Famous Israelis team with wounded combat vets to bring PTSD out in the open
Sixty of Israel’s leading politicians, entrepreneurs and social activists teamed up with injured Israeli combat veterans and for a special photographic exhibition, opening Thursday night in New York City. The project features participation from Israeli...
Book Review: ‘An Unorthodox Match’
An Unorthodox Match by Naomi Ragen, St. Martin’s Press © 2019, ISBN 9781250-161222; 322 pages plus acknowledgments and glossary; $27.99
I once had a rabbi who inveighed against religious hypocrisy with this saying: “Big beard, small...
Author Tells How to Recognize and Treat Addiction
In a recent reading of the Scott Silverman book The Opioid Epidemic, this reader found the title a bit misleading. Rather than a book about the opioid epidemic the book was more a primer on...
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America, by...
For Steven Ross, an acclaimed American historian of labour and the film industry whose parents both survived the Holocaust, this remarkable and meticulously researched book is personal. Initially seeking to understand Jewish passivity during...
Documentary: Jewish Refugees Return To Fight Hitler
The 2020 documentary About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Armed Forces, streaming on Amazon, documents the thought-provoking WWII story of young Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis. They...
Book Review: ‘Radical Inclusion’
If I understand author Edmund Case’s basic premise, it is if people “do Jewish,” then for all practical purposes, they are members of the Jewish community and ought to be recognized and treated as...
The Hidden Passion and Joy of Psalms Described by Two Rabbis
Duets on Psalms: Drawing New Meaning From Ancient Words, Jack Riemer and Elie Spitz, Ben Yehuda Press, Teaneck, NJ, ©2023, ISBN 978-1-953829-62-7, p. 222, plus endnotes, $24.95.
There is a story told of a southern...
Young Adult Novel Deals With Miscegenation, Dysgraphia, Antisemitism
This is a story for Young Adults set in the turbulent 1960s, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down anti-miscegenation laws in 16 states via its decision in Loving v. Virginia.
Leah, a recent...
Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers,...
Jews have long been known as the people of the book, but fresh evidence has emerged that they’re also the people of the letter.
Of the millions of Jews who were taken to their deaths...
‘Holocaust by Bullets’ exhibit presents evidence of mass shootings
The "Holocaust By Bullets" exhibit that showcases historical evidence of Jews being massacred in open pits is running now through Dec. 17 at the Alvin Sherman Library of Nova Southeastern University in Davie.
Over 200...