If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Nava Kurshan
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world’s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for “daily page” of the Talmud, a...
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(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump by Jonathan Weisman
Anti-Semitism has always been present in American culture, but with the rise of the Alt Right and an uptick of threats to Jewish communities since Trump took office, New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman...
Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it “Satan’s Highway,” “The...
