Book review
'My Other Half': Sex, drugs, rock & roll, philosophy, and cynicism - book review
In My Other Half, the hero, Jake, eventually meets an unexpected fate in Jerusalem. Until then, he embarks on a hilarious series of decadent misadventures, some of which appear below.
'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review
'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review
'The Jewish March of Folly': Vindicating Zionism while warning the Jewish People - review
'Returning': Exploring assimilation and the search for Jewish belonging - review
A multigenerational story of assimilation and the search for Jewish belonging.
'The Sacrificial Service': Leviticus has been mistranslated for centuries - review
The book grew out of courses the author taught, and covers Leviticus’ chapters 1 through 10.
'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review
From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.
'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review
Introduction to the Zohar explores exile, desire, and repair, presenting the Baal HaSulam’s ladder as a path to inner spiritual transformation.
Inside Israel’s secret operation to turn Hezbollah’s beepers into bombs - exclusive
MILITARY AFFAIRS: Insider 'Adam Feyn' reveals stunning details of Mossad’s “beepers” operation against Hezbollah in his new book, explaining the strategy and high-stakes decisions behind the mission.
Inside Jerusalem’s 1948 siege through the eyes of a child who survived the Old City’s fall
In her book ‘Forever My Jerusalem,’ Shteiner recalls life in the Old City before its fall in 1948 and the emotional return decades later.
'All Afternoon': Feminism comes to River Ridge - book review
Kleinman notes in her novel 'All Afternoon,' set in 1978, that feminism was “slow in coming” to the fictional New Jersey town of River Ridge.
Berliners are coming to terms with their past - book review
The 'desire to look away, to pretend ignorance, to be wilfully oblivious, must have been the norm.'
New books by Jewish authors revisit the rules of protest in a polarized era - opinion
A new mini-genre of “how-to” books about dissent and activism has emerged, drawing lessons from past protests.
'The Handover': The ABCs of nursing, with a Jewish twist - reivew
Author Tilda Shalof reflects on her decades of hospital-based work in Canada, and how Jewish humor and its paradoxical mix of tragedy and comedy mirrors a shift nurse’s daily experience.
