New Jewish Books
“Indispensable” is an overused term in book reviews, but Timothy Snyder’s analysis of the political, social, intellectual, and historical circumstances that gave rise to and even nourished Hitler’s brilliant madness is truly that. The...
Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life’s most important questions: who do we want to...
Only a year ago, Isabel Moore was married, the object of adoration of her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short...
In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced labor, and extermination. Marie took off her yellow star, turned her...
Life-Saving Lessons from Israel for a Water-Deprived World As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The U.S. government...
How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s...
A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible Aviya Kushner’s personal experience of rediscovering in translation the Bible she knew by heart in Hebrew. Kushner grew up in a religious Jewish household...
Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a...
Inside the world’s most successful Jewish movement Considered one of the most influential movements in modern Judaism,writers have speculated for decades about the unparalleled success of Chabad Lubavitch. In The Secret of Chabad, Rabbi...
Oliver Sacks was equally at home in the wards of chronic disease hospitals as he was in the esteemed and hallowed halls of Oxford or riding across the United States with leather bikers. Perhaps...
