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The Blessing of Bibhilu

A book\’s opening chapter is crucial to setting the mood and aura for the remainder of the book\’s journey. Likewise, the opening scene of a film usually helps set the tone for what will ensue.

The Passover seder is both a reader\’s experience and a moviegoer\’s. We sit around the table and read the haggadah, and we also witness a host of rituals. But how does the seder leader creatively capture an audience and draw it into the experience from the beginning?

Censoring Mr. Spock

Naked women covered in … tallitot and tefillin? The black-and-white photographs in \”Shekhina\” (Umbrage Editions, $39.95) a new book by Leonard Nimoy — a.k.a. \”Star Trek\’s\” Mr. Spock — have ignited a debate in the Jewish community over art and censorship.

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