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Israel's rifts revealed in strong 'Holy Land'

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From: Cleveland Jewish News
Date: 20031114
Author:Karfeld, Marilyn H.

Karfeld, Marilyn H.
Cleveland Jewish News
11-14-2003
Mendy, a sheltered yeshiva student living with his fervently religious
parents in Bnei Brak, outside Tel Aviv, is so distracted by his sexual
urges that he's neglecting his studies. Instead of the Torah, he's reading
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. His rabbi, citing an obscure talmudic passage,
advises him to visit a harlot to "get it out of his system."

But the plan backfires. At the Love Boat, a sleazy strip joint in Tel Aviv,
Mendy falls in love with Sasha, a beautiful, world-weary 19-year-old
Ukrainian prostitute, both a victim and a victimizer ...

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