We feel acutely the longing for connection and continuity along the generations, the questions around the “right” way to honor the dead, fast on Yom Kippur, navigate Christmas or organize a seder or a bris. ...
Caesar’s wild facial expressions and powerful physicality dominated the small screen for only a few years. ...
With an open race for the White House awaiting us in 2028, how will the new wave of campaign autobiographies fit into this mixed stack of self-examiners and self-promoters? ...
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry Princeton University Press, 368 pp. Each year
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Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice By Gregory S. Gordon University of Virginia Press, 520
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley Farrar, Straus
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My Lover, the Rabbi By Wayne Koestenbaum Farrar Straus and Giroux, 464 pp. It could be wisdom, it could
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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation By Michael Lowenthal Mad Creek Books, 296 pp I, too, have been
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Central to Yiddish’s complex history is regret for a future that could have been if only had there not been a Holocaust. ...
When bishops and rabbis excoriated necromancers it was more a question of keeping that magical talent in clerical hands than one of efficacy. ...
When a director of an Israeli spy agency retires, there is a burst of interest in what they will reveal about secret operations—and what they’ve really thought about Israeli leaders. ...
Reading Joanna Olczak-Ronikier’s book about her family, I was reminded of my first morning in Poland on a reporting assignment in 1981. ...