Eli Gottlieb
By Eli Gottlieb
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Life Zoom Seders are far from ideal, says this psychologist. But here’s how to make the best of it.
In a dramatic ruling this month, Orthodox rabbis in Israel permitted families separated by Covid-19 to join each other for Seder via streaming video. This overturned two centuries of Orthodox practice, which prohibits use of electrical appliances on Sabbath and Festivals. The rabbis invoked the principle of piquah nefesh – saving life. They feared that…
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Culture Dissecting a Trial of Love, Hate and Human Despair
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial By Janet Malcolm Yale University Press, 155 pages, $25 In October 2007, a crime rocked the clannish, insular community of Bukharan Jews settled in the Forest Hills section of Queens. Bukharan Jews, descended from a mysterious Asian pottage of influences, are thought by some to be…
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Culture Something Happened, and Then It Didn’t
Nothing Happened and Then It Did By Jake Silverstein W.W. Norton & Co., 231 pp, $23.95 There are many good reasons to avoid reviewing books you don’t like. Among the principal ones are that books are so damnably hard to write and so easy to disparage. There is also the feeling of kicking an object…
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Culture Yours Is the Earth and Everything In It
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son By Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 320 pages, $25.99. The moment occurs in the life of nearly every important novelist, sooner or later. And in these novelists’ defense, often as not, they cry, “My editor made me do it!” “It” in this case is…
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Culture Organs of Laughter and Bile
When Ian McEwan was quoted in a recent profile as saying that “most novels are boring,” he was responding to those who had pigeonholed his books as merely highbrow thrillers, and asserting the fundamental aspiration of all good books, literary or not: that they be interesting. As regards novels, McEwan’s judgment was spot-on. Most of…
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