CAROL MEYERS, Exodus (New Cambridge Bible Commentary; Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Pp. xxiv + 311. Paper $21.99. This book certainly fulfills the goal of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary "to elucidate the Hebrew ... Scriptures for a wide range of intellectually...

As a student, Canadian photographer D.R. Cowles was deeply inspired by a number of lectures by filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, who awoke in him a great interest to study history and philosophy, and to "... see what is really there and to record it...

"Is that Nell's?" a harried young man asked, standing on the north side of 14th Street near Eighth Avenue and pointing across the street at the awning of NA. Anticipating a fashion show that night, a fair number of low-grade scenesters were milling about in...

Sixty years after a dilapidated ship embarked on a landmark voyage that symbolized Jews' yearning for a homeland in Israel, some 300 Jewish passengers retraced its route from Europe to the Holy Land.The passengers left the Cypriot port of Larnaca late Wednesday and arrived Thursday...

The Jews who have survived pogroms and genocide will doubtless weather this vulgar affront as well. Still, individual Jews who find themselves stuck in Leon Uris' paper detention camp must surely regard QB VII as a rather gratuitous endurance test. Based on a libel suit that the author actually faced in England over a sentence in his third novel, Exodus, the book pits a Gentile Polish doctor, Adam Kelno, against a famous American Jewish novelist, Abe Cady. During World War II Dr. Kelno was forced to ...