Tag: Books
Mimi’s Ark: Showing Love for Ramona’s Wildlife
Throughout his life, Roy Toft has always had an affinity for animals. This amiable Ramona photographer, now in his early 60’s, has had many adventures, photographing wildlife and leading tours around the world. He...
‘Perfect time’ to return to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ on 120th Bloomsday
Cultural pilgrims flock to Dublin annually on June 16 to celebrate the inside-baseball, literary “holiday” Bloomsday, which marks the single day upon which James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses is set.
“Hands up how many people have read...
Behold the 21st-century boycott
Ha’aretz published a long and important article on April 12 that described an “unprecedented global boycott of Israeli academics.” Their report is based on a survey conducted in January by the Israel Young Academy, in which...
Harvard dean has a new book with a convicted terrorist murderer
Many Americans are shocked at the extreme level of anti-Jewish hate that has been revealed to exist at Harvard University and other elite schools since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.
It seems...
Largest Jewish publisher gets its own ZIP code
Until now, Kehot Publication Society—the Jewish publishing house with the largest active catalog—has had their warehouses, distribution centers and administrative offices scattered across the tri-state area.
Now, with the recent acquisition of a 100,000-square-foot facility...
Throughout her career, novelist Charlotte Brontë drew on ‘Book of Esther’
The 19th-century English novelist Charlotte Brontë is best known for her 1847 novel Jane Eyre, which is a staple of many U.S. middle and high school curricula. A new journal article addresses a different side...
Mitch Albom’s new Holocaust novel is about ‘price we pay for the lies we...
On a visit to Yad Vashem 10 years ago, Mitch Albom, the sports journalist turned inspirational book author, was struck by a story that emerged from one of the video displays.
“A woman was saying...
Siberian Exile by Julija Sukys
By the end of the Holocaust, Lithuania suffered one of the highest percentages of Jewish deaths in all of Europe. Before the war, 168, 000 Jews lived there, of which 83 per cent were...
Anti-Zionism on Campus
The demonization and delegitimization of Israel and bigotry directed toward Jewish faculty, staff, and students is increasing at dramatic rates on university and college campuses.
In these supposedly intellectual spaces, virulently anti-Israel “scholars” and student-activists connected to,...
Hanukkah lockdown? Grab a hold of good reads for all ages
As Jews are often referred to as people of the book, it’s no wonder readers top the Hanukkah gift list. Luckily, a whole host of new and recent books have been released from authors...