The Ultimate Passover Kitchen How much easier would life be if you could hide away a kosher-for-Passover kitchen until you needed it? No worries that hametz had

FILMS In Darkness The emotions and setting of this Polish film are dark indeed, as it re-creates the experiences of a dozen Jewish men, women

Fiction Foreign Bodies: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 255 pp. $26) Until now, many avid readers of Cynthia Ozick’s fiction have settled

DVD 18 Voices Sing Kol Nidre: The Secrets of a Sacred Chant From Those Who Have Been Touched by It Why does this short, controversial

Major News  Orna Barbivay is Israel’s first female major-general and the new head of the Israel Defense Force’s Manpower Branch. Previously she served as the

Films The Names of Love On the surface a romantic comedy about Arab-Jewish relations, French sociopolitics and the Holocaust, this charming film has characters chatting

The Free World: A Novel by David Bezmozgis. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 356 pp. $26) In 1980, when David Bezmozgis was 7, he and his family

Bar Mitzva for Life While the creativity and pizzazz of the b’nei mitzot featured in “Today I Am a Director” (June/July issue) are to be appreciated, it