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...organized gangs' operations probably involve no more than a few hundred criminals, including accomplices. But there is a rise of random crime as well. Once, before the state was founded, the late Zionist Poet Chaim Nahman Bialik used to say that he dreamed of the day when Jews could live like ordinary people, and "I will see a Jewish thief." In that sorry sense, a Zionist dream has been fulfilled. Armed robbery and burglaries are on the rise: an auto is stolen every ten minutes. Worse, there were 74 murders in the country last year, up from...
...Sinai will be a traumatic experience. Many are already bitter and confused. Says Sara Feifels, 40, a Sinai settler since 1974: "When we heard about Camp David, it was like someone saying our child was dying. I went through a period like mourning." Feifels and her husband Chaim run the general store in Yamit, an ambitious Israeli development town begun seven years ago near the Gaza Strip. Today Yamit is less than one-quarter complete. The stores in its tidy shopping center are gradually closing...
Jocelyn Davey is the nom de plume of Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who has been an Oxford don, a Foreign Office functionary and spokesman for the Treasury, and is as volubly at home in the fleshpots of North America as he is among the ar cane outer reaches of literature, music and art. It is no secret that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard...
...nightclub in New York called Peacock's Piano Bar. Customers dance the hora on its oversize dance floor, "I miss Israel," Mizrahi says. "That's why I started this club. I wanted to give Israelis in America some of the spirit of home." Another successful immigrant is Chaim Zitman, 34, who left Israel 13 years ago as a student, and has become a millionaire selling electronic equipment. Zitman is now a U.S. citizen, but like many emigrants he has also kept his Israeli passport. There are many more opportunities in America, he says. "But to give...
Modigliani is a portrait of the artist as a Montparnasse bum, or rather three: Modigliani's companions are his fellow painters and fellow flops-as the 1916 taste makers viewed them-Maurice Utrillo and Chaim Soutine. Utrillo (Ethan Phillips) is in thrall to two false gods, alcohol and his mother. Soutine (George Gerdes) is a color addict equally intoxicated by the stains on a butcher's apron and the veins of a plucked chicken. Led by Modigliani (Jeffrey de Munn), these Three Musketeers of the Night smash up cheap restaurants, cadge drinks, slash their canvases in frustrated rage...