Archives for February 2011

It is the season of Purim, which reminds us of the founding of Hadassah and our namesake, Esther, whose courageous effort, along with her uncle,

My son Jeremy and I have been hiking in the Judean Hills since the early hours and are taking a break on a shelf of

Dan Ben-Canaan slowly lifts the rumpled, yellowed sheet of paper and shows it to his audience. A professor of research and writing methodology at Heilongjiang

I hoped I was done with flimflam in 1952 when a Coney Island fortuneteller sent my Orthodox mother’s life savings up in smoke. But now

Come and Play, in Israel! Celebrate Purim this year with the lovable stars of the all-new Shalom Sesame. Be Happy, It’s Purim!, disc 6 in the series

Films The Human Resources Manager Central to this humorous Israeli film, based on A.B. Yehoshua’s novel A Woman in Jerusalem, is the transformation of the unnamed

  To the End of the Land by David Grossman. Translated by Jessica Cohen. (Knopf, 592 pp. $26.95) In the summer of 2006, in the

Brief Reviews: In Fiction, as in Life, Becoming a Mensch February 2011 Films The Human Resources Manager Central to this humorous Israeli film, based on