The very flatness and blandness of the matzah remind us of the empty and oppressed lives of the Israelite slaves — and of downtrodden people in all places and in all times.
Question: How is the Middle East road map, which President Bush will submit to Israelis and Palestinians next month, be helpful to the United States and Israel?
Michael and his wife went to a kibbutz in British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s. He joined the navy when war broke out and later ended up teaching French and metal shop at a London high school. It was there that he accepted a challenge that changed his life.
Peter Sollett\’s ebullient romantic comedy, \”Raising Victor Vargas,\” about Hispanic teens in the East Village, began as a short film about, well, himself.
\”The Last Dance\” began when Bank, an acclaimed PBS filmmaker whose work often involves Jewish themes, attended a Pilobolus performance in summer 1998.
When director Andrew Davis first read Louis Sachar\’s acclaimed children\’s novel, \”Holes,\” about a boy sent to a hellish Texas juvenile delinquent camp, he said he \”detected a Jewish family.\” The story of the fictional Stanley \”Caveman\” Yelnats IV flashes back three generations to reveal how his forebears struggled to come to America, \”which reflects the Jewish immigration experience,\” Davis (\”The Fugitive\”) said.
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