Summer Novels to Feast On
Every summer, Jennifer Weiner serves up a quintessential summer novel, effortlessly blending the cozy and the topical and usually sprinkling in some Cape Cod flavor.
Book Review | A Madcap Holocaust Holiday
An elderly Holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven.
Book Review | The Temple of Whitefish and Lox
Lori Zabar’s new book reveals the family history behind the iconic grocery store.
Book Review | The Evolution of Tyranny
Thirty years ago, as the Soviet Union was coming apart and its hold on Eastern Europe was loosening, democracy appeared ascendant not just in Europe but worldwide. For advocates of democratic government, the 20th century concluded on a triumphant note. Today that note is a distant, barely audible signal from a bygone era.
Book Review | Germany’s Time of the Wolves
A European country bombed into rubble. Refugees streaming across multiple borders.
Moment Brand Studio: Liza Wiemer Fights Antisemitism with “The Assignment”
In her latest young adult novel, The Assignment, author Liza Wiemer asks readers what they would do to stop antisemitism—or any form of hate or injustice.
Book Review | A Seder Reimagined By A Feminist Poet
The most formative experience of my college years wasn’t in a classroom.
Book Review | Amos Oz Looks Back at Literature
In the midst of a long conversation about men, women, love, sex and his own adolescence, the late Amos Oz reminds his interlocutor Shira Hadad that “the most important word in our whole conversation today is ‘sometimes.’”
Book Review | The Politics of Paranoia, Then and Now
Almost a half-century before Donald Trump signed on to the fraudulent notion that President Barack Obama’s American citizenship and constitutional legitimacy were suspect, Robert Welch (1899-1985) reached an equally alarming conclusion about the president of his day, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Book Review | Beneath the City of God
The rabbinic tradition speaks of a Jerusalem above and a Jerusalem below.
Book Review | The First Covid Comedy
As Jonathan Safran Foer pioneered the 9/11 novel, so Shteyngart does for COVID.
Book Review | The Mother of Hadassah—and Israel
“Wherever she sat and led the discussion, there was the head of the table.” Thus observed an early associate of Henrietta Szold’s in Hadassah, the powerhouse American women’s Zionist organization that she founded in 1912.