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Text Box: Recommended Movies (not just Israel-related) Ushpizin (Sacred Guest): A movie set in a Hasidic community in Jerusalem. A couple’s experiences of being tested through unfulfilled hopes. A moving portrayal of prayer and personal miracles, as well as insight into Breslov Hassidic culture in Jerusalem. Hebrew with subtitles. Down with Love: A movie that had Mark and me laughing for days; we watched it several more times and laughed some more. Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Laura Paulson. I really don’t know if you’re the kind of person who’d like this, but I’m curious... Bella Good Night, and Good Luck Sorry, not very up-to-date here… Text Box: Learning Hebrew Alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet http://www.inrebus.com/hebrewalphabetgame.php Lots of links: http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-hebrew.htm Learn Hebrew prayers & chants: http://www.virtualcantor.com/ For Christians: http://www.hebrew4christians.net/index.html Text Box: Books Recommended by Gillian From Lebanon to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman (198-): Pulitzer-prize winning journalist lives through the Lebanon War and then transfers to Jerusalem. Explains the events, and the various perspectives held by the conflicting parties, those caught in the middle and how the world perceives things in the “Holy Land.” Tuesdays with Morry by Mitch Albom: Lessons a young man learns from his favorite professor after hours who, as his shell of a body crumbles way, grows younger in spirit and shares what he is learning about life through his process of dying. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig: Explores and challenges the philosophical divide between “classical” and “romantic” ways of knowing through the recounting of a man’s motorcycle journey to rediscover and redeem his lost self. The story has a good atmosphere and can raise one’s understanding of how one thinks about the world. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz: Life memoirs of a man who grew up in Israel, through the birth of the state and the various wars and changes up to the 2000’s. A story of how it was growing up in his Russian Jewish family in Jerusalem, experiencing the pain of his mother’s sickness and death, cultural changes across generations of immigrants and native-born Israeli youth, developing a self identity and a writing vocation. Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire and There are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith: An award-winning teacher in L.A. shares his philosophy, advice, and methods which have resulted in his fifth grade students being helped to become extraordinary people and extraordinary students, despite the problems of the public school system. Well-written, honest, funny, candid and both idealistic and realistic. Dreams From My Father by Barak Obama: 1948 by…? On Israel’s War of Independence Text Box: Copyright Mark and Gillian Grambo: This page last updated June 21, 2011