24 Jul

Book Review, Latest

Review | 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go To College

Posted by Jessica Ackerman

July 24, 2025

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Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton explain the basics of Israel and Judaism to students, but should the target audience be exclusively Jewish?

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02 Jul

literary moment, Summer 2025

Book Review | The Forgotten Bond Between Teddy and the Tribe

Posted by Robert Siegel

July 2, 2025

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In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times.

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19 Jun

literary moment, Summer 2025

Book Review | A Golden Age Seen Through Its Icons

Posted by Gloria Levitas

June 20, 2025

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Sip it slowly, and live or relive this golden age—an era giddy with hope, a time of light.

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10 Jun

Highlights, Latest, literary moment

Book Review | Everything Matters: A Surprising Take on Spirituality, Ethics and Daily Life

Posted by Jack Reimer

June 20, 2025

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I came away feeling that this book ought to be read by all kinds of Jews.

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07 Apr

Book Review, Highlights, literary moment, Spring 2025

Book Review | Israel Doesn’t Fit Your Frameworks

Posted by Carlin Romano

April 10, 2025

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Is it possible to be evenhanded in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Hamas war?

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07 Apr

Book Review, literary moment, Spring 2025

Book Review | It’s All Happened Here

Posted by Robert Siegel

April 7, 2025

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“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions.

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26 Mar

Book Review, Highlights, literary moment, Spring 2025

Book Review | The Colorful Crew Who Unlocked the Past

Posted by Robert Alter

March 26, 2025

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“It is clearly not a flawless book, but it is definitely a good read.”

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23 Jan

Book Review, literary moment, Winter 2025

Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire

Posted by Miriam Isaacs

January 23, 2025

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The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right.

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23 Jan

Book Review, literary moment, Winter 2025

Book Review | A Tale of Dueling Abrahams

Posted by Robert Siegel

January 23, 2025

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Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham.

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23 Jan

Book Review, literary moment, Winter 2025

Book Review | Jews at the End of the World

Posted by E.Kinney Zalesne

January 23, 2025

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Families, cities and planets are “atomized,” seemingly beyond redemption, in this hellscape of a novel.

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09 Dec

2024 November/December, Book Review, literary moment

Book Review | The Failure of Aryan Physics

Posted by Robert Siegel

December 9, 2024

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The spiraling arms race of the Cold War was thus set off by the bomb that German physicists recognized was beyond their reach.

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04 Dec

2024 November/December, Book Review, Featured, literary moment

Book Review | A Rebbe with a Fiddle and No Followers

Posted by Michael Krasny

December 11, 2024

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“There is much to be charmed by in this novel and even more to learn from it.”

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