Books

This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli society.  Towards the end of this...

Released for publication on Jan. 19, this book is a combination memoir and biography; a memoir by son Jack J. Hersch of his painstaking efforts to visualize and reconstruct the experiences of his father,...

I picked this book up as its title is very similar to a novel of mine (both quoting Hamlet) and its subtitle describes a path very similar to the one taken by my late...

One of the biggest media personalities who passed away in 2018 was Jewish conservative intellectual and pundit Charles Krauthammer. Shortly before his death, he instructed his son, Daniel, to finish his second book that, like his...

The letters BDS, an acronym for the words boycott, divestment, and sanctions, is a movement encouraging individuals, corporations, states, and countries to economically, politically, and socially isolate Israel until, for example, Israel withdraws from...

With immigration a hot topic heard on the news, this book personalizing the experience of our own Jewish ancestors immigrating from Eastern Europe to the United States via Ellis Island could not be more...

This novel, the first of a quartet, has become an international bestseller and has been widely praised in literary circles. So I was overjoyed when I was able to pick up a copy someone...

At 96, Fanny Krasner Lebovits is still going strong.  I saw her as recently as December 2nd in attendance at a regional meeting of her beloved Hadassah, an organization to which she has devoted...

We begin with a scene from 60 Minutes: footage of a young woman lying on the ground being attended to by medical personnel alongside a scorched Israeli bus. This haunting scene is followed by Leslie...

If one theme predominates throughout former First Lady Michelle Obama’s memoir, it is that, notwithstanding the fact that she and her husband had risen to the very pinnacle of power and prestige in the...