A Charmed Existence
Michael Aushenker
April 26, 2001
Amy Gerstler lights up as she describes the physical rush it gives her.
Category
writer
Mourning Israel’s Poet
Gil Sedan
September 28, 2000
Yehuda Amichai, a world-renowned poet and one of Israel\’s most famous writers, has died of cancer at the age of 76.
Big-City Girl, Small-Town Crimes
Naomi Pfefferman
August 24, 2000
Author Delia Ephron was visiting her big sister, Nora, in \”the country\” (actually East Hampton) one summer morning when she glanced at the crime report in the local newspaper.
Wings
Teresa Strasser
May 18, 2000
I never thought I\’d find myself in any place called \”The Winner\’sRoom,\” mingling with soap opera stars and clutching a huge gold statue.
Haikus for Jews
Naomi Pfefferman
March 2, 2000
Don\’t let the unfunny introduction to \”Haikus for Jews\” (Harmony Books, $11) fool you.
Culture, High & Low
Gene Lichtenstein
January 13, 2000
Billy Wilder made movies — not auteur films in the manner of Truffaut, not carefully composed scenes like Hitchcock, not \”cinema.\” But movies that were mostly witty and almost always entertaining.
New Vistas
Jewish Journal
November 29, 1999
\”The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape,\” by Joel Kotkin. (Random House, $22.95)\n\nJoel Kotkin, a senior fellow at both Pepperdine University Institute for Public Policy and Milken Institute and a research fellow at the libertarian Reason Public Policy Institute, for 20 years has been researching and writing about what he terms \”intangible\” inputs into economic life.
Comedy Writer to the Stars
Naomi Pfefferman
September 16, 1999
Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer to the stars, picks up the phone. \”Jew speaking,\” he says.
Emmy Award-winning Vilanch, 51, is one of the drollest Jews in Hollywood.
The Let’s Do ‘Dinner Game’
Michael Aushenker
August 26, 1999
Many American filmgoers still aren\’t familiar with Francis Veber. Yet they should be — they\’ve been watching his work for two decades. Sort of.
Hardly a Garden of ‘Eden’
Naomi Pfefferman
August 26, 1999
Jennifer Maisel, who\’s been described as \”David Lynch with estrogen,\” explores child abuse, insanity, suicide, rape. In \”Mating Season,\” a young man sets out to supply all the local sperm banks. In \”Mad Love,\” a 13-year-old girl begs a Christmas-tree salesman to rescue her from her incestuous father. Now comes \”Eden,\” the tale of a suicidal woman with AIDS who withdraws from her friends and her optimistic mother, a Holocaust survivor.
New Articles
Chosen Links – May 21, 2024
Boaz Hepner
May 22, 2024
Unexpected Lessons from a Gardening Project
Judy Gruen
May 22, 2024
‘Heshing’ It Out With ‘Sopranos’ Star Jerry Adler
Alan Zeitlin
May 21, 2024
It’s Not Good to Be Alone
Kylie Ora Lobell
May 21, 2024
Defining Terms in the Middle East
Richard Fliegel
May 21, 2024
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.