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Benjamin Schwartz
11-05-2007
01:13 PM ET (US)
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Hi all...
i found a website of two israeli guys that provide a service of sending a wish to the western wall in jerusalem.
they charge for this service but they give you a proof of them placing the wish note in the wall (a picture of them in the western wall with your wish and your name on it)
i've used their service and it was fast and i got my proof.
i recommend you to try it or at list take a look.
http://www.holylandwish.com/
SHALOM, Benjamin
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Bookninja  02-16-2005
10:54 PM ET (US)
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The fictional Jew
Wendy Shalit clarifies her stance on Orthodox Jewish fiction.
To be sure, fiction is not sociology, and sometimes a negative slant can enliven a story. But when all your Orthodox characters are cold and dysfunctional, and unlike anything this group understands itself to be, then I think one must ask what else might be going on. Ironically, I feel my colleagues underestimate the importance of their own books, as if to say: "Oh, never mind our little stories, they have no impact anyway."
But literature matters. 18th-century French literature was a reflection of, and shaped what became, modern society`s dominant notions of the social contract. How is the treatment of Orthodox Jews in fiction affecting our society and particularly, the rest of the world`s perception of the Jews? I don`t pretend to know the answer to this, but I feel we should be permitted to ask the question.
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Bookninja 02-08-2005
10:55 PM ET (US)
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Getting her family's knickers in a schvitz
Pearl Abraham, pictured here falling out of her chair, writes about Hasidism* from a new perspective.
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Paul Vermeersch 02-08-2004
11:01 PM ET (US)
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I wouldn't think having such distinguished predecessors would be all that much of a detriment. It is clearly established that a strong Jewish-Canadian literary tradition exists, and furthermore that much of it finds its roots in Montreal. For the emerging writers of Jewish heritage who hails from Montreal, they benefit from being able to add their voices to a highly regarded chorus… that is, of course, if they have the goods talent-wise.
Far worse a fate belongs to those who have no such foundation on which to build, or perhaps to divert from. A writer from a less-established or un-established tradition must first lay that foundation, and hope someone notices.
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Bookninja 02-08-2004
10:28 PM ET (US)
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"It's not enough for a Canadian poet with a Jewish background to write good poems. He or she has to survive comparison to Leonard Cohen, A.M. Klein and Irving Layton. A novelist or polemicist has to walk in the shadow of Mordecai Richler."
The plight of the Montreal Jew.
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Bookninja 11-17-2003
09:37 PM ET (US)
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Next!
More on Nextbook.
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Bookninja 11-11-2003
09:44 PM ET (US)
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Nextbook Programme Promotes Jewish Culture Through Reading
Yes, yes, but doesn't the accompanying picture of Michael Chabon make him look like a woman in drag?
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