Ben Platts long-awaited return to Broadway got off to a troubling start this week as incoming theatergoers were accosted by members of a far-right, neo-Nazi hate group. A video posted to Twitter by journalist Jake Wasserman of the Forward shows a masked man representing the National Socialist Movement distributing antisemitic flyers outside of the Bernard B
Franks trial unleashed a wave of antisemitic rage.
For the last five months, Ive been stepping into the shoes of a Jewish woman whose husband was lynched for a murder he did not commit. Parade, a musical written and performed on Broadway in the late 1990s, tells the devastating and true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish New Yorker who lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1900s.
Musical theater can be a magical thing for a child. The first time they see Wickeds Elphaba rise to the top of the theater, or the chandelier come crashing down in Phantom, can be a memory theyll never forget
Lucy Lipiner is no stranger to antisemitism. A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, she was forced to live through one of the worst atrocities to ever take place in human history. Yet her lived experience still hasnt prevented the torrent of antisemitic abuse that she, and all Jewish people, currently are experiencing on social media in particular on Elon Musks X (formerly known as Twitter)
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122 years ago Aug. 30, 1901 The following, clipped from the Eagle Quill, was very courteously credited to the Enterprise.
Local history 50 years ago Aug. 17, 1973 The Blair County Law Enforcement Association met at the Family Host Cafeteria to discuss crime by motorcycle gangs or clubs, with Altoona Police Chief Jack Kuhn as chief speaker. The association comprised police from the state, Altoona, Logan Township, Williamsburg, Roaring Spring, Martinsburg, parole and probation officers and prison wardens.