Dream catchers have long been a part of Native American religion, lore, and art, originating with the Ojibwe, or Chippewa, and the Lakota, a confederation of seven Sioux tribes. Dream catchers are webbed and beaded circles hung with feathers from the base of the circle. As one might suspect, the purpose of a dream catcher is to catch dreams—that is, to trap bad or evil dreams and channel good dreams to the sleeper. Read More...
Lasry was born in Marrakech to a family of Moroccan Jews. When he was seven years old, he and his family immigrated to the U.S. His Father, Moise, was a computer programmer and his mother, Elise, was a schoolteacher. Lasry grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut and received a B.A. in history from Clark University in 1981 and a J.D. from New York Law School in 1984. While in law school, he worked as a clerk for the Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of New York, Edward Ryan. Read More...
Speaker When did you first hear it, when you first contacted about Jamaica in 1957, I was contacted my agent actually somebody approached my agent to know that I was available and they asked me to go to New York and and do an audition for a new play called Jamaica, written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. Something intriguing to me starring Lena Horne is wonderful. So I went to New York and I auditioned before I auditioned. Read More...