"Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer, the son of Pinchas Mendel Singer and Bathsheba Zylberman, was born in 1904 in the Polish village of Leoncin. His father, an impoverished Hasidic Rabbi, proudly claimed to be a...

Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Based on Singer's short story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," it centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father. When he dies,...

ANOTHER LONG-AWAITED, multimillion-dollar venture proves, contrariwise, to be totally despicable. Yentl, unsteadily based on I. B. Singer's colorful tale, is a project Barbra Streisand has been hatching for some 15 years; the result is a monstrous rubber pterodactyl, inflated with an egomania more...

THE CURRENT issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains two articles that demonstrate statistically that women receive far less aggressive treatment for heart disease than men. They are less likely to undergo diagnostic and therapeutic procedures like cardiac catheterization, balloon angioplasty and...

Long before Sierra Boggess became a mermaid, she was a rather less adorable sea creature.It was back when she was just a teen, performing dozens of short educational skits a day during a summer job in Denver. Where exactly was that gig? An aquarium."I was...