New blog: Torah Book Reviews
“A blog for reviews and discussions of books on Torah related topics. Publishers and authors are welcome to submit books, in Hebrew or English, for brief review.” Author: Rabbi Ari N. Enkin, a resident of...
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Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone
On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind....
Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish America Art, 1880-1940 by Matthew Baigell
Beginning in the 1880s, radical causes increasingly attracted Jewish activists and thinkers, creating a substantial Jewish-American world of writers and artists. Most of the artists that author Matthew Baigell highlights emerged from this forty-year...
A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods by Michael Sokoloff
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by Jews in parts of what are now Iraq and Iran from the third to the tenth centuries C.E., corresponding to the Talmudic and Geonic...
The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer
A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Everything Is Illuminated Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and...
Last Folio: A Photographic Memory by Yuri Dojc and Katya Krausova
This collection of photographs taken decades after the Holocaust poignantly documents a once thriving culture that disappeared virtually overnight. The first country to adopt Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish policies, Slovakia transported three-quarters of its Jewish...
Can I Wear My Kippah on Job Interviews? by Rachel Margolin and Lavie Margolin
Career Guidance for Sabbath Observant Jewish Professionals Learn How to Get That Job While Keeping the Faith. Balancing religious and workplace obligations is a tricky business. You want to remain true to your values,...
Forgiving Maximo Rothman by A. J. Sidransky
Like many juicy mysteries, Forgiving Máximo Rothman, AJ Sidransky’s debut novel, begins with a murder. In this case, the victim is Max Redmond, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor found dead in his Washington Heights apartment....
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu,...
The Jews and the Bible by Jean-Christophe Attias
Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with...
