Books: War Is Hell, Also Absurd
Fiction Beaufort by Ron Leshem. Translated by Evan Fallenberg.. (Delacorte Press, 368 pp. $24) Once in a while, a book captures a nation’s zeitgeist. That’s
Brief Review: Grabbing the Brass Ring in America
Film Starting Out in the Evening Leonard Schiller wants his characters to do more in his final book, and so should this often slow-paced film.
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Au Naturel For a decade now, Israelis Anita and David Halpert have been manufacturing high-quality baby clothes for Shilav, Israel’s largest baby outfitter. But their
Last Look: A Star Is Reborn – Reclaiming and reinventing a Jewish legacy.
In its heyday, the eldridge Street Synagogue in New York’s Lower East Side echoed with the footsteps of thousands of worshipers, from the famous—scientist Jonas
Books: A Complicated Journey of Rescue
Perhaps no blow is as devastating to a parent as the death of a child. So when Lillian Leyb, the protagonist of Amy Bloom’s novel
Brief Review: Communities That Support and Protect
Film 99 Geiger Road In this short but sweet documentary, filmmaker Donna Schatz visits a bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains where a tight-knit group
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Lights, Camera, Action Robin Garbose has come far since directing theater in New York in the 1980s at Ensemble Studio Theater, the Juilliard School and