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Books
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Aharon Applefeld’s story of unlikely pairings and redemption
“Whores and Jews are always persecuted,” says one of the characters in Aharon Appelfeld’s Blooms of Darkness” (Schocken: $24.00, 288 pps., translated by Jeffrey M. Green). “There’s nothing to be done.”
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Book on Israeli start-ups bolsters Israel’s image
When Intel’s Israeli division proposed a new strategy to vastly improve the processing speed of the company's laptop computer chips, Intel's U.S. management had no interest.
The idea required a fundamental change in Intel’s technological approach, which had been to build what were known as faster “clock speeds” -- essentially, faster "engines" -- to accelerate processing. Israel's division proposed to run the engine of the chip slower, but to gain even more power by configuring a system that used gears like a car.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Memoir’s Glimpse of Anne Frank Draws Skepticism
Frail, cold and surrounded by death, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a survivor of the camp says.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
American Funnyman in Israel’s Army
The first thing you need to know about Joel Chasnoff’s “The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah” (Free Press, $25) is that it’s
laugh-out-loud funny. It was tough for the rest of my household to concentrate on “The Bachelor” for all of my chortles and guffaws, and I was repeatedly asked: “What are you reading?”
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Devil Within: Siri Hustvedt’s Memoir of an Undiagnosed Illness
A fraught moment in the encounter between men and women is the one in which an ailing woman seeks a cure from a healer — sometimes a physician, sometimes a psychotherapist, and sometimes a prophet.
Film
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Politics Elbows Its Way Into Film’s Oscar Party
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Why can’t an Israeli film win an Oscar?
Hollywood Jew
Sunday, March 14, 2010
David Schwimmer engaged to British photographer Zoe Buckman
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Bar Refaeli urged by Jewish nationalists not to marry DiCaprio
Music
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Music Banned by Nazis Finds New Life With L.A. Chamber Orchestra
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
OK Go Build World’s Largest Rube Goldberg Machine in Echo Park
Television
Friday, March 19, 2010
A first look at the Simpsons’ upcoming visit to Israel
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Actor Corey Haim laid to rest
Theater
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Oy! His Mother’s Italian. His Father’s Jewish. And he’s funny
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
David Arquette: The Females of My Life
Tommywood
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Q&A With Mel Brooks
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Rethinking Kasztner
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