The Forward–November 26, 2008
The Clothes on Their Backs
By Linda Grant
Scribner, 304 pages, $27.50 (hardcover), $14 (trade paperback).
Toward the end of Philip Roth’s poignant story “Eli the Fanatic,” Eli, exhausted by his fruitless efforts to get a Hasidic yeshiva to leave his nicely acculturated Jewish neighborhood, decides to adopt a different strategy. He wraps his Brooks [...]
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The Art of War
Forward–October 2, 2008
Two years ago in the midst of the Second Lebanon War, the popular French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy, was sent to Israel by the New York Times Magazine to “ponder, discuss and travel” as the title of his piece suggested. The result, an essay defending the country’s military confrontation against vociferous critics, was [...]
