Halkin

While Hillel Halkin, as usual, has done a masterful job translating your

The Passion Play of Death by Todd Hasak-Lowy 2010

Barry Halkin The Franklin apartment building in Philadelphia, with its ornate lobby, was sold quickly to a venture.

Stealth Buyers Win Prize Robbie Whelan 2011

Barry Halkin The Franklin apartment building in Philadelphia, with its ornate lobby, was sold quickly to a venture.

Stealth Buyers Win Prize Robbie Whelan 2011

As Halkin writes, the story has little chance of being true--it was published more than four centuries after the event it purports to describe--but it does seem to tell us, if not how Halevi died, how he should have died. . .

Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010

She was born to Louis and Mary (Halkin) Wiener on November 13, 1927, in New York City.

Naomi W. Cohen. 2009

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In the 1970s, Halkin says, he took his daughter to visit Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, where women go to pray.

Potemkin Prayer 2008

Sun columnist Hillel Halkin recalls a long conversation that occurred "late one afternoon in the mid-1990s," in which Lipsky -- then editor of the Forward, a Jewish weekly -- outlined for Halkin his idea of "a high-quality, intellectual, daily New York newspaper with conservative views that would compete successfully with the New York Times."

New York Sunset 2008

Halkin plans to return to India in February with a team of Israeli and American doctors who will conduct genetic tests on the Bnei Menashe to determine scientifically if their ancestors hail from ancient Palestine.

Periscope 2007

But on his third trip to the Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, Halkin was shown texts that convinced him that the community, which calls itself the Bnei Menashe, has roots in the lost tribe of Menashe.

Periscope 2007