Miriam Mogilevsky

For Joel Chasnoff, a native of the Chicago suburbs, serving in the Israeli Army seemed like a good way to give back to the Jewish state. What followed was a year of inspiration, disillusionment, danger and revelation. Miriam Mogilevsky reviews Chasnoff’s “The 188th Crybaby Brigade.”

Pondering life, death and God in “A Serious Man”

The success of the Shoah movie and what “Inglorious Basterds” is doing to it