1AONG H u4 FINE CHINESE DINING rwitos/ Toil/ (7-5o 'A wonderful adventure in fine dining" — Danny Raskin who moves to the landscape. Heavenly Heights from The novel also por- Baltimore with her trays the neighbors, husband, Mike, and including the soulful children. Appalachian-born Readers see this new Debra and the stories world from Tova's eyes, of how she and the following her bumpy others arrived in Israel adjustment to a world and their intercon- where arrogant appli- nected lives. ance "installators," Tova and Mike end head lice and guns left up on an extended stay in the synagogue foyer back in America when weren't part of her his father gets ill while dream. She wonders they are visiting. From whether she was "sup- there, they experience a posed to absorb into communal tragedy. Risa Miller presents an Israeli something or was it Miller, too, lived in Orthodox community with supposed to absorb Israel. With her hus- empathy and without satire or band and five children, into her." ambivalence. "I don't know of she made aliyah in Tova shifts from the any fi-um literary fiction that marriage wig she wore 1988, settling in in Baltimore to a head- likes itself" she says. Jerusalem. But in 1990, scarf, from teaching while back in Boston English to Russian immigrants to on what was meant to be a short vaca- studying Hebrew in a similar class. tion, her husband's back went out and With sensitivity and some humor, he had to be in bed for a year. Miller captures the cycles of the week "It was like Gilligan's Island, she and the holidays, with meal prepara- says, "when a 'three-hour tour' turned tions, mikvah visits, small acts of devo- into an extended stay." And, they are tion, weddings and special days like still here. Lag B'Omer, when Tova's family trav- "We lost our aliyah," she says, recall- els to Mount Meron for their child's ing their resettling in the United States first haircut. En route, they encounter as a time of trauma. They still think a tsitzit-wearing cowboy nudging his about returning, but now they have horse, "Mammela, boobela." God is grandchildren and aging parents in rarely mentioned, but the Divine pres- this country. ence is felt, in the kitchen and across HEAVEN'S DOOR on page 74 until the Oslo Accords were buried before looking for a publisher. The book is both exciting and scary, and those who really know what is going on in Israel and have gotten to know Israel from the inside will find Total Jihad a very good read. ADJUSTING SIGHTS by Haim Sabato (The Toby Press, $19.95 hardcover) Haim Sabato is an Egyptian-born Israeli who served in the tank corps in the Yom Kippur War and currently heads a yeshiva. When this book was pub- lished in Hebrew, it was a bestseller in Israel. Hillel Halkin, well-known journal- ist and translator, translated Sabato's book into English. The narrator of this "mem- oir" is Haim, an Egyptian-born Israeli who has been friends with Romanian- born Dov since Haim's arrival in Israel. The two young men went to school together at a religious high school and joined the army together. The book is primarily one 19-year- old man's long description of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 in the Golan Heights, his personal experiences as he and his best friend, Dov, serve with a tank battalion, and what happens to impact Haim's life. Reading it, we understand how being in the army in a war situation challenges the religious lifestyle of these modern Orthodox young men. In an interview, the author relates that he con- siders his book "art" rather than diary or journalism because he feels "art express- es precisely what another form of expression can't give voice to" — the "feelings and thoughts of a common soldier" who is religious and thus calls upon Jewish sources. 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