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Barbra Streisand looking to her right, in a black and white photo. Only the left side of her face is visible

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everywhere an oink oink by david mamet

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cover of Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend

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A fragment of a mosaic showing a young woman's upper face.

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Book Review | From Half a Line to Hebrew Heroine

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The Shamama Case book cover

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Book Review | The Many Layers of Jewish Identity

Two books about with differing perspectives on America and Israel's relationship

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the house of love and prayer by tova reich

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A portrait of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a balding man with graying head hair and a magnificent mustache.

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A group of young women pray selihot outside at night in Israel.

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Book Review | A Madcap Holocaust Holiday

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Book Review | The Temple of Whitefish and Lox

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Book Review | The Evolution of Tyranny

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Two copies of The Assignment side by side

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Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah

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Two copies of "A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism"

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Three copies of "Under Jerusalem"

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mahjong

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Book Review | Sifting Through Memory with Cynthia Ozick

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31 Jan

Book Review | The Power of DNA, Dolls and Delis

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Gateway to the Moon

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mapping the bones

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in search of israel

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Book Review // When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game

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anti-judaism anti-semitism and delegitimatizing Israel

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moonglow novel

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Book Review // Killing a King

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Book Review // The Cost of Courage

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Book Review // The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

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Book Review // The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

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Lincoln and The Jews by Jonathan Sarna and Benjamin Shapell book cover

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16 Jul

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The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir by Maxine Kumin book cover

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Ally by Michael B. Oren

06 Jul

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A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman cover

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Book Review // A Replacement Life

The Life of Saul Bellow to Fame and Fortune

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Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano cover

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The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol

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The Catholic Conversion in Teaching on Jews

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Reza Aslan’s Jesus

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Book Review | The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company

28 May

Book Q&A: Naomi Schaefer Riley

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Herod the Great?

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Genesis Secularized: An Exchange Between Ronald Hendel and Jon Levenson

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Book Review // The Lawgiver

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Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon cover

20 Sep

Record Store Blues

The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum

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Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books

05 Mar

Speaking Volumes | My Spring Break with Philip Roth

Book Review | The Anti-Semite Who Wasn’t

Book Review | Jerusalem: The Unholy Story

Book Review | They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore

Robert Siegel reviews "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America," by Clay Risen.

07 Apr

Book Review | It’s All Happened Here

26 Mar

Book Review | The Colorful Crew Who Unlocked the Past

23 Jan

Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire

23 Jan

Book Review | A Tale of Dueling Abrahams

23 Jan

Book Review | Jews at the End of the World

26 Dec

Moment’s 2024 Books Gift Guide

09 Dec

Book Review | The Failure of Aryan Physics

04 Dec

Book Review | A Rebbe with a Fiddle and No Followers

08 Oct

Book Review | With Critics Like These, Israel Will Be Fine

08 Oct

Book Review | Kiss Me, I’m Irish and Jewish!

08 Oct

Book Review | The Young, the Rich and the Guilty

02 Sep

Book Review: The Double Life of a Female Jewish Crime Boss

25 Jul

Book Review | Is Motherhood Bigger Than Reality?

The cover of Barbara Walters' memoir, Rulebreaker

16 Jul

Book Review | Love and Fear Drove a Dogged TV Pioneer

15 Jul

Summer Reads for Sun—and Shade

The cover of Noah Feldman 's 'To Be a Jew Today'

07 Jul

Book Review | Noah Feldman Explains Us To Ourselves

Book called "Qohelet"

15 Apr

Book Review | An Ancient Book Illuminates Our Troubled Times

Volodymyr Zelensky on the cover of two books

15 Apr

Book Review | Ukraine’s Zelensky, Warts and All

James McBride Charles Dickens

15 Feb

A Vision of Decency and Hope: Why James McBride Is Today’s Charles Dickens

Barbra Streisand looking to her right, in a black and white photo. Only the left side of her face is visible

14 Jan

Book Review | She Came, She Sang, She Conquered

Two books side by side with a blue background. "Judgement at Tokyo" on the left, "France on Trial" on the right

14 Jan

Book Review | When an Adored Villain Gets His Day in Court

29 Dec

The Great Arab Revolt and Its Echoes Today

29 Dec

Four Novels of 2023 That Are More Jewish Than You Thought

2023's Best Jewish Books

08 Dec

Top 10 Jewish Books of 2023

Henry Kissinger in the White House Cabinet Room | Photo courtesy of the National Archives

30 Nov

Book Review | Henry Kissinger on Successful Leadership

everywhere an oink oink by david mamet

21 Nov

Book Review | Hollywood Gets the Mamet Treatment

Leopold and Loeb by Hal Higdon

21 Nov

Book Review | Revisiting a 1920s Thrill Kill

The Controversialist by Martin Peretz

11 Sep

Book Review | The Maker and Breaker of Ideas

Three books by Jewish refugees to America about their baggage

11 Sep

Book Review | The Baggage You Can’t Leave Behind

cover of Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend

11 Sep

Book Review | The Voice Behind the ‘SWISH!’

A fragment of a mosaic showing a young woman's upper face.

11 Aug

Book Review | From Half a Line to Hebrew Heroine

19 Jul

Partly Cloudy Reads for Your Beach Bag

The Butterfly and the Axe by Omer Bartov

19 Jul

Book Review | The Truth Only Fiction Can Touch

The Shamama Case book cover

19 Jul

Book Review | The Many Layers of Jewish Identity

Two books about with differing perspectives on America and Israel's relationship

03 Apr

Book Review | America, Jews and Israel— It’s Complicated

the house of love and prayer by tova reich

03 Apr

Book Review | A Writer Whose Stories Bite Deep

18 Jan

Book Review | The Journey of a Baghdadi Dynasty

destroyed neighborhood in Raqqa

17 Jan

Book Review | Degrade and Destroy

Sam by Allegra Goodman

12 Jan

Book Review | A Girl Who’s Born to Climb

King Josiah hearing the book of law.

11 Nov

Book Review | Whose Biblical Law Is This, Anyway?

nazi billionaires by david de jong

07 Nov

Book Review | Very, Very Dirty Money

maus now by hillary chute

07 Nov

Book Review | The Maus That Roared

Jersey Breaks by Robert Pinsky

07 Nov

Book Review | A Jewish Kid Who Loved Yeats

A portrait of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a balding man with graying head hair and a magnificent mustache.

17 Oct

Book Review | Biography of a Baron

Morgenthau by Andrew Meier

28 Sep

Book Review | A Family of Ambitious Aristocrats

Shy, by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, sitting on a beige table

28 Sep

Book Review | Secrets of a Musical Family

Dirshuni by Tamar Biala

28 Sep

Book Review | Studying Talmud with Beruriah

A group of young women pray selihot outside at night in Israel.

14 Sep

Book Review | Reviving Selihot, Judaism’s Midnight Prayer Service

08 Aug

Book Review | Israel’s Star Turn

06 Jul

Summer Novels to Feast On

A picture of Nein Nein Nein by Jerry Stahl

06 Jul

Book Review | A Madcap Holocaust Holiday

Picture of the book "Zabar's: A Family Story, With Recipes"

06 Jul

Book Review | The Temple of Whitefish and Lox

22 Jun

Book Review | The Evolution of Tyranny

two copies of Aftermath books stacked on top of each other

04 Apr

Book Review | Germany’s Time of the Wolves

Two copies of The Assignment side by side

04 Apr

Moment Brand Studio: Liza Wiemer Fights Antisemitism with “The Assignment”

Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah

04 Apr

Book Review | A Seder Reimagined By A Feminist Poet

Amos Oz and Shira Hadad’s book ‘What Makes an Apple? Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt and Other Pleasures.’

04 Apr

Book Review | Amos Oz Looks Back at Literature

Two copies of "A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism"

02 Dec

Book Review | The Politics of Paranoia, Then and Now

Three copies of "Under Jerusalem"

02 Dec

Book Review | Beneath the City of God

Picture of the book "Our Country Friends"

15 Nov

Book Review | The First Covid Comedy

13 Sep

Book Review | The Mother of Hadassah—and Israel

Book cover: Book review: Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Je

13 Sep

Book Review | America’s Homegrown Jewish Terrorist

08 Sep

Book Review | Do Murdered Jews Speak Louder?

09 Jun

Book Review | Greed, Drugs and Philanthropy

satmar hasidim, cover photo

09 Jun

Book Review | Waiting for the Messiah in Williamsburg

mahjong

09 Jun

Book Review | Building Community One Tile at a Time

09 Jun

Book Review | A Writer Irreverent Even in Death

29 Mar

Book Review | Sifting Through Memory with Cynthia Ozick

15 Mar

Book Review | The Dark Origins of Polish Revisionism

15 Mar

Book Review | A Family in Pen and Ink

31 Jan

Book Review | The Power of DNA, Dolls and Delis

18 Jan

Book Review | Making Room for Ghosts

05 Jan

Book Review | The Failure of Impartiality

Jewish wonder women: three books about Jewish feminist superheroes-Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny By Cora Wilburn, The Superwoman and Other Writings By Miriam Michelson, and America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today By Pamela S. Nadell

20 Jan

Book Review | In Search of Lost Wonder Women

29 May

Book Review | Before Heschel Became Heschel

25 Mar

Book Review | Why the Left Left Israel

25 Mar

Book Review | JDate for the Dead

Harvey Milk

14 May

Book Review | Harvey Milk by Lillian Faderman

Gateway to the Moon

14 May

Book Review | Gateway To The Moon by Mary Morris

mapping the bones

15 Mar

Book Review | Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen

in search of israel

15 Mar

Book Review | In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea by Michael Brenner

A History of Judaism

15 Mar

Book Review | A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

06 Dec

Book Review // When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game

03 Oct

Book Review | Jewish Comedy: A Serious history

anti-judaism anti-semitism and delegitimatizing Israel

28 Nov

Book Review // Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism and Delegitimizing Israel

moonglow novel

28 Nov

Book Review // Moonglow

Judas novel by Amos Oz

03 Nov

Book Review // Judas

Anti-Judaism Anti-Semitism and Delegitimizing Israel novel

03 Nov

Book Review // Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism and Delegitimizing Israel

07 Dec

Book Review // Alexandrian Summer

13 Nov

Book Review // Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps

02 Nov

Book Review // Killing a King

22 Sep

Book Review // The Cost of Courage

15 Sep

Book Review // The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

03 Sep

Book Review // The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

01 Sep

Book Review // On the Move

Lincoln and The Jews by Jonathan Sarna and Benjamin Shapell book cover

16 Jul

Book Review // Lincoln and the Jews: A History

Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum book cover

16 Jul

Book Review // Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir by Maxine Kumin book cover

16 Jul

Book Review // The Pawnbroker’s Daughter: A Memoir

Ally by Michael B. Oren

06 Jul

Book Review // Ally

A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman cover

13 May

Book Review // A Replacement Life

The Life of Saul Bellow to Fame and Fortune

05 May

Book Review // The Life of Saul Bellow

Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano cover

05 May

Book Review // Suspended Sentences

The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol

10 Mar

Book Review // The UnAmericans

04 Oct

The Catholic Conversion in Teaching on Jews

13 Aug

Reza Aslan’s Jesus

08 Jul

Book Review | The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company

28 May

Book Q&A: Naomi Schaefer Riley

23 May

Herod the Great?

Glenn Frankel on “The Searchers”

Genesis Secularized: An Exchange Between Ronald Hendel and Jon Levenson

26 Feb

Book Review | jews and words

01 Nov

Book Review // The Lawgiver

01 Nov

Book Review // The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland

01 Nov

Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon cover

20 Sep

Record Store Blues

The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum

Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself

Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books

05 Mar

Speaking Volumes | My Spring Break with Philip Roth

Book Review | The Anti-Semite Who Wasn’t

Book Review | Jerusalem: The Unholy Story

Book Review | They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore

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