Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
How to Be Black and Jewish
Tudor Parfitt
Harvard University Press
2013, $29.95, pp. 232
Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search f...
28
Dec
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Jul
The Secret Life of Jewish Genes
The question of who is a Jew has become a knot of complexities. I once heard Benjamin Netanyahu say in jest at a lunch at The New York ...
05
Jan
Speaking Volumes | Crying for Jean Valjean
I read Les Misérables when I was 25, studying at the London School of Economics. I was searching for my path. I’d spent several years as a journalist and was considering trying to make a go of it as a foreign correspondent.
29
Nov
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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority
reviewed by Robin Aronson
03
Dec
People of the Book's Hanukkah Throwback
By Sala Levin
When you're a child, Hanukkah is truly the most wonderful time of the year. There's something magical about watching th...
24
Nov
People of the Book: The Finkler Question and the New Anti-Semitism
by Daniel Kieval
In Howard Jacobson's Booker-prize winning novel, The Finkler Question, Jewish residents of London are increasingly al...