Do go see Flight of the Butterflies, and revel in small miracles. The standard-issue nature documentary can become a beatifically wonderful thing when the Omnimax Theatre works its magic. ) at what should be a very well-attended event. Louis Jewish Book Festival in a rare spring event, and stop by the Jewish Community Center today (Wednesday, April 10 12 Millstone Campus Dr. (Her assumed name, “Eishes Chayil,” means “woman of valor” in Yiddish, and makes a clear statement on her part about the ethics of whistleblowing.)
She is a brave woman, and Hush, in addition to being eye-opening, is a page-turning book for teens and adults alike.
The language of the book makes it clear that she’s an insider – her knowledge of, shall we say, certain marital rituals along with all manner of other customs could not but inflame certain quarters in the Hasidic communities of Brooklyn, not least because she has been one of them, and she has gone public with a shonda (Yiddish for shame) that has caused much concern in recent years, and not just in cloistered Jewish neighborhoods. Her fact-based account of an insular community conspiring to cover up a sex crime was sufficiently controversial that she felt she had to publish it under an assumed name. Hush by Eishes Chayil is a young-adult book that has quietly polarized the religious Jewish sects of New York.
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