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The Smile on the Dog
Jay Michaelson and Rebecca Goldstein discuss atheism, mysticism and God in Rebecca’s latest book
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Bad Karma
‘Fifteen shekels a month can guarantee your daughter one hundred thousand in the event of your death. Do you know what a difference one hundred thousand can make to a young orphan?…
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This Thread of Life
Paul Auster and David Grossman in conversation at the second International Writers Festival at Mishkenot in Jerusalem.
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United
On the fifteenth day of October the Festival of Judaism began. Its slogan — draped on banners across the entrance and printed on the front of glossy Souvenir Brochures — was ‘the…
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Shadow Play
On summer evenings, Uncle Nathan used to put on shadow plays. With nothing but ten fingers and a beam of light against a plain white wall, he astounded us with lions and monkeys,…
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My Man Malamud
I never met him. I know exactly where I was standing when I heard he was dead. It was in March 1986 and a friend came in to tell me that the Jewish American novelist I admired had…
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