And, as the second show in the Tricycle's Not Black and White season, it goes down a storm with its audience and raises a host of issues: too many, in fact, for a play that basically offers a plausible portrait...
Set in Palestine in 1947, the film follows Proffy Liebowitz (Ido Port), a precocious 12-year-old forever sassing his parents and fulminating against the British occupiers. With a father (Rami Hoebreger) who does nothing but nag and a mother (Gilya Stern)...
Opens Friday at the Embarcadero and the Kabuki. The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a dybbuk — is pretty...
6 Dec 2004 24 Aug 2007: Don’t underestimate the power of these little shiny details. A gold button can elevate an ordinary item of clothing into a bona fide trend piece. Without them, the blue wool jacket is so-so; with...
Shlomo Sand clearly intended his book as an explosive device, a big bang demolishing the myths of Jewishness on which both communal identity and Israeli state policies rest. His hostile critics react as if it were a deadly bomb, a...
It's like a tree that's pulled out by its roots and planted somewhere else. It doesn't grow," she tells her sister, Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), newly arrived from the West Bank. But Muna reminds her sister she hasn't been back...
If I had a fiver for everyone I've heard say, "I never watch any television apart from the news and David Attenborough", well, it would probably cover my licence fee. But while there being Nothing on TV has been a...
How else to explain the popularity of singles such as "Formed a Band," which boasts the intent to write a song so revolutionary, Israel and Palestine will reunite?...Satan , got the magic touch from producer Frank Black , as Argos...
From Economic Sociology , a special issue on the commodification of the body , including essays on a market for human cadavers and markets in human organs. More on An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu. Let them eat...
In a new roundup of the morning's front pages you'll be glad to hear that our measured press corps refuses to read too much into last night as a ridiculous referendum on Obama so soon into his presidency...Most of the...
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