Arts & Culture

And The Rat Laughed: Remembering Writer Nava Semel

Excerpts from the novel “And The Rat Laughed,” by the late Nava Semel. Her work was the first to address the topic of the so-called “Second Generation”— children of Holocaust survivors. Nava passed away in December 2017.

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Pick Up After Your Dog With “Tarimu”

‘Tarimu’ means ‘pick up,’ as in, pick up after your dog. It has other meanings as well, especially within Tel Avivi gay lingo.

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Straighten Those Split Ends

The root חל”ק has many meanings involving separation, borders and partitions — but can also come up at the hair stylist, in a stadium or even on a banana peel.

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Tale of Two Friends: “Bliss” by Ronit Matalon

Ronit Matalon’s “Bliss: A Novel” uses flashbacks to tell the story of Sarah, a politically active photographer, and Ofra, a selfless graduate student.

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Got Chutzpah

Chutzpah — when is it positive and when is it negative? And what’s “hutzpah israelit”?

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An Infusion of Religious, Secular, and Sensual Registers: Poems by Esther Ettinger

We end 2017 with an infusion of religious, secular, biblical, and sensual registers and sensibilities as we enter the poetic world of Esther Ettinger.

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So, Then…

English has ‘like’ and ‘kinda’. What do Hebrew speakers use as fillers? And what did we borrow from Arabic?

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The Woman from Nazareth: Dan Banaya-Seri’s “Birds of the Shade”

A story about a simple Jewish man who uses his minimal understanding of Christmas to try to make sense of his marital obligations.

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Ummm . . . Uhhh . . . Errr . . .

Guy talks about fillers like ‘Eh’ in Hebrew and about other things we say when we try to think and talk at the same time.

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