Barrett Foa, who is part of the ensemble of the hit musical Avenue Q, will take part in the "Food for Thought" reading series Feb. 25.
1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz is born in the Ukraine. Under the pen name Sholom Aleichim (1859-1916) he will write many stories in Yiddish, several of which will be adapted as plays, most notably Fiddler on the Roof.