When I was growing up in Canada, I always looked up to Israeli teenagers. I was fortunate to spend my high school summers in Israel and participate in programs together with Israeli teens, which served to intensify my admiration for them. I thought they were strong, bold and courageous for both getting drafted to the…
As a straight, married woman, I often refer to my husband as my partner. Sari, in your recent post on The Sisterhood, you wrote that you’re discomfited by heterosexuals’ use of the term “partner” to refer to their significant other. I’ve used the term consciously not because I wanted to steal anything semantic from gay…
Lately, something confusing has started to happen. I’ll find myself at a wedding or an academic conference or a dinner party and I’ll meet a heterosexual who invariably makes reference to his or her “partner,” a term once employed mainly by gays and lesbians to refer to same-sex significant others. Now, in what seems to…
Yes, this is about lesbian yeshiva girls; yes, there is some hot action; yes, the actresses themselves are sexy. But, in the best Horatian tradition (“delight and instruct”), there is plenty of instruction hiding behind the sensationalist delight. But Avi Nesher’s “The Secrets” is no sordid potboiler with a couple of redeeming insights. Although only…
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