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...miserable." But especially since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected the peace proposals that Bill Clinton and then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak offered at Camp David in 2000, that sympathy has been colored by wariness and anger. "The Palestinians have no real recognition of the right of the Jewish people to have a state and a peaceful and secure life," says Yoav. The Simons wish Arafat had more guts. Even if he were to make a deal now, they aren't sure they would trust him. Orly chides the Palestinian Authority for squandering the aid it has received, instead...
...they turn away from war, of course. Why not? What do we have against the Jewish people? They are part of our world...
...more decisive than Jessica. The design for living they develop can hardly be called a romp. It is, instead, an edgy exploration of role playing and sexual choice in a climate where all options are acceptable--even to Jessica's mom, who is not as traditionally suburban and Jewish as she first seems. Written by its two leading actresses and alertly, discreetly directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, the movie avoids commitment to either a gay or straight agenda. Each woman is allowed to act on the logic of her most basic sexual impulses. What they gain from their experience...
...perhaps the most humbling giant step of his career, one that may finally make people stop asking, "Henry who?" Q&A TIME: There was talk after Shylock of your doing Fiddler on the Roof, but you were reluctant to be typecast as a Jewish actor. So why Bialystock, a very Jewish role? GOODMAN: I want to celebrate being a Jewish actor, but I don't want to become trapped and ghettoized. My Jewishness is there to be tapped into when it's appropriate, as here. But my last play, Feelgood, was totally different. I'd actually like to play Othello...
TIME: You grew up in London's Jewish East End, which produced great theaterfolk from Harold Pinter to Lionel Bart. What did it teach you? GOODMAN: There was a defined Jewish community there, but we were anxious to blend in - which is why Jews gave their children good English names like Henry. I did my first musical at the age of 16, and there were lots of different communities in it. All those influences were just as important as studying Stanislavsky at RADA [Royal Academy of Dramatic...