{"id":1678,"date":"2007-12-10T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2007-12-10T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T03:02:40","slug":"yiddish-theater-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Yiddish Theater: A Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/thecalendargirls\/\">Danielle Berrin writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The story was their own.<\/p>\n<p>At the turn of the 21st century, a veteran actress struggles to keep Yiddish theater alive in New York. She desperately searches for money and a miracle to extend the run of a show scheduled to close on the last day of Chanukah. Years later, two impassioned filmmakers work outside the studio system with little financial backing to tell her story. 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