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Candy in action
Eighteen-year-old Candy relies on her considerable Kung fu skills, quick wit, and good friends in a dangerous around-the-world adventure when a spurned suitor begins to stalk her every move.
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SHOMER NEGIAH IN THE CITY
IT WAS THE SUMMER I LEFT SAN FRANCISCO. I’D GOTTEN a book deal, gotten hardcore about this whole Orthodox thing, and hitched a ride with my best friend’s ex-girlfriend and her dog to New York City. Suddenly I lived in a city of gorgeous, untouchable Orthodox girls who knew more about Judaism than I even suspected there was to know, who never looked me in the eye, who lived in lavish penthouse apartments in neighborhoods where I couldn’t even afford to eat.
Over the course of the summer, I followed Yirmi and Benji, my Jewish socialite friends, to one-dollar drink
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Formal Punk
The songs on this album move from the klezmer-rock bombast of \"Lines & Hooks\" all the way to the pop of \"Make It Beautiful.\" Most of the songs on \"My Dear One\" are love songs, and it's impossible not to think of the band's personalities and politics when you listen. \"Miami\" is an ode not to the city, but to lost love: The Shondes' last tour ended abruptly in that city, after their erstwhile guitarist left the band. \"Gather Up Your Prayers\" might be a breakup song, or it might be a breakup song for God; it works as both. The Shondes' messages of social change and sexual identity are there - the band has performed at Palestinian-solidarity rallies and at gay and lesbian benefits - but they're subtly handled. The lyrics mostly use the universal \"you and I\" dichotomy, and the listeners' tendency to interpret as simply as possible sometimes shortcuts the implications, hearing generic love songs rather than specific stories. \"Miami,\" which starts off with [Louisa Solomon] angrily demanding, \"Did you leave me on Venice Beach?\" over rumbling drums, is about a very specific breakup, but - like all great songs it could be about anyone being abandoned, anywhere, They are a Jewish band, and they're playing klezmer modalities and time signatures, but you could not know any of that and still think the song you're listening to is the best song you've heard in years.
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A Children's Bible That Appeals More to Adults Than to Kids
Ellen Frankel, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, has labored for the better part of her career to make Jewish traditional texts more palatable to a general audience. The new \"JPS Illustrated Children's Bible\" - a hybrid of JPS's modern translation, along with Frankel's reinterpretations of words and phrases that were archaic, awkward or weird - is clean and 'precise. From the first sentence, it's clear we're reading a translation that's both old-school and vibrant: \"In the very beginning, God created a world the heavens and the earth - out of nothing. But this world was without rhyme or reason.\" In the greatest picture books, from illuminated manuscripts to \"Goodnight Moon,\" the art takes the story and one-ups it. Here, the design shouts a halfhearted \"amen.\" With JPS's innovation in other areas witness its recent comic version of \"Megillat Esther\" - it seems a shame that the \"Illustrated Children's Bible\" has lost sight of what really attracts kids.
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Inspired by Jazz, a Poet Does 'His Own Thing'
\"I've always been going this way,\" [Steve Dalachinsky] said, sitting on an upholstered sofa that barely could contain the two of us. The walls are filled, literally, ceiling to \"floor by records - actual vinyl albums, thin as paper, occupying the whole room. To say there must be thousands is a wild understatement. From another room, he pulls out files and files of chapbooks - small, short-run poetry books, assembled by photocopier and staples, made in editions of a few hundred. \"I just do my own thing,\" he said. \"I became devoutly aware that I was a Christ killer,\" he recalled. \"I always wanted to be in a club that didn't want me. I hung around with them, even though they didn't accept me - and when they did, I realized they weren't who I wanted them to be.\" When he speaks, more often than not he speaks in the voice of the Jews. \"People have been trying to screw us over forever,\" he said to me. \"We're different than all the other scumbags out there. We gave half the world its arts and culture. We've got Freud, Einstein, Marx... go back far enough, and we've got Jesus. Black people say they hate us, but they sing 'Go Down Moses.../\" He launched into a passably good verse of the gospel song \"Rivers of Babylon,\" then turned to me and asked, \"How was that?\"
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