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After Steinberg’s introduction, several individuals sang Hebrew songs of prayer and the larger group joined in. After singing, the gathering observed a three-minute moment of silence...
...extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers 'a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God.' " Horn received a considerable advance for her book. She is now a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard, studying Hebrew and Yiddish...
More or less the entire audience’s pre-show chatter was in Hebrew. Many of the seats were filled with pre-teen Israeli girls dressed for a Britney concert, as well as by couples with hair approaching silver who might have been their parents. Harvard students and twenty-somethings dominated, and all were speaking in Hebrew. The composition of the audience reinforced a key question about Geffen’s music: Can it be meaningful if the listener can’t understand the lyrics...
...switched to acoustic guitar and a harder sound after a few songs. These were rock ballads with titles like “I Love You” and “Our Song.” He followed with a Dylan tune perfectly preserved in its translation into Hebrew. Geffen truly captures the aura of the ’60s folk-rocker...
...already been pulverized. After two days of bombardments, 26 Palestinians were dead. Sharon vowed he would not lead Israel into "all-out war," but many Israelis believe they are already in one. "The crisis is beginning to look chronic," says Nachman Ben-Yehuda, dean of sociology and anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "And when people have chronic illness they adopt certain ways of thinking: despair, anger, frustration...