BOOK REVIEW: By light of hidden candles

In the (now far distant) past, I used to wolf down fiction books in one gulp. In fact, my addiction to quality fiction was one of the biggest challenges I had when my kids were very small, because I couldn’t put books down when I needed to, in order to give them the time and attention they needed.

When I moved to Israel and frummed-up, the fiction books got the heave-ho, along with a bunch of other things like movies and internet in my home, which I’d come to realize weren’t so good for my so...