Between Friends By Amos Oz. Translated by Sondra Silverston. (Mariner Books, 179 pp. $14.95 paper) The New York Times reported recently on a trend in literary fiction:

The Spoon from Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Landsby Judith Fein. (GlobalAdventure.us, 245 pp. $18.95)   From the time she was a child,

From Irish whiskey at The Dead Rabbit to kosher mixology at The Kosher Institute in Brooklyn.

“The Noir Effect,” a companion exhibit to “Light & Noir” at the Skirball Cultural Center, reinforces the themes of the main exhibit by tracing noir’s

Three exhibits currently on view around the country, from New York to San Francisco to Milwaukee.

Two recent films out of Israel—about women who worked alongside men on one of the first kibbutzim, and about the trauma of 2,000-plus years of exile for Jews.

Some of the latest Jewish-related DVDs, from HBO's new Susan Sontag documentary to the Israeli film The Policeman and the French production The Rabbi's Cat.

With spellbinding reenactments, playwright-actor Tom Dugan brings the famous Nazi hunter to life.