15: Love, Revisited

Israel Story

Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

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🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Three couples look back at their time together—on a kibbutz, in verse, and in a hospital.

The stories in today’s episode come from our most recent live show, “Israel in Love.” We’ll meet three couples looking back at their love affairs from very different vantage points.

Zvi and Regina Steinitz’s romance has been going on the longest—in fact, it’s been going on since the very birth of the state of Israel. Danna Harman shares their story in Act I, “Like A Stone.”

Act II, “There’s a Wall Between Us,” began as a radio piece called “Checkpoints and Secrets,” by Daniel Estrin, which aired in last year’s Valentine’s Day special. Daniel’s piece followed the winding love affair of two men, an Israeli Jew from Jerusalem and a Palestinian Muslim from the West Bank, as it unfolded over a long time. We then gave Daniel’s original recordings, so the actual words the two men had told him, over to composer Or Matias — the Musical Director of the electro-pop opera “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812,” which will go up on Broadway this coming fall. Or, in turn, adapted the piece into a mini-musical, with entirely original music, performed here by Alaa Daka and Eyal Sherf, with Mike Cohen on flute, Dillon Condor on guitar and mandolin, and Dan Weiner on percussion.

Our final story, “When Time Will Fold Over,” takes place in a tiny village, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, called Mevo Modi’im. The 254 people who live there look like a cross between the Lubavitch Rebbe and Jerry Garcia. This is the story of two of them, Michael and Leah Golomb, and their 37-year marriage. It is an updated version of a piece that we aired exactly a year ago, and is produced by Benny Becker and Yochai Maital, with original music by Collin Oldham.

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1:34.0	Today, fashionably a few days late, we're joining the omnipresent V-Day Love Fest with an episode called Love Revisited.
1:50.0	Yeah, yeah, we know you're probably sick of roses and cheesy Hallmark cards, but stick with us. You won't
1:58.2	want to miss out on this one, no matter how love saturated you are. The stories on today's episode are all part of
2:06.4	our live show Israel and love. We're actually in the midst of our East Coast
2:10.3	tour as we're recording this episode.
2:13.0	So in case you couldn't make our shows in New York and Miami,
2:17.0	today on Israel's story, we have the stories of three couples looking back
2:21.1	at their love affairs, from three very different vantage points.
2:27.0	Of all the love tales we'll hear today, Sveen Regina Steinitz's has been going on the longest.
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