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Boulder playwright Ami Dayan

Boulder playwright Ami Dayan

The journey from Israel to Boulder, kibbutz to family garden, secular to spiritual Jew has been more of a process than a direct route for playwright Ami Dayan.?

“I was brought up on a secular kibbutz in Israel and went to the military,” he says about his origins. “From there, I found my way to a beautiful place next to Tel Aviv and was inspired to go on a trip to South America.”

Still, after the army, with no real career goal in mind, Dayan says he floundered a bit and became easily bored. That boredom motivated him to sign up for a weekly evening theater class. “I was hooked right away.”

Speaking from his backyard, Dayan recounts his migration from a cotton kibbutz in Israel to his lush vegetable garden in Boulder via Europe and New York.

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Star will coach Team USA at Maccabiah

Star will coach Team USA at Maccabiah

NEW YORK — It’s not unheard of to find Bruce Pearl, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, somewhere in public screaming with his shirt off — be it as a spectator rooting on the women’s basketball team with his portly belly painted orange and sporting a giant V for Volunteers, or onstage rapping at a school awards ceremony.

Last week, though, at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, the gut stayed covered as he donned a tux to emcee a fundraising gala for Maccabi USA.

Pearl will be among the 9,000 participants from more than 54 countries in the Maccabiah Games in Israel, July 12-23, when he serves as the head coach of the US men’s basketball team.

Organizers of the Olympics-style competition for Jewish athletes, which has been held every four years in Palestine and then Israel since 1932, say it is the third largest athletic gathering of any kind.

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Mystical nature of light; dynamics of reincarnation

Mystical nature of light; dynamics of reincarnation

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, once a familiar face in Denver where he helped set up the local chapter of the National Council of Synagogue Youth, is a man of many fascinations.

In recent years, the rabbi — who today runs Israel’s Ohr Chadash program — has grown increasingly visible as a writer, speaker and teacher.

In all of these pursuits, he shares his knowledge of, and considerable enthusiasm for, the mystical dimensions of Judaism. He has already penned such books on Jewish music and dreams, and this year has released two more volumes, both published by Devora.

As in his earlier works, Rabbi Trugman’s approach is grounded in Orthodox Judaism, but he takes an open-minded and alternative perspective to many of his subjects which lends them an almost New Age flavor. His considerable knowledge of Kabbalah and related fields of Jewish mysticism no doubt plays a large role in why his work lends itself to a wider audience than one might expect.

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Book reviews: the history of El Al and marketing strategy secrets

Book reviews: the history of El Al and marketing strategy secrets

El Al: Israel’s Flying Star (Airways International, 2008), written by Marvin Goldman and featuring historical photos, chronicles 60 years of a once fledgling airline that evolved into a major player in the aviation industry.

Goldman, a civil airline historian and expert, is the world’s largest collector of El Al memorabilia.

Perhaps no other airline is so deeply rooted in the history, struggles and spirit of a nation as El Al.

In the 1920s, Britain’s Imperial Airways, the first airline to operate in the Holy Land, dominated the skies.

New immigrants to the country, including Yisrael Shochet and Tzvi Nadav, tried to establish modest air service within Palestine but were refused by the British.

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The Stones in concert: Son, grandson of late Rabbi Stone

The Stones in concert: Son, grandson of late Rabbi Stone

The Stones in Concert, presented by the Brotherhood of Temple Emanuel, will benefit the Rabbi Earl S. Stone Scholarship Fund, Saturday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. at Temple Emanuel.

Featuring the late Rabbi Stone’s son, pianist Dr. Jeremy Stone, and grandson, pianist Seth Stone, concertgoers will hear a non-cantorial  performance by Cantor Regina Heit.

Jeremy Stone will present  an interactive piano performance, “Music and Moods,” in which the audience will be asked after each piece to select the emotion(s) that each person feels the music conveys.

The performance includes music by a variety of composers, including Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Gottschalk, and will also feature “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin.

Seth Stone will play a classical selections and then be joined by his father, Jeremy, for additional pieces.

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