Rereading Leon Uris’s ‘Exodus’
A conversation over the breakfast table with friends started with the question, “What book do you wish you had not read so you could read it for the first time?”
We pushed the concept to...
Friendship between Basques and Jews fuels novel
While the Basque people of Vitoria, Spain, were Christians, like the Jews, they were outsiders, not quite like the other Christians of Castile or other parts of newly united Spain. So, when King Ferdinand...
Frida Kahlo Loved Jews So Much She Invented Jewish Ancestry
Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5, Chapter 19, Exit 14B (Cesar Chavez Parkway); Chicano Park
Turn left at Cesar Chavez Parkway exit, and murals will be at left side under the overpass. One of the...
Prof. Jack Jacobs discusses “Jews and the Left”
JEWS AND THE LEFT RECONSIDERED
Thursday, June 22 | 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Lecture and Book Launch
In the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, Jews held highly visible positions in a...
“Who will write our history”, by Samuel Kassow
The Germans killed the people, the Russians the intellectuals and the others killed our memory wanting to make us believe that we died like sheep when the reality is exactly the opposite; the Jews...
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki
A new book, “The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ” (Aquila Polonica: 2012), documents, in his own words, Pilecki’s remarkable exploits, and I can’t think of a better gift to give yourself for Khanukah.
Pilecki was...
The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games, by Ron Kaplan
While as a whole the Jewish people are often typecast as a cerebral people, more interested in academic pursuits than in physical prowess, Jews have at the same time held a deep love affair...
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland, By Bernard...
Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist- and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile...
When hippies invented their own Judaism
Take yourself back to the 1960s and 1970s when Jewish hippies envisioned creating their own brand of Judaism. Kosher food mixed with marijuana. Come as you are davening with cushions in a circle, instead...
What a Jewish teacher learns in United Arab Emirates
A Jewish American working in the United Arab Emirates fears hostility but finds humanity in this debut memoir.
Fleeing divorce and midlife crisis, journalist Eden left Ohio in 2008 to take a teaching job at the...