Great art retains its appeal through time. This is true even with works created for children – including cartoons such as The Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Barking Fox just completed the annual Torah Cycle and is ready to embark on another year of Bible commentary. Rather than embark on another
וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה Even superheroes have their weaknesses. If it were not so, the stories about them would be over very quickly and would not be
הַאְַזִינוּ The one element of Steven Spielberg’s movies which has remained just beneath my consciousness for nearly thirty years is not his stunning cinematography or
נִצָּבִים The worst fate a person can endure? That would be loss of self. It is not the same as selflessness, a desirable state of
כִּי־תָבִוֹא When General Lew Wallace published Ben Hur in 1880, he had no idea that his tale of a wrongfully condemned Jewish prince would have
כִּי־תֵצֵא As with all good spy stories, the 1968 movie adaptation of Alistair MacLean’s Ice Station Zebra does not reveal the full truth until near
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דְּבָרִים One wonders whether Lewis Carroll required chemical substances to help him create the absurd worlds of his literature. Readers of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
מַּטּוֹת / מַסְעֵי William Shakespeare has such as way with murder. With so many characters meeting violent death in his plays it would seem that