Last Saturday night, the “Amateurs of the Hebrew Stage” in Jerusalem staged Molière’s comedy Harpagon [The Miser].1 A large and diverse audience of Jerusalemites filled the hall. It would seem that…
Sky, have mercy on me!
If there be in you a God and to that God a path
and I have not found it—
you pray for me!
I—my heart’s dead and there’s no prayer left in my mouth
and no strength and no hope…
To the editorial board of Ha-Nir, greetings.For some time, I have wanted to tell our honorable writers what a simple householder [ba‘al ha-bayit] like me wants from our literature.By using the term si…