"Liz Lerman wants to throw out the tired Jewish cliche of the dancing rabbi. You know, those ubiquitous paintings, sculptures or sketches of black-hatted, bearded Chasidim dancing like Tevye in a long-ago, far-away shtetl. They hang in too many Jewish homes and synagogues.
It's time to bring dance and Judaism together into the 21st century, Lerman insists."
I spoke with Lerman and Rabbi David Dunn Bauer of Amherst, Mass., about this first-of-its-kind collaboration. My story appears in this week's Washington Jewish Week.
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