Movies
The Grande 4-Plex’s “Documentary Days,” composed of three films each screening one week, begins today with Laurel Chiten’s beautiful and moving “The Jew in the Lotus.”
Sept. 3, 1998
Books
TERRA INFIRMA A Memoir of My Mother’s Life in Mine; By Rodger Kamenetz; Schocken Books; $18, 116 pp.
May 15, 1999
Religion: Author Rodger Kamenetz’s quest has taken him from Tibet to the bakeries and butcher shops of Fairfax.
Oct. 9, 1997
“The jewel in the lotus” is a metaphorical image evoked in certain Buddhist chants, but the phrase turns into a comic but faintly discordant pun in the title of Rodger Kamenetz’s book, “The Jew in the Lotus,” a bit of wordplay intended to conjure up a dramatic but sometimes disturbing encounter between Judaism and Buddhism.
April 2, 1995
Feb. 1, 1995
Generation Debt Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young Anya Kamenetz Riverhead Books: 270 pp., $23.95
March 13, 2006
From “The Lowercase Jew: Poems” by Rodger Kamenetz (Northwestern University Press: 76 pp., $12.95 paper)
Aug. 17, 2003
World & Nation
A small group of people stood off to the side of a road near Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon, staring at a column of flames from a derailed frieght train in the distance.
May 28, 2013
Baltimore freight train explosion caught on video
The Farther Shore A Novel Matthew Eck Milkweed Editions: 178 pp., $22 SIX soldiers are left behind enemy lines in a hostile city, the last battleground in a bloody war.
Oct. 21, 2007