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Golan Takes Films to New Heights

May 15, 2003

\”Return from India\” is one of the 18 new films, documentaries and TV dramas showing at the 19th Israel Film Festival, from May 28-June 8. Based on A.B. Yehoshua\’s best-selling book \”Open Heart,\” \”India,\” directed and co-produced by veteran filmmaker Menachem Golan, portrays a somewhat preposterous love story between the young Dr. Ben Rubin (Aki Avni) and the older Dori Lazar (Riki Gal) as they accompany her husband (Asi Dayan) to India to save their sick daughter. Golan was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film including \”Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt\” (1977) and \”Sallah Shabati\” (1964); his film \”The Assault\” (1986) won the Oscar.

Aliyah Perspectives

May 8, 2003

From Los Angeles, Israel is 20 hours away by plane and 10 hours ahead on the clock; it\’s also a world apart.

On the Road

May 1, 2003

Here\’s what you miss when you go on an organized mission to Israel: You miss the closed-top market in Rosh Ayin, where sellers out-shout each other over megaphones, \”Underwear, girls\’ underwear, three for 10 shekels.\”

On The Road

April 24, 2003

Here\’s what you miss when you go on an organized mission to Israel: You miss the closed-top market in Rosh Ayin, where sellers out-shout
each other over megaphones, "Underwear, girls\’ underwear, three for 10 shekels."

Who Will Be Esther?

March 13, 2003

I\’ve always had an affinity for Esther, the Persian queen who saved the Jews and had an entire megillah named for her.

A Single Problem

February 13, 2003

Look, I know you\’re busy. What with the spouse, the children, the job, the synagogue, the gym, the board meetings, the dinners —
it\’s hard to find a moment in your day, your week, your month, your life.

Making Marriage Work

February 6, 2003

Does 2 percent of the country really believe legalizing pot is the most important issue? Are 12 percent really going to vote for Lapid, a former in-your-face talk-show host whose primary goal is to secularize the country?

Making Marriage Work

January 23, 2003

Like marijuana?

Believe in men\’s rights? Want a secular state?

If you happen to have an offbeat or nonmainstream platform for Israel, now is the time to run in the Jan. 28 parliamentary elections. One lesson to be learned from the list of the 30 parties vying for Knesset (see page 18) is that Israelis are disenfranchised, and looking for alternatives to the major National Security issue.Â

And while Aleh Yarok (Green Leaf) — the party promoting marijuana legalization — always seems to hit the headlines a week or two before elections (despite publicity before the last elections in 1999, the party mustered 34,029 votes, representing slightly more than 1 percent of the electorate — 15,000 votes short of the 1.5 percent threshold for Knesset membership), other parties with less headline-grabbing platforms are really set to win big.

Pay Attention

November 7, 2002

Yasser Arafat exiled. Tel Aviv striking back forcefully at Iraq against America\’s wishes. The expansion of settlements. The permanent reoccupation of Palestinian territories.

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