{"id":20850,"date":"2014-12-21T22:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=20850"},"modified":"2014-12-21T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:14:59","slug":"director-of-dcs-theater-j-fired-ostensibly-over-controversial-israel-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/director-of-dcs-theater-j-fired-ostensibly-over-controversial-israel-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of DC&#8217;s Theater J fired, ostensibly over controversial Israel plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) &#8212; Ari Roth, the longtime director at Theater J, is leaving the theater after a period of tension over plays dealing with Israel\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post and the Washington Jewish Week each reported late Thursday that Roth is saying the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, which oversees the theater, fired him after he refused to leave under terms that would have made it appear he left amicably and the decision was mutual.<\/p>\n<p>Roth and the theater drew controversy in recent years over plays dealing with Israel\u2019s founding that treated issues such as the allegations of massacres of Palestinians and their displacement.<\/p>\n<p>Roth told the Post that the specific reason of his firing was his refusal to adhere to a \u201ccommunications protocol\u201d over the JCC\u2019s recent decision to cancel an annual \u201cVoices from a Changing Middle East\u201d plays festival.<\/p>\n<p>Theater J in an email to JTA late Thursday depicted the parting as amicable.<br \/>\n\u201cAri Roth has had an incredible 18-year tenure leading Theater J, and we know there will be great opportunities ahead for him,\u201d the release quoted the JCC CEO, Carole Zawatsky, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Theater J under Roth earned critical acclaim and a national reputation for workshopping plays that went on to garner widespread attention.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, Roth plans to start a new theater company, Mosaic, that will launch next fall.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Director%20of%20DC%27s%20Theater%20J%20fired%2C%20ostensibly%20over%20controversial%20Israel%20plays\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3069,8790,8795,8788,6547,8839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20851,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions\/20851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}