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

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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

Celebrating the Diaspora Although much of Jewish history mourns the diaspora and the Jewish people’s disbursement to the four corners of the earth, one literary

Films Army of Crime What Paris’s Nazi occupiers label an “army of crime” is in fact a group of refugees and communists, mostly Jews, led

FICTION Rich Boy, Sharon Pomerantz’s debut novel, exemplifies book publisher Twelve’s mission to bring out only 12 books a year that “explain our culture,” works