Review | 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go To College
Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton explain the basics of Israel and Judaism to students, but should the target audience be exclusively Jewish?
Book Review | The Forgotten Bond Between Teddy and the Tribe
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times.
Book Review | A Golden Age Seen Through Its Icons
Sip it slowly, and live or relive this golden age—an era giddy with hope, a time of light.
Book Review | Everything Matters: A Surprising Take on Spirituality, Ethics and Daily Life
I came away feeling that this book ought to be read by all kinds of Jews.
Book Review | Israel Doesn’t Fit Your Frameworks
Is it possible to be evenhanded in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Hamas war?
Book Review | It’s All Happened Here
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions.
Book Review | The Colorful Crew Who Unlocked the Past
“It is clearly not a flawless book, but it is definitely a good read.”
Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right.
Book Review | A Tale of Dueling Abrahams
Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham.
Book Review | Jews at the End of the World
Families, cities and planets are “atomized,” seemingly beyond redemption, in this hellscape of a novel.
Book Review | The Failure of Aryan Physics
The spiraling arms race of the Cold War was thus set off by the bomb that German physicists recognized was beyond their reach.
Book Review | A Rebbe with a Fiddle and No Followers
“There is much to be charmed by in this novel and even more to learn from it.”