01 Nov 2012 November-December, Book Review, History Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York March 28, 2014 By Sam Roberts 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram The Big (Jewish) Apple City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York Edited by Deborah Dash Moore NYU Press 2012, $99.00, p...Continue reading
20 Sep 2012 September-October, Book Review, Latest Record Store Blues October 11, 2012 By Daniel Klein 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Harper 2012, $27.99, pp. 465 The most perilous pitfall for a tour de force is that the tour can c...Continue reading
18 May Book Review, Culture, Interview, Latest, Politics, Religion The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum June 4, 2013 By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil 2 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over Pa...Continue reading
31 Mar 2012 May/June, Book Review, Issues, Topics Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself January 31, 2013 By Justin Sovine 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Alan A. Stone DucClaude Lanzmann is known on this side of the Atlantic as the Frenchman who created the monumental film, Shoah. H...Continue reading
31 Mar 2012 May/June, Book Review, Issues, Topics Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books June 4, 2013 By Moment 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram The Book Thief By Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a beautiful but haunting story about a young girl living in Nazi Germany. I first ...Continue reading
05 Mar 2012 March-April, Arts, Book Review, Issues Speaking Volumes | My Spring Break with Philip Roth March 19, 2021 By Eric Wasserman 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram At the end of 1995, I briefly dropped out of college. It was an unpleasant time, to say the least. I kept asking myself who I was and, ...Continue reading
05 Mar 2012 March-April, Book Review, History, Issues, Topics Book Review | The Anti-Semite Who Wasn’t June 4, 2013 By John Marszalek 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By John Marszalek Jonathan Sarna’s book When General Grant Expelled the Jews is going to make a significant splash amidst a wave of ...Continue reading
05 Mar 2012 March-April, Book Review, Israel, Issues Book Review | Jerusalem: The Unholy Story June 4, 2013 By Arieh O Sullivan 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Arieh O'Sullivan Jerusalem is in an awful location. There’s no water. It’s far from any main trade route, surrounded by mountains...Continue reading
05 Mar 2012 March-April, Book Review, Issues, Religion, Topics Book Review | They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore June 4, 2013 By Pamela Eisenbaum 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Pamela Eisenbaum Daniel Boyarin, professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California Berkeley, may be the most influent...Continue reading