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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

"The Table at the Back of the Coffee Shop" - short story

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  Up and about when all is quiet, Kevin puts on his sports clothes and running shoes and races through the park. It doesn’t matter if there ...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Review of 'Demon Copperhead' by Barbara Kingsolver

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This week Barbara Kingsolver won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead . This week I finished reading Demon Copperhe...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Review of 'Professor Schiff's Guilt' by Agur Schiff

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The protagonist of this novel does not deny that his "grandfather's grandfather's grandfather was a slave trader". Profess...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Hiking in Israel: Nahal Prat (in pictures)

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Nahal Prat, commonly known as Wadi Qelt, is a stream in a Judean Desert ravine not far from Jerusalem . The stream, with its spring and natu...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Israel at 75

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As Israel marks 75 years since its establishment as the Jewish State, the country is fraught with division, with a profound chasm between vi...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Review of 'The Bibliomaniacs: Tales from a Tel Aviv Bookseller'

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Down an alleyway on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv there is a bookstore described as "probably the biggest collection of used English books...
Monday, April 10, 2023

On the Trail of the Sarajevo Haggadah

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How an illuminated manuscript inspired me to travel to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I first learned of the Sarajevo Haggadah w...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

‘Jerusalem Beach’ by Iddo Gefen Is Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist

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Jerusalem Beach , the short story collection by Iddo Gefen , translated by Daniella Zamir (Astra House, August 2021), is one of four fiction...