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Israelis living in America…not unusual

March 30, 2023

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Don’t Tell Your Brother Meir Shalev Am Oved Publishers, 2022 263 pages Close to one million Israelis live in the United States and Canada. I happen to be one of them. Thus, Don’t Tell Your Brother by veteran and master Israeli author Meir Shalev (born in Nahalal, Israel 1948), whose books have been translated to [...]

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From Belarussian “Balaboosta” to Broadway Madam

December 15, 2022

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 Madam—The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age   Debby Applegate  553 pp  Doubleday, 2021 Frank Sinatra, Walter Winchell, Lucky Luciano, Dorothy Parker, Duke Ellington, Dutch Schultz, Robert Benchley, Desi Arnaz—and likely FDR. This is just a partial list of Jazz Era writers, celebrities, musicians, gangsters, politicians, and other notables who had one thing [...]

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Linda Cohen Loigman’s novel tells intergenerational story of matchmaking

November 9, 2022

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