Book review

A descendant of hassidim and Zionist activists, Cockerell writes compellingly about our people’s wanderings, the need for a Jewish homeland, and her family’s fight to create it.

"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than a Shi’ite one."

As Edna Ferber’s popularity has waned over the years, Julie Gilbert hopes to reintroduce the first Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner and “put her at the center of 20th-century women writers.”

Each of its nine chapters includes source material from biblical verses, Talmudic discussions, and classical and contemporary responsa, in Hebrew/Aramaic and English, presented chronologically. 

"The problem, Harari argues, is not necessarily information itself. The problem is perhaps that we have been asking the wrong questions."

The book, clearly written for a very narrow audience of Jewish fans – many have seen several hundred shows – details every possible point of connection between Phish and Judaism.

A new book by famed architect and former Jerusalemite David Kroyanker shines a penetrative loving light on the capital’s fading beauty.

Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.

"This Is Not a Cholent" contributes to the history and legacy of these refugees and these communities’ cultural and emotional experiences. 

Ziv Koren’s The October 7 War is heavy to pick up and hard to put down. This is not a classic coffee table photography book but it is of lasting importance.