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Playwright’s Alter Ego Returns Home

Naomi Pfefferman September 2, 2004

\”Boy\” revolves around 40ish novelist Eric Weiss, who returns home — actually to the hospital where he was born — to visit his dying father, Manny, a shoe salesman. It\’s his first trip back in a while, and he\’s ambivalent: \”I saw what Brooklyn did to my parents, and I knew I had to get the hell out of here,\” he tells a friend. \”I saw … the fear, the xenophobia, the suffocating double grip the Holocaust and the Depression had around their throats.\”

A Mitzvah Is Its Arab-Israeli Enmity Vanishes at Hospital

Andrea Adelson July 1, 2004

To avoid being branded as a collaborator, most Palestinians would not admit to accepting aid from Israel. Samera bravely told her story to A-Sinara, the largest Arabic-language newspaper in the region. Her experience \”was diametrically opposed to everything she\’d been told,\” Larry Rich said.

Justice or Character Assassination?

Andrea Adelson July 1, 2004

The painful case reveals the vulnerability of clergy to character assassination as well as the difficulty for lay people in challenging a religious entity that keeps its decisions secret.

‘Shrek 2’ Writer Gets His Happy Ending

Gaby Wenig July 1, 2004

Before David Weiss came to Hollywood as a 24-year-old screenwriter hopeful, the elders of his church put their hands on him to entrust him with a Godly mission.

How a Death Can Save Lives

Andrea Adelson March 4, 2004

\”When they hear Blanche\’s story, they get it,\” Tenaya Wallace said. \”She was so sick; it was an absolute transformation.\”

All-Female Plays Fill Niche for Frum

Gaby Wenig February 26, 2004

For \”Portraits in Faith,\” Robin Garbose\’s husband, Levi, adapted a novel by Marcus Lehman, a 19th-century German writer who is something of a John Grisham of the Orthodox world. His books typically are plot-driven, hard-to-put-down novels that are infused with messages of faith.

Viva la Cinema!

Corrie MacLaggan February 5, 2004

In Veracruz, Mexico, there lived a group of people who for generations had avoided eating pork and lit candles on Friday night without knowing why. In the early 1980s, some members of the group discovered their Jewish roots and converted to Judaism, and now, 20 years later, are still struggling for acceptance from the Jewish community in Mexico.

Their story is being told in \”Eight Candles,\” a 2002 Mexican documentary, one of nine Jewish films being shown in Mexico\’s first Jewish film festival.

Desperate Days of ‘House’ Director

Naomi Pfefferman December 18, 2003

The day before he discovered the novel \”House of Sand and Fog\” in 2001, Vadim Perelman asked his chauffeur to drive him to a slum in suburban Rome. Perelman, a successful commercial director, was in Italy on an AT&T shoot. But he wanted to return to the tenement that had been his home when he arrived from Kiev with his mother in 1977.

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