On the telephone, Anders speaks exactly like the book she\’s written. Candid, passionate and prone to interspersing the conversation with hysterical impersonations of her mother\’s Cuban-accented English, Anders also emphasized that she \”fiercely loves\” her parents, now in their 70s.
It disturbed me to hear on U.S. public radio and read in The New York Times that Saul Bellow was to be seen as simply an American writer — which, of course, he is — and not significantly a Jewish writer.
Maybe they think they\’re doing him a favor? I think they\’re bleaching out a lot of the substance of Bellow, who died Tuesday at 89.
Rosenstock is one of six Jewish screenwriters who will appear on a panel to discuss how Judaism affects their work as part of The Jewish Screenwriter Speakers Series on March 29 and May 3 at B\’nai David-Judea.
\”If we don\’t change something now, if people don\’t open their eyes, we\’re not gonna have a world,\” said director Eva Minemar during a rehearsal with \”God of Vengeance,\” the classic Sholem Asch play.
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin said that he was inspired to write the book, which CBS plans to bring to the small screen in fall 2005, after he conducted a hypnotic regression with a friend of his who went back to a life in the year 1853.
\”I am Jewish,\” were the words Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl spoke to his terrorist captors shortly before they murdered him.
The three A\’s in \”Natasha\” are filled in by tiny stylized Matryoshka dolls, the traditional Russian stacking dolls, on the book jacket of David Bezmozgis\’ radiant debut (Farrar Straus and Giroux, $18).
In this collection of linked stories, the three figures at the center are a mother, father and son who leave Riga, Latvia, for Toronto, Canada. The stories are told from the point of view of the son, Mark Berman, who observes everything and helps interpret the New World for his parents.
\”Love is a fine thing,\” the Yiddish saying goes, \”but love with noodles is even tastier.\”
A l Franken, \”Saturday Night Live\” alumnus, political commentator and satirist made headlines recently when the Fox News Channel sued him for using the term \”Fair and Balanced\” in the title of his new book, \”Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them, A Fair and Balanced Look at The Right\” (Dutton, 2003).
Writer Amy Hirshberg Lederman became obsessed with learning Hebrew, spending every hour of the day — in the classroom, on the streets, at home, even in her sleep.
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