So we had a few hours before our great neice’s bat mitzvah and I really wanted to see something good for a change.  The dumbing down of Israel television has been absolute as they try to make us feel happy while acknowledging the soldiers dying, the hostages abused, the displaced families trying to get through the week.  So we have ‘big brother,’ ‘dancing with the stars,’ etc.

The show we happened to fall upon is “night therapy” – and I was enthralled.  Joseph Swed is a personal favorite, so anything he would be in would be good for me, but the script is not only powerful but relevant.  It shows something about the society without dealing directly with the politics.  It just started …

check it out

and now, to the bat mitzvah