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Tovah Feldshuh shares marriage advice — as she prepares for a play about divorce

JL;DR SUMMARY Tovah Feldshuh returns to the off-Broadway stage in Joy Behar's play, "My First Ex-Husband," performing as Rebecca, a Hasidic bride-to-be struggling with the constraints of her arranged marriage. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityMarriageRelationshipsHasidic CommunityTheaterBroadwayTovah FeldshuhWomen's RolesMy First Ex HusbandJoy Behar

Places mentioned

Williamsburg, New York, United States
"Rebecca yearns for a relationship outside the norms of her strict Haredi upbringing in Williamsburg, where marriage for women means, You hardly ever see each other, but you have to be there for procreation and to raise the babies."
Scarsdale, New York, United States
"She grew up in a more secular Jewish community in Scarsdale."
New York City, New York, United States
"SAMUEL ELI SHEPHERD: From Rosie Brice in Funny Girl to Golda Meir in Goldas Balcony, youve played a lot of Jews in New York City theater."
Borough Park, New York, United States
"It was at the ONeill Theater on Broadway. I was snuck into a boys yeshiva in Borough Park by the great [Orthodox rabbi] Aryeh Kaplan."
Israel
"At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse."

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