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The Secret of Eternal Youth: A Tribute to Prof. Alice Shalvi
Insight Israel
Volume 4, Number 5
January 2004
On December 15, 2003, the International Board of Governors of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies held an evening of tribute to honor Prof. Alice Shalvi upon her stepping down as Chair of the Executive Committee after six years of intensive service to the Schechter Institute. Prof. David Golinkin, President of Schechter, made the following remarks at that beautiful event. – Linda Price
I shall begin with three stories:
A story is told of an elderly man who made a party for his children, grandchildren and relatives on his birthday every year, and every year he would reduce one year from his age. Once, at the annual party, his son-in-law stood up, held up his glass, and said:
“My dear father-in-law – how shall I bless you? If I say to you: May you be privileged to see children and grandchildren – you already have! That you should reach old age – you already have! Rather, may it be God’s will that you and we should rejoice together at your Bar Mitzvah! ” (1)
Rabbi Moshe Margalit, author of Pnay Moshe, the only commentary to the entire Talmud Yerushalmi, lived in Lithuania and many other countries in the 18th century. In 1779, he enrolled in the
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Evening (Paperback)
By Nessa Rapoport
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Two sisters, lost youth, and old obsessions—a “compassionate, lyrical portrait of grief, longing, and love” that unfolds over the course of one day as a Jewish family sits shiva (Refinery29).
Bohemian New Yorker Eve returns to her Toronto hometown to mourn the death of her more successful sister in this award-winning novel that’s “like a darker, sexier Little Women” (Forward).
In her 30s, Eve is summoned home by her distraught family to mourn the premature death of her sister, Tam—a return that becomes an unexpected encounter with the past. Eve bears the burden of a secret: Two weeks before Tam died, Eve and Tam argued so vehemently that they did not speak again. Her sister was famous, acclaimed for her career as a TV journalist and her devoted marriage. But Tam, too, had a secret, revealed the day after the funeral, one that inverts the story Eve has told herself since their childhood. In the aftermath, Eve is forced to revise her version of her fractured family, her sister’s accomplishments and vaunted marriage, and her own impeded ambition in work and love.
Day by day as the family sits shiva, the stories unf