I\’d like to register a complaint against the airline industry. I know that I\’m not alone, that there has been quite a bit of public outcry lately about flight delays and cancellations, but that\’s not my issue.
Like all women, Miriam is a complex human being, whom I cannot fully understand.
Years ago, Mike Bookman got it into his head to write a novel rich in sex, violence, mystery, passion and betrayal.
It wasn\’t the idea of a McFalafel that sparked the ire of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), but a McDonald\’s ad campaign in Egypt for the new falafel patty.
\”Amy\’s Answering Machine\” by Amy Borkowsky (Pocket Books, $14.95).
(Beep.) \”Yeah, hello, Amila. They just said on TV, \’It\’s 10 p.m., do you know where your children are?\’ And I\’m thinking, I don\’t know, so I figured I\’d call you, mamascheinz. You must be in the bathroom or something. Give me a buzz when you\’re done, OK? All right, bye-bye.\”
My wife Susan and I moved to Israel in 1983, a time when, for all intents and purposes, it was considered a pariah nation. In fact, not long before we arrived, the United Nations had declared Zionism to be a form of racism.
These days, the dialogue is on hold — though once again organizers are trying to revive what\’s left of years of intermittent effort.\n\nAttempts at creating a viable relationship between representatives of some 600,000 Jews and 500,000 Muslims in Southern California go back almost as far as the 1948-49 war between Israelis and Arabs, and, as the headlines show, have reflected the fortunes of peace and war in the Middle East.
When Heidi Joyce thinks Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she thinks comedy. It\’s worked for her before in an effort to combat domestic abuse, and it works again in her new play, \”Friends and Enemies.\”
Best known for her \”Stand Up Against Domestic Violence\” comedy fundraisers, Joyce opens her first full-length play this week, which runs through July 29 at North Hollywood\’s Bitter Truth Playhouse.
Jennifer Weiner began writing \”Good in Bed\” during a bout of Dumper\’s Regret in 1998.\n\nShe\’d been dating her nice-Jewish-writer boyfriend for a few years, but no engagement ring was forthcoming. So she requested a trial separation. \”I went home and proceeded to think about the relationship, and he went home and proceeded to date someone else,\” she says.\n\n
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