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Why ‘beach reading’ is a joke on Jews like me - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL, JUL 24 – Iddo Gefen’s novel offers a rare literary escape from Israel’s crisis, highlighting the tension between leisure and ongoing conflict affecting Jewish communities.

I’m reading a new novel by an Israeli author that has nothing to do with the war in Gaza, or any current crisis for that matter.  I can’t tell if I feel relieved or guilty. With a world in turmoil, how much permission can I give myself to tune out — if tuning out is even possible? Iddo Gefen’s “Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory” is set in a village on the lip of a crater deep in the Negev Desert — far from the bright lights of Tel Aviv and even Be…

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency broke the news in on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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