An Israeli-born woman writes one letter per year from America during Rosh Hashanah to a group of women who were her classmates in Israel. ...
If Nachman is at all classifiable, he is an unwitting modernist, his enigmatic tales less historical relics than astonishingly prescient works. ...
What does it say about antisemitism in America that its most violent outrage is not widely remembered, caused no deaths and had some consequences that were arguably positive? ...
Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton explain the basics of Israel and Judaism to students, but should the target audience be exclusively Jewish? ...
Sip it slowly, and live or relive this golden age—an era giddy with hope, a time of light. ...
Jewish themes are central to the fictional works of Gábor T. Szántó, whose latest book is "1945 and Other Stories." ...
Is it possible to be evenhanded in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Hamas war? ...
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions. ...
“It is clearly not a flawless book, but it is definitely a good read.” ...
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right. ...
Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham. ...
Families, cities and planets are “atomized,” seemingly beyond redemption, in this hellscape of a novel. ...