For several mothers and daughters, Hadassah’s 100th National Convention was a family affair.

The award-winning novelist shares her thoughts on her new novel about a man and a woman who (separately) go to Israel to reset their lives.

Dark humor and mysticism abound in Nicole Krauss’s modern Israel, enlivened by Kabbalistic rabbis, possible ex-Mossad agents and nods to gilgul and Gogol.