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