Rebuked by government, Mossad chief still offers opinions Plus A'jad's dangerous game, Galliano in court, and more in the news One way to improve U.S. relations Franz Krieger took propaganda photos, including of Jews  | |  David Mamet's The Secret Knowledge, an assault on liberal values and politics, should be viewed not as a polemic but as a yet-to-be-written play about his usual subjects: scams and hustlers A book jacket photo dated 1977, from around the time playwright David Mamet first began to hit it big, shows him holding a cigarette and glasses gingerly in one hand. His other hand slides into the front pocket of his tight jeans; he wears a leather bomber jacket with the collar rakishly turned up, and a black turtleneck. Eyes sad and dark, skin smooth and white, he appears as the child of two figures he became obsessed with: the Tough Jew and the Scholar. You can imagine that even then Mamet might have been dreaming up the title of his most recent polemic, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture. More  | Blumi Lazar's nuptials—she's the daughter of Berel Lazar, the chief rabbi of Russia—attracted 1,500 people to one of Moscow's biggest parks, a scene that was unimaginable just 20 years ago More BY JULIA IOFFE |  | David Tanis, Chez Panisse chef, cookbook author, and now food columnist for the New York Times, is best known for his seasonal cuisine. But this Midwestern-born chef cites Jewish food as his culinary roots. More |  | In the charming new French comedy The Names of Love, a Jewish man, the square son of Holocaust survivors, falls in love with an Arab hippie who sleeps with right-wingers to turn them liberal More BY JOSEPH WINKLER | |
No comments:
Post a Comment