Stuart Schoffman
By Stuart Schoffman
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News Lessons of Nepal
In the hillside farming village of Mahadev Besi, west of Kathmandu, half a dozen middle-aged Jews from Jerusalem sit cross-legged on the floor of a bamboo shed, listening to the local women. Most of us are members of the board of Tevel b’Tzedek, an Israeli organization that sends young volunteers to combat poverty in Nepal….
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Culture Out of Step, and Out of This World
Journal of a UFO Investigator By David Halperin Viking, 294 pages, $25.95 “I sat swaying over the book, poring over its words. I could make out nearly all that the Gypsies had written if I stuck with it long enough. The meaning was something else again. But that’s the way of a scripture: it’s often…
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Opinion Fuhgeddaboudit
Israelis are an impatient people. They speak dugri (“directly,” an import from Arabic). They get to the point. Haval (guttural, as in Hanukkah) means “too bad.” Al hazman means “about the time.” Haval al hazman: It’s a waste of time. Don’t even look at her, haval al hazman, she has a tall, dark paratrooper boyfriend….
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Culture Theology in the Poconos
Nemesis By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 304 pages, $26 ‘The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. Then she stepped out to the edge of the diving board and looked foggily into the pool; it could have been drained, myopic Brenda would never have known it.” These very first…
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