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OnStageIsrael: A Festival of Staged Readings of Cutting Edge Plays

August 16-24, 2008 at at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Theatre Or, the North Carolina non-profit theater company that brought their American premiere production of Israeli playwright Motti Lerner's Hard Love to Victory Gardens Theater two summers ago, will present OnStageIsrael: A Festival of Staged Readings of Cutting Edge Plays at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater August 16-24, 2008. Professional directors will stage five plays about Israel by Israeli and American playwrights: Women's Minyan by Naomi Ragen, the recent off-Broadway hit Masked by Ilan Hatsor; Apples from the Desert by Savyon Liebrecht; Conviction by Oren Neeman, starring Ami Dayan; and To Pay the Price by Peter-Adrian Cohen. Professional actors will read each play two or three times in repertory during the nine-day festival. Discussions with facilitators will follow most readings.

To purchase tickets for OnStageIsrael, call the Victory Gardens Box Office at 773-871-3000 or visit their website. Prices are $10 per reading, $32 for a five show festival pass, and $8 for groups of 15 or more. For more information about the festival, check out their press release online.

Support Immigrant Families in Postville

In May, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest single-site workplace raid in U.S. history at AgriProcessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, located in Postville, IA. Three hundred employees remain in federal custody. Following the raid, the families of these immigrant workers - which include 500 children - live with fear, uncertainty and no source of income. The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA) has launched a relief campaign to help provide food, housing and legal assistance for these families. Contributions can be made through the JCUA website or may be mailed to JCUA at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Suite #500, Chicago, IL 60605. View more information about the AgriProcessors situation is available online.

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Take part in an Online Study of Prayer, Marriage and Family

Would you consider being part of an online, confidential study? Because research on prayer in marriage and family life is hard to find, Dr. Paul Giblin, Associate Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Loyola University Chicago is conducting a study on this topic. Please Dr. Giblin at 312-915-7483 or by email if you are willing to participate and/or have questions.