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review
At Sundance, ‘The Settlers’ trains lens on movement’s extremist fringe
Jewish Journal
January 29, 2016
What is a settler?
‘The Fame Lunches’: Daphne Merkin is still wishing for mother’s love
Jewish Journal
August 27, 2014
If you were the wild child among more submissive siblings, who refused to be silenced and cried continually, and fought with all the others about their glaring hypocrisies; chances are you were not your parents’ favorite child.
Archaeology, truth, Jerusalem
Jonathan Kirsch
January 3, 2014
Archaeology is more than a science when it comes to Jerusalem, a place where the turn of the spade may reveal an artifact that has political and theological overtones. Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn, authors of “The Archeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans” (Yale University Press, $50), are mindful of these pitfalls.
Book Review: Three different ‘Family’ ways
Jonathan Kirsch
December 12, 2013
Word of mouth is the real maker of best sellers in the publishing world, and I can think of few books with quite as much buzz as David Laskin’s remarkable family chronicle, “The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century” (Viking, $32).
Michael Berenbaum review: Ari Shavit’s ‘My Promised Land’
Michael Berenbaum
December 12, 2013
The anguish of the believer is not the same as that of the renegade, and Ari Shavit writes as a believer in the Zionist enterprise.
Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ a small-town triumph
Melissa Weller
December 8, 2013
Imagine what a movie showcasing an ordinary, lukewarm existence might look like. One without mobs or crooked cops and the only color in the characters’ lives is the blue on their collar.
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