The past year has seen a bumper crop of Jewish-themed graphic novels, with subjects ranging from the recent history of the Middle East (Joe Sacco’s “Footnotes in Gaza”) to the ancient mythology of the Middle East (R. Crumb’s “Genesis”) to the poets of the Beat Generation (Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor’s “The Beats”). Still, the…
This week at Manhattan’s Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, writer and director Etgar Keret appeared before the book group of Dor Chadash, an organization that brings together Israeli and American Jews. Much like his stories, Keret, the author of “The Girl on the Fridge” and “Missing Kissinger,” among other books, was incredibly approachable and exciting. In…
Having dubbed her “The Palin of Israel,” Newsweek looks at the model thin resume of Orly Levy — the fashion plate turned Knesset candidate on the hard-right Yisrael Beiteinu list. Of Levy’s candidacy, the Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret tells the magazine: “This would be like Paris Hilton going to the Senate. You could…
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