Israel
Cinema at its best is a a place where seemingly irresolvable conflicts can find, if not resolution, then some common ground.
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The plot of The Red Balcony ticks along briskly. Jonathan Wilson is a gifted narrator and scene-maker.
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With Tantura, brimming with evidence that will now be hard to suppress, director Alon Schwarz may have won an important battle in the war of conflicting narratives about Israel’s war of independence.
Read More“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”
Read MoreVia Dolorosa would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.
Read MoreIt took me until I was nearly done with The Betrayers to step back and realize that one reason I found it so absorbing is that alienation plays no part.
Read MoreThere’s room to wonder if Vladmir Jabotinsky would have accepted Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu as his legitimate Zionist heirs.
Read MoreMulti-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as the son of an Israeli Jewish mother and Palestinian Moslem father born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.
Read MoreIn “Some Day,” Shemi Zarhin has masterfully woven together a tangle of bittersweet tales and elusive dreams. it is a book that is a pleasure to read and reread.
Read MoreThere are so many characters to root for in “The Wanting” that you tend to read with your head swimming, and with an increasing sense of urgency as the senseless is revealed to have a logic of its own.
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