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Remind her of you r- love
everyday with a Valentine's
or more than 10 years, lis- Loves Kids (Kar-Ben Copies,
teners have poured into Inc.) is a 288-page guide by Bar-
Jerusalem College and bara Sofer, listing adventures
Pardes Institute to hear even the most well-seasoned vis-
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's per- itor to Israel probably has never
encountered.
spectives on the Torah.
When visiting Ashkelon, check
What's all the fuss? In a nation
of biblical experts, what does Mrs. out the Hafetz Hayim Kibbutz
Zornberg have that's so unusual? Water Park, a water park for re-
Genesis: The Beginning of ligious families (separate swim-
Desire (Jewish Publication So- ming for the sexes). In nearby
ciety of America) is a col-
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lection of Mrs. Zornberg's 11-13-11'
writings. It reveals her
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ability not only to incorpo-
rate insight from tradi-
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own understanding of the
text, but also her sheer
mastery of the English lan- Where to start in Jerusalem? One author has
guage. It is mesmerizing. some ideas.
She discusses, for exam-
ple, the curious relationship be- Ashdod, you can see the Golfitek
tween Jacob and his wife, Leah. miniature golf course.
Jerusalem, of course, has hun-
Jacob, of course, was actually in
love with Leah's sister, Rachel, dreds of activities including:
*A tour of the Givat
but was tricked into wedding her
Mordechai Firehouse (the east
older sister.
"In some real sense, Leah be- Jerusalem station features Tren-
comes Rachel during the night. kle, a fire engine that walks up-
That is the very nature of the stairs).
*The Magic Road in East Tal-
night, of the world of exile. Iden-
tities meld into one another, faces piot. Its odd geological configura-
and forms swirl in the dark, meet- tions make it seem as though
ing and splitting off, beckoning you're driving uphill when you're
really going down.
and mocking."
*The First Temple Model,
And discussing Esau's rela-
tionship with his family, she says, where you can don 3-D glasses to
"Until now (when he trades his see a model of Jerusalem.
*The Eyn Yael Living Muse-
birthright), Esau has presented
himself to his father in such a way um, an outdoor facility with arts-
that Isaac has been 'nurtured' by and-crafts and other fun projects
him, has received delight from (weaving, bread and cheese-bak-
him. That is, Esau has functioned ing, milking a cow) for children
in the world of seeming: He is a from preschool age to teens.
Kids Love Israel features more
good actor, whose force of being
arouses passion... Till now, Jacob than just what to do in Israel. It
might have said, like Hamlet, also includes a checklist of how to
`Seems? 1 know not seems.' He has get organized before you go, all
engaged in no 'action' — in the about food, places to stay and
sense that method actors use the ways to get around.
word, to denote the full intent of
n Making Peace with the
a particular scene, the desire and
PLO (Wes tview), David
struggle that underlie the mere
Makovsky gives an inside ac-
spoken word. Essentially, he has
count of how and why Yitzhak
not engaged with either his father
Rabin came to meet with Yassir
or his brother at all."
A native of England, Mrs. Zom- Arafat. Basing his report on in-
berg studied at the Gateshead terviews with Israeli, Palestinian,
seminary and Cambridge Uni- American and Egyptian leaders,
versity, from which she holds a he provides a portrait of the late
Rabin himself, as well as those
doctorate in English literature.
who helped shape the Oslo Ac-
i) tanning a trip with the chil- cord.
He also considers row such in-
dren to Israel? (Oooh, you
are brave!) There's a new cidents as Israel's 1992 deporta-
guide you'll want to take a tion of radical Islamics, and its
retaliation against Hezbollah
look at.
Kids Love Israel: Israel rocket attacks during the Gulf
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