Tag: Books
Sami Rohr Prize and National Library of Israel jump-start new literary endeavor
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Library of Israel have announced a new collaboration to promote their shared vision to further cultivate a vibrant international Jewish literary culture and community.
The Sami Rohr...
Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’
The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Tennessee is criticizing a local school board’s decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust book from its eighth-grade curriculum.
The federation’s executive director, Michael Dzik, spoke about the...
Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’
A school board in Tennessee unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Holocaust from its schools because it includes eight minor curse words such as “damn” and an illustration of a...
‘Heroes of Liberty’ series pushes back against ‘woke ideology’ in children’s literature
Heroes of Liberty, a newly released book series for children, teaches values such as liberty and freedom amid what conservative columnist and commentator Bethany Mandel labels as a plague of “woke ideology” that is...
Report: UAE textbooks encourage coexistence, yet Israel still not on school maps
Textbooks in the United Arab Emirates promote peace and normalization with Jews and Israel; however, the Jewish state is still not on school maps, according to new research released by an Israeli watchdog group.
The...
Amazon denounced for selling, streaming original Nazi-propaganda films
Americans Against Anti-Semitism has asked Amazon to remove from its platform more than 30 Nazi propaganda films that are available for purchase and streaming.
Israel Bitton, the watchdog group’s executive director, wrote an open letter to the...
Historical Novel Tells of 19th Century Yemenite Jews
The pomegranate pendant of the title was fashioned in gold as a wedding gift for Mazal, a fourteen-year-old Yemenite girl who is the narrator of the book. The events she recounts begin in the...
Holocaust Association sends educational books to prisons in Arizona
The Phoenix Holocaust Association (PHA) has donated hundreds of books about the Holocaust and other genocides to prisons across Arizona.
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry thanked PHA for the books in a Twitter post last month,...
In era of social acrimony, the Rebbe’s words and wisdom provide insight into bridging...
Chabad may be synonymous with Jewish outreach, but once a year, for three days, the movement reaches in.
The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim) usually draws as many as 6,000 rabbis and lay...
Amazon pockets royalties from book by far-right leader who questions Holocaust
Amazon is making up to 85 percent profit on sales of a book by the leader of a British far-right group who wrote about the “alleged extermination of 6 million Jews” in the Holocaust,...