A Detailed History of the Campaign to Free Soviet Jews
Future historians will consider this book a great find as it details over 20 years of protest, militancy, press releases, controversy, speeches, victories, and defeats in the campaign by secular American Jews to win...
Book Puts the ‘Land’ in the Land of Israel
Anyone perusing the table of contents of Essentials of the Land of Israel by Brandon Marlon, a prolific, award-winning Canadian-Israeli author, would correctly conclude the book’s value lies in its treatment of the country’s geography. Yet, Essentials...
Author’s Vivid Accounts Range From Nazi Death Camps to Boston’s Worst Neighborhoods
From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation, by Steve Ross, is truly an inspiring story. Interspersed with the author’s vivid recollections of being incarcerated...
Did you miss the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration this past Tuesday?
View it now online now
This year we were officially back live, in person, and under the open skies at the stone in Riverside Park. As we promised, we got good video of it, so...
Book for Toddlers Tells of the Lights of Shabbat
This tale for tots conflates the light of Shabbat candles with other pleasant and helpful lights that they might encounter. These include a flashlight helping people to find their way; lanterns at an evening...
Factual Errors Detract from Jewish Family Saga
This is a novel that traces a Jewish family through several generations from a shtetl in Poland to the big city of Warsaw, and later onward to Scotland, Germany, and England over the course...
UAE publishes book on Zionism written by Tel Aviv University researchers
For the first time since the signing of the Abraham Accords, an Israeli research book has been published in Abu Dhabi, announced Tel Aviv University.
The UAE’s largest public research institute—the Emirates Center for Strategic...
One-Legged Mongoose
A New York Jewish Memoir
“Marc Straus has written an astonishing memoir full of humor and hilarity, heart and vision. This year’s sleeper hit, I predict. A must-read!” —Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and Lit
“…how a sometimes...
Love and Foreign Travel Share This Novel with the Occult
When the man and woman drawn to each other are both septuagenarians you know this will not be the usual type of love story, although a love story it is.
Roger and Frannie had been...
‘Jewish Bestiary’ Unpacks the Actual and Mystical Roles Animals Play in Our Lives
Close contact between animals and humans, according to the Hebrew Bible, happened soon after creation: God brought them before Adam to assign permanent names, and later, Eve encountered and conversed with the infamous snake....