Last month, members of the Vanity Theater Company gave two staged readings of the Yiddish play “After the Desert God” by Kadya Molodowsky in a new English translation by Joel Berkowitz, director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Shown here, from left, are company members Kristina Van Slyke, Tiffany Vanlandingham, Kelliann Kary, and Stacie Williams at the reading on May 6 at the UWM Music Building. Photo by Jeffrey John Loomis.