Tag: Books
New memoir by friend of Dylan’s reveals details about musician’s Jewish roots
A new memoir written by Bob Dylan’s best friend gives readers a glimpse into parts of the music icon’s Jewish side that have previously fallen under the radar.
In Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures (written...
Amid backlash, library in Highland Park, NJ, postpones reading of ‘P Is for Palestine’
In response to pushback from the local Jewish community, the public library in Highland Park, N.J., has postponed a picture-book author event with Golbarg Bashi, author of P Is for Palestine.
“Due to extraordinary public response about...
Book review: ‘The Limits of the World’
Immigrants from India found themselves distrusted by both sides of the racial divide in colonial Kenya. As far as black Africans were concerned, the brown-skinned Asians were part of the ruling class, and as...
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...
Book Review: Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel by Yotav Eliach
For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel....
Opening up the world of audiobooks to kids with learning disabilities
Rashi Kuhr says that it would always take him a long time to read a book. But Kuhr, a 46-year-old immigrant to Israel from the United States who was born with a learning disability,...
The Cantankerous Pre-History of America’s Jews
The conventional narrative of Jewish America begins in the 1880s, with the massive influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York and other cities. Their descendants indeed make up the majority of today’s...
In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine by Gershon Baskin
The Indefatigable Peace Mediator
Many are those who have tried to mediate between Israelis and Palestinians in their over 150-year-old conflict. Considerably fewer are those who can point to concrete achievements, in addition to being...
“Jewish South Florida”-a history and guide to everything Jewish, by Paul Kaplan
Beyond the stereotype of elderly Jews visiting sunny beaches and stopping in at New York-style delis lies a rich history and Jewish cultural tradition. The area is populated by Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews with...
Viewing Israel’s many facets through a jeweler’s lens
“I wanted to write about all generations, one century, several families and cities,” says Israeli author Moshe Sakal, describing the ambitious initial outline for his novel, “The Diamond Setter,” a work that took him six...