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Rabbi Meets The Kupuna
Thursday (June 23), 7pm, ProArts Playhouse, Kihei; $25
by Anuhea Yagi
June 23, 2011
During his Male Shining Star Award acceptance speech at the Maui Film Festival last Saturday, actor Andrew Garfield (Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network) used the word "Jewaiian" when thanking Ben Goodman for his expert organizational work. It got a bit of a laugh, so I tweeted it. Boss bassist Shawn Michael (@shawnmichael808) replied—ever the insta-Wikipedia of Maui music—saying "Jewaiian" was also a "term of endearment (for) guitarist Avi Ronen, uttered by Willie K at Barry Fest 2009." Well, that's the headline's back story so sensitive folk can't berate me for it... But I digress. The point is, I'm here to tell you about "The Rabbi Meets the Kupuna," the third annual dialogue exploring coincidental kinship between Kabbalah and Kahuna. (Makes sense. After all, The Torah says, "And the Almighty formed the man of dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the soul of life," which, to me, seems reminiscent of bridge-bone-bonding Hawaiian honi.) Rabbi Yizchak Schwartz is traveling all the way from Jerusalem to join a panel alongside local ladies Auntie Maile Shaw and Auntie Pua Mahoe. The very idea of this program tickles my fancy unlike any other; but add to the event a dessert buffet and comfortable theater-in-the-round seating, and I'm in Heaven (or wherever). The program concludes with a Q&A session, and I'll be the one asking how to go about making a menehune golem. 268-6112; sourceofhealing@gmail.com
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