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Review: 'Mazeltov'

3 weeks ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Jaime Herndon

Email Print MazeltovBy Eli Zuzovsky (Henry Holt and Co.)It would be easy to categorize Mazeltov as a coming-of-age story, and it is indeed that, but it is also much more. An unexpected, nonlinear bildungsroman told from multiple perspectives, the book explores queer sexuality, religion and anxiety amid the touchstones of Israeli young adulthood.
Review: 'Fagin the Thief'

3 weeks ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Bryan Schwartzman

Email Print Fagin the ThiefBy Allison Epstein (Doubleday)Charles Dickens’s depiction of the character Fagin in Oliver Twist is irredeemably antisemitic—even more so than Shylock, that other famously reviled Jewish literary character from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Fagin, who takes in children off the street to train them in a life of crime, is, in Dickens’s description, cruel, manipulative, greedy, demonic and, as we’re told more than 300 times, a Jew.
Playing a Female Rabbi on Television

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Susan Hornik

Email Print Elsa Guedj was thrilled when she won best actress for Le Sens Des Choses—French for “the sense of meaning”—at this year’s Series Mania, an acclaimed international television festival in France. “I am very happy!” she said in an interview several weeks after receiving the award. “It’s my very first award.
Hadassah's Slam Dunk

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Barbara Sofer

Email Print The starting five were warming up on the court, dribbling, passing and throwing hoops in Jerusalem’s Malha Arena. Home team Hapoel Lev Jerusalem was playing archrivals Elitzur Ramla. Shooting guard Alyssa Baron’s three-pointers flew through the hoop, as Shir Tirosh, the shortest player at 5’5”, practiced her alley-oop offensive play from under the basket. The tallest of the team is agile, swift Anja Fuchs-Robetin at 6’1”.
New Photos Capture Jewish Storytelling and Folklore

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Judy Bolton-Fasman

Email Print Among the 34 luminous photographs, many of women, displayed in Hannah Altman’s exhibition at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery in Waltham, Mass., is an image of an older woman with her face raised toward the light. Underneath her chin is a Torah pointer that is positioned in a way that suggests it is holding up her head.
Summertime in Graz and Salzburg

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Hilary Danailova

Email Print As my daughter—who’s seen the film 41 times—will tell you, there are myriad reasons to love The Sound of Music. She would highlight a dashing young Christopher Plummer; Julie Andrews’ ringing bell of a soprano; a score by the iconic Jewish musical team of Rogers & Hammerstein; and the seven adorable von Trapp kids do-re-mi-ing their way through alpine landscapes. For me, as an adult, the top reason is the film’s portrayal of resolutely anti-Nazi Austrians.
New Jewish Novels and Poetry From New Jersey to Texas

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Sandee Brawarsky

Email Print The Red HouseBy Mary Morris (Doubleday)When Laura is a child in New Jersey, her mother goes missing, a moment that becomes the fault line in her life. Nothingis the same again. Decades later, Laura, the novel’s narrator, heads to her mother’s native Italy in search of clues. A cinematic story with many twists and a jagged timeline, Mary Morris’s writing is visually rich with scenes of Italian city streets and coastlines.
A Thinking Mother's Memoir

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Judy Bolton-Fasman

Email Print Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays By Nicole Graev Lipson (Chronicle Books)In her debut collection, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters, Nicole Graev Lipson is unflinching and honest, poetic and learned, intelligent and emotional. Her 12 essays are seasoned with Jewish learning as they explore motherhood’s complexities, challenges and joys, showcasing the author, journalist and essayist’s impressive command of English literature and women’s history.
The Mom Who Co-Designed Israel’s Supreme Court Building

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Curt Schleier

Email Print Ada Karmi-Melamede is considered one of Israel’s most celebrated architects. Over the past four decades, the 88-year-old Israel Prize recipient has designed some of the nation’s most iconic public buildings, perhaps none more so than the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, which she conceived of with her late brother, Ram Karmi.
Books on Motherhood in All Its Permutations

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Judy Bolton-Fasman

Email Print Since I became pregnant with my daughter over 30 years ago, I have been something of a 24-hour sentry. I can’t seem to break the impulse that left me on duty as a parent morning, noon and night, seven days a week. The psychology books have a descriptor for me—I am hypervigilant. When my girl was a baby, I stood over her to listen to her sweet breathing almost every day. My hypervigilance later extended to her test-taking in college, and beyond.