Books

This year, 2023, was declared in Lodz, Poland, to be the year of Chava Rosenfarb, one of its most famous Yiddish writers. In Lethbridge, Canada, meanwhile Goldie Morgentaler, daughter and translator of Rosenfarb from...

While Shabbat comes every week and never ceases to bring Jewish families rest across the globe, it’s always exciting to be told that Friday nights could gain a new spice and flavor. This is...

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...

In the book “Miriam’s Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World” (1988), edited by Prof. Howard Schwartz, Miriam’s drum had magical abilities. Taken from a 19th-century Eastern European folktale, Schwartz writes that the music...

Prior to 2018, Daniel Aschheim’s most extensive diplomatic experience was serving for five years as a concierge at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “There are very few jobs out there where you can speak...

While sorting through and getting rid of books in order to accommodate a new item of furniture I came across “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait,” which I had given to my father for his birthday in...

SAN DIEGO – When I was a student at UCLA in the 1960s, one of the most pressing concerns was where to park. Many students commuted from their homes elsewhere in Los Angeles, but...

This novel traces the lives of the Feldman family as they build a nationally successful shoe store chain, but at a terrible price. Max, the founder of the chain, is ruthless in his business practices...

SAN DIEGO — This book tells an amazing, true story about the Judean date palm that was thought to be extinct but was brought back to life thanks to two women scientists. Six seeds were...

Wherefore is this Haggadah diff’rent from all oth’r Haggadahs? Author Martin Bodek, the writer of the Emoji Haggadah, Festivus Haggadah and Coronavirus Haggadah, has released another version of the Passover story, translated fully into Elizabethan English. Author Martin Bodek....