Maureen Kendler
Maureen Kendler is an adult educator in the Jewish community and a Teaching Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies. She advised the production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2017.
Tradition! Why we all love Fiddler on the Roof
Maureen Kendler examines the roots of the ever-popular musical
Shemini
"And the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture and the stork and the heron after its kinds and the hoopoe and the bat" Leviticus 11:18-19
Toldot
"And Rebecca heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son" Genesis 27:5
Chukkat
"And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 'Because you did not believe in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly in to the land which I have given them'" Numbers 20:12
Acharei Mot
"And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat " Leviticus 16:21
Devarim
Ki Tavo
"My father was a wandering Aramean" Deuteronomy 26:5
Va'etchanan
"Let me go over, I pray you, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly hill country, and Lebanon" Deuteronomy 3:25
Bemidbar
"Take a census of the entire Israelite community. Do it by families following the paternal line, according to the name of each male…every male over 20 years old, who is fit for service" Numbers 1:2-3
Ki Tissa
"And I said to them, whoever has any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it to me and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf" Exodus 32:24
Beshallach
"Out of the window she looked out and peered, the mother of Sisera through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming?'" Judges 5:28
Bereshit
"And Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him" Genesis 4:8
Hannah, the heroine of Rosh Hashanah
When life seems hard, the mother of the prophet Samuel shows us a way to get through
Debate prejudice in class, but not under exam conditions
Ki Tetzei
“And you see among the captives a woman of fair appearance, and you desire her and want her for a wife, then you shall bring her home to your house”
Chukkat
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