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JERUSALEM The Disappointed Peacenik DORIT SEIDEMAN, 40/three children...
...Dorit Seideman's daughter Yael, 7, had been learning about the biblical Pharaoh before the Passover holiday earlier this month. Yael's schoolteacher assigned her to write a letter to Pharaoh. "Dear Pharaoh, please come over for coffee," she wrote. "I'd like to ask you to bomb the Palestinians." Seideman was appalled. "Do you really want to kill them all?" she asked. "No," said Yael, "only the bad ones." Right now Israel's official policy is in line with Yael's letter, and that's disturbing to Seideman, who campaigned for the Peace Now movement until the birth...
...GIRL WITH A PEARL NECKLACE PW adores "The Strand of a Thousand Pearls" by Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling...
Double Take. Featuring performanceartist Dorit Cypus. the show follows a womantraveling through myth, history, fantasy, dreamsand desire. Fogg Art Museum, 8 and 10 p.m. $5 forstudents...
...Dorit Baxter opened a spa in midtown Manhattan after listening to her skin- care clients say how they longed to visit a spa for only two hours. Now they can get slathered in a thick green paste made from Mediterranean seaweed, baked, cooled, cleansed, and then zip back to the office in little more than an hour. Her first male customers, Baxter reports, appeared reluctantly, at the urging of a wife or a girlfriend. Now, they book such treatments as a head-to-toe application of mud from the Dead Sea or a deep-muscle vibration massage. Robert MacDonald, partner...