Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Israel News Shortcuts: Borat’s Hebrew, Mel’s Latest Problem, Rabbi Guns for Rosie
Rumor has it that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat is quite the polyglot. According to an item posted on The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz blog, throughout Cohen’s soon-to-be-released film ‘Borat,’ the character speaks not Kazakh, as one might expect, but Hebrew — even when engaging in antisemitic tirades. Speaking of antisemitic tirades, it’s been nearly two…
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Culture New Book Incites Scholarly Fracas
As a book that that seeks to upend commonly held historical notions, Robert N. Rosen’s “Saving the Jews” is by its very nature a combative work. But even by Rosen’s standards, his 17th chapter is a confrontational one. It is here that he engages FDR’s detractors most directly, in language that prompted 55 scholars to…
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Culture Redrawing Family History
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors By Bernice Eisenstein Riverhead Books, 192 pages, $23.95. Early in her new memoir, author-illustrator Bernice Eisenstein recalls the experience of having seen the 1982 Holocaust drama “Sophie’s Choice,” which arrived in theaters when she was in her early 30s. Eisenstein describes her deep, visceral response to the picture…
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Israel News Mining Life’s Tiny Thrills
By all rights, a scene featuring a kindly grandma falling over and banging her head on a wooden synagogue pew should not be funny, but in the hands of Wendy Spero, somehow it miraculously is. Spero describes the episode in her new book, “Microthrills,” an enchanting memoir of a childhood spent in a cramped, one-bedroom…
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News Gibson’s New Line: Forgive Me, Foxman, For I Have Sinned
The book on Mel Gibson was reopened this week, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee began the latest entry. It was Mee who, in early hours of July 28, pulled over a drunken Gibson as the actor-director was speeding along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif. And it was Mee who penned…
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News Fast Forward; A Shared Vision
When scholar Arnold Eisen and painter Jill Nathanson decided to collaborate on a project, they began with a deceptively simple question: Does revelation have a visual component? Yes, the divine essence was revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai, but what, exactly, did the prophet see? The fruit of the pair’s yearlong collaboration is “Seeing Sinai,”…
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News Conference Set To Examine the History of Modern Orthodoxy
Conventional wisdom has it that the Modern Orthodox movement can be traced back to a single figure — Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the 19th-century German theologian who argued that a balance was possible between a belief in the divine authority of scripture and citizenship in the modern world. The reality, say the organizers of a…
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Israel News Magician Takes a Plunge
On May 1, stunt-meister David Blaine dove into an 8-foot-wide “human aquarium” on the plaza in front of New York’s Lincoln Center, where — connected to tubes supplying oxygen and nutrient-rich fluids — he plans to stay until May 8. In a Houdini-esque finale, Blaine plans to take off his oxygen mask, wrap himself in…
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