Superman: The Mighty Analog
The answer to the question, “Is Superman circumcised?” in literature probably would depend on what the custom might have been on Krypton concerning the ceremony we Jews know as brit milah. Such an operation would have...
Investigative reporting ‘almost impossible’ in modern work culture, journalist Edward Jay Epstein says
Investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein has spent time over the decades with spies, international criminals, globe-trotting billionaires and world leaders, including former President Richard Nixon and U.S. statesman Henry Kissinger. He has penned more...
Book chronicles 4,000 years of Jewish leaders
Essentials of Jewish History: Jewish Leadership Across 4,000 years, Brandon Marlon, Vallentine Mitchell, London © 2020, ISBN 978-1-912676-18-7, p. 514 plus bibliography and index, $89.95.
Jewish presence across the last four thousand years of recorded...
An Entire Book in 12 Words
Can you imagine an entire book in 12 words, not including the title?
That last sentence took one more word than that.
Yet a 12-word book was the successful collaboration of author Tammar Stein and artist...
Two children’s books for Jewish holidays
Author Sandra Feder notes that Judaism acknowledges a duality in life: with the bitter often will come the sweet, and vice versa. “Sweet wine or grape juice is used to welcome Shabbat on Friday...
A talk with God about the Holocaust
For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. His parents somehow survived the German Nazi onslaught...
Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy, by Prof. Louis René Beres
This timely and original scholarly book critically examines Israel’s rapidly evolving nuclear strategy, a subject with which the author has been authoritatively acquainted for many years. Now facing an unprecedented configuration of existential threats,...
Holocaust survivors remember childhood traumas
Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children, edited by Keith Shackleton, illustrated by Zane Whittingham; Sourcebooks, © 2019; ISBN pending, 96 pages.
This set of six memoirs, illustrated cartoon style, is intended...
Observing, Reading, and Kvelling Over Grandchildren
I am what some people call a “compulsive reader.” If it is printed, and in front of me, I will read it. Flyers. Cereal boxes. Newspapers. Blogs. And most of all, books, books, and...
The Sephardic Children’s Haggadah Shel Pesach Large Gift Edition
Watch the Seder come to life for you and your child with The Hidary Family Edition of The Sephardic Children's Haggadah.
This Haggadah teaches the child, as well as the adult, all the seder preparations,...