Rabbi Riskin’s new book portrays Judaism as a love story
What keeps the Jewish people going? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the charismatic and eloquent Brooklyn, N.Y.-born educator who became a moderate voice of Modern Orthodoxy in Israel, provides an inspirational answer in his new book, Judaism:...
Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English
When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them.
One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made it his life’s mission to...
New book advocates for rights of Jewish children
B’nai B’rith Portugal, in partnership with the London-based International Observatory of Human Rights, has released a bilingual book titled "The Universal Rights of Children." The publication, released in time for both the Jewish holiday of...
“The Mystery of the Missing Pitom”, by Beverly Mach Geller
After Yosef, his brothers and father built their sukah, they went to buy a lulav and etrog. Yosef is fascinated by its fragrance and can’t wait until the holiday arrives to smell it again....
The Joys of Jewish Preserving: Modern Recipes with Traditional Roots, for Jams, Pickles, Fruit...
Food preservation, a necessity before the advent of modern refrigeration, is popular again. The slow food movement, which stresses the use of locally grown food prepared with minimal processing, is a factor. The Jewish...
Cosmic wonder: Reclaiming science’s place in Jewish life
As the James Webb Space Telescope sends back unprecedented images of galaxy formation from the dawn of time, humanity stands in awe of the cosmos like never before. This marvel of engineering—requiring more than...
Jewish Historians of England
Twenty Years On, Views and Reviews of Modern Britain by Peter Stansky; Pinehill Humanities Press, 2020.
Peter Stansky born in Manhattan, graduated from Yale, Harvard, and King’s College, Cambridge where he earned his doctorate studying...
Frances Perkins, Nation’s First ‘Madam Secretary’ Tried to Help European Jewish Refugees
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany by Rebecca Brenner Graham; New York: Citadel Press Books imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp.; © 2025; ISBN 9780806-543178; 280 pages...
The Holiness of Sex: Leonard Cohen’s Biblical Theology
On hearing that I had recently written a book about Leonard Cohen, someone asked me why I thought Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature rather than Cohen. Not being a Nobel prize adjudicator...
The Pessin Affair
Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College. Richard Landes. Published by Academic Studies Press, 2020. 32.95 pp.218
At Connecticut College, in the Spring of 2015, Andrew...