWar II. This was the first time since the
war that a Jewish word was heard
within those walls.
At the time of Bikel’s first visit to Poland, with no clergy to speak
of and no Jewish books to stimulate
a cultural revival, the creation of a liberal, progressive Jewish community
was no more than a vision in the
mind of SeverynAshkenazy, a Holocaust survivor. Because of Severyn’s
untiring efforts, BeitWarszawa was
born. Ashkenazy, a LosAngeles businessman, has made Poland his second
home. AsAshkenazy tells his
friends in the United States, “I can stand on a street corner in most
cities in Poland, throw a stone in any
direction and hit someone with Jewish roots.”
So thanks to hard work, financial support and great hope, BeitWarszawa,
Poland’s first post-war
Reform congregation, flourishes and grows. It is this community that
regularly continues to play host to Bikel.
And it is because of their devotion to Jewish Renewal in Poland that
Theodore Bikel and Tamara Brooks have
lent their talents to Sunday’s benefit concert.
For more information about the Theodore Bikel fundraiser and Friends
of Jewish Renewal in Poland,
please contact Kelly Menachemson at 213-388-8628
or jewishrenewalpoland@gmail.com
