Israeli Satire and Mystery
November 13, 1997
I first went wild over \”Salah\” in 1964. More than three decades later, I couldn\’t help wondering whether the Israeli movie would still exert its charm and humor.
Tom Tugend
Design for Living
October 23, 1997
In Act Two: Scene II of Noel Coward\’s \”Design for Living,\” Gilda,the object of everybody\’s affection, gives a thumbnail critique of anew play by Leo, one of her rotating lovers.
One Man’s Journey to Judaism
October 23, 1997
There is nothing tentative or half-way about MarkC. \”Moshe\” Hardie.
Fields: Support for Israel is ‘Conditional’
October 9, 1997
Relations between the Diaspora and Israel \”were torn apart by a lethal combination of rising Orthodox fanaticism and a Netanyahu government that\’s pandering to increasingly crude Orthodox political coercion,\” said Wilshire Boulevard Temple\’s Rabbi Harvey J. Fields, among the American Reform movement\’s most prominent leaders.
Open Door Policy to China
September 25, 1997
\”Israel has 5 million inhabitants and China has 1.2 billion,\” Kaveh said during a visit to Los Angeles last week. \”However, we are both ancient civilizations, which have survived much suffering and mighty empires.\”
Jacob’s Vision
September 25, 1997
One of Rabbi David Aaron\’s favorite biblical analogies derivesfrom the story of Jacob\’s dream, in which the patriarch saw a ladder stretching from earth to the heavens.\n
On Valor, Violinists and Vacations
September 18, 1997
As Berlin bureau chief for the Boston Globe in the late 1980s andearly 1990s, Kaufman traveled widely and tracked the stories andmemories of four Jews and one Catholic, and their families, duringthe momentous 51 years.
Kirk Douglas’ Greatest Role
September 18, 1997
\”The Torah is the greatest screenplay ever written,\” Kirk Douglas says. \”Ithas passion, incest, murder, adultery — really everything.\”
Of Morality and Memory
September 18, 1997
Carole Braverman\’s play revolves around the lives of four women,living in 1980s Brooklyn, and examines the degrees of separation in their willingness to face personal and global tragedy unflinchingly.\n
Cleared of Charges?
September 11, 1997
Charges against a Brooklyn Chassidic rabbi of groping a 15-year-old girl during a transpacific flight were part of an extortion plot and will be dismissed by federal prosecutors.
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