Secret Lives

Nextbook–February 10, 2009

Rarely do secular Jews picture the ultra-Orthodox building a snowman, sprawled piss-drunk across a table, or half-naked and covered in mud at the Dead Sea. But Israeli photographer Menahem Kahana’s exhibition of provocative, often humorous photographs—on display at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv through June 30—reveals a side of this community [...]

Unprejudiced: A Jane Austen classic reset in the Galilee

January 27, 2009– Nextbook
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” So begins Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Though rife with Victorian frills, the book has aged remarkably well in the 200 years since it was published, and has been [...]