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Shira D. Kieval ’04—who planned to study Hebrew at Haifa University in northern Israel this summer through a program not sponsored by Harvard—said she would not let the new policy affect her decision...
Human beings require hope, even in seasons of darkness. We survive on the belief that today’s nightmare will be redeemed by tomorrow’s light—that this too shall pass, as the Hebrew proverb...
...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...
...Those looking for a military victory over the Palestinian uprising got some bad news recently from Martin van Creveld, a world-renowned military historian from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose work is routinely studied in U.S. military academies. Writing in Britain's Telegraph, Van Creveld warns that the lessons of comparable situations show that Israel cannot defeat the Palestinians. Israel may have one of the world's strongest conventional fighting forces ranged against an enemy armed only with assault rifles, homemade bombs, mortars and rockets, but that asymmetry is reversed when it comes to political will, he writes...
Declarations like this one are an uncommon occurrence. In this case, the day of prayer coincided with the beginning of the Hebrew month of Nissan, which begins today...