In Hebrew, we use the word “tragedia” to describe drama like Antigone, based on human suffering.
In front of the burial society rabbi (Howard Metz) and her sister (Devorah Jaffe), the bereaved daughter (Avital Macales) angrily tears up a cemetery map showing the proposed location of her mother’s grave in a non-Jewish area.(photo credit: KAREN FELDMAN)ByBARBARA SOFER
