Word: dorit
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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...