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Dai—the title of Israeli-American comic Iris Bahr‘s 2008 one-woman play–is a Hebrew word that means “enough.” Dai also sounds like an English word, die, which is a chilling and emotional summary of the play: It covers the final seconds in the lives of eleven people sitting in an Israeli café, just before a suicide bomber strikes. Over the course of the play, Bahr portrays […]

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Here’s a story of demons, supernatural nuptials, and a dog who makes a pilgrimage. The Book of Tobit dates back more than 2500 years, to 700 BCE. It’s considered part of the apocrypha–a set of works that were written around the time of the later biblical works, but never made the cut to be included in the Jewish biblical canon. Tobit, the story […]

One of this summer’s biggest-budget films has an unexpected cameo, of sorts…from David Ben-Gurion. Green Lantern, a new film about a superhero who wields–you guessed it–a magical green lantern, is based on the comic book of the same name. It was first published in 1941. In the comic’s July 1960 issue, artist Gil Kane (real name: Eli Katz) first depicted […]

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