This past Hanukkah I witnessed a kind of miracle in modern times: Toho Stage's Fiddler on the Roof, performed in Japanese by an all-Asian company. The quintessential Jewish musical set in Imperial Russia in 1905 and based on "Tevye and his Daughters and other tales" by Sholem Aleichem is about a poor dairyman's attempts to maintain his cultural and religious traditions in a changing world.
