JCCSF programs hit the radio airwaves
Did you miss novelist Jonathan Keats’ lecture last month at the JCC of San Francisco? Or the “Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave” panel? With events at the JCCSF every week, you’re bound to miss someone.
This is where “Binah: Creative Voices from the JCCSF” comes in. The weekly radio program, at 8 p.m. every Monday on KALW-91.7 FM, airs lectures, panel discussions and other events held at the JCC.
Next up will be a Monday, March 23, broadcast of Edward Albee’s recent lecture, followed by reporter and author Azadeh Moaveni discussing “Inside Iran” on the March 30 show. For the full listing of broadcasts, visit www.jccsf.org.
‘Waltz With Bashir’ takes French award
“Waltz With Bashir” became the first Israeli film to win the Cesar, a top French film award.
As he accepted the Best Foreign Film award Feb. 27 at the French version of the Oscars, director Ari Folman said, “The only message of the film is to be tolerant, to believe in the other, to believe in love and in peace.”
Folman’s victory was considered a surprise, French reports said, in a competition that included Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” and Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorra.”
“Waltz With Bashir” won the Golden Globe in January but lost out in becoming Israel’s first Academy Award winner for best foreign film. — jta
New play about Petaluma’s chicken ranchers
“Basha Rubenchek from Minsk, Comrade of Petaluma,” a play by Mae Ziglin Meidav, is coming to the Berkeley City Club.
Based on true events, the play tells the story of a chicken ranch in Petaluma run by Jewish socialists during the “Red scare days” after World War I. Presented by Brookside Repertory Theatre, the play opens 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at the Berkeley City Club.
“Basha Rubenchek” received a California Living History Center Award after its 2004 debut. Meidav, of Berkeley, received a California Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship Award for her two-act play “Delicate Pin Stripes,” and has written several plays, including “Chanukah Is Not the Jewish Christmas.”
“Basha Rubenchek” runs Thursdays through Sundays through May 3. The Berkeley City Club is located at 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. For tickets or information, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.brooksiderep.org.