Book Review: ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’
Try to picture the words in this book’s title: “Giraffes on Horseback Salad.” Can you picture it? A giraffe astride a horse; two legs on one side of the horse’s midsection, two legs on...
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s latest book examines ‘America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World’
From fighting for human rights to advocating for the Kurds and their desire for a homeland, Bernard-Henri Lévy, 70, has sounded the alarm on contemporary issues and issued warnings about the decline on the...
Book Review: ‘kaddish.com’ by Nathan Englander
As a young man, Larry, bridles at having to sit shiva for his father and absolutely refuses to say kaddish for him for the year after his death. Instead, he arranged for someone in Jerusalem, whom...
What Elie Wiesel taught his students
Witness: Lesson’s from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York © 2018, ISBN 9781328802699.
Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, perhaps best known for his memoir Night, and...
Book Review: ‘No Forgotten Fronts’
During World War II, many people turned to The Washington Post for their news. On the other hand, G.I.’s who were former San Diego State College students turned to Prof. Lauren C. Post.
“Doc” Post, a professor of geography...
‘Berrie’ exciting! A story based on Israel’s launching a spacecraft to the moon
What do you get when you toss in a bit of “Toy Story,” The Little Engine That Could and The Magic School Bus book series? An optimistic (and very blue) “Berrie,” a spacecraft with her eyes set on...
Book Review: Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel by Yotav Eliach
For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel....
Yiddish Glossary for Goyim: The Power Shmoozer’s Guide to Hollywood
In the era of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, movie moguls tended to spice their jargon with expressions from the colorful vernacular of their pushcart-peddling forebears. The euphony of Yiddish is a tradition...
Middle East book review: ‘Why Are We Still Afraid?’
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...
Survivor’s son tracks down his father’s WWII story
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,...