The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness By Elliot Jager
Elliot Jager, who unwillingly has no children, strongly protests what he says is Judaism’s stigmatization of the childless. He’s “searching for a defense counsel,...
Disraeli: The Novel Politician, By David Cesarani
Benjamin Disraeli, the only Jewish-born prime minister of the United Kingdom, may have been Jewish by birth, but his life and descriptions of the...
Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel By Eric Gartman
Most people are familiar with the history of Israel, but they weren’t standing on Masada more than 2,000 years ago when what had been...
The 613 By Archie Rand
It took Archie Rand almost five years to produce the paintings featured in “The 613,” an illustrated interpretation of the 613 mitzvot, or commandments,...
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World By Seth M....
Speaking from Austin, Texas, in between his 55th and 56th speaking engagements, author Seth M. Siegel laments how the Barnes & Noble retailer places...
My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things By Joseph Skibell
Perhaps Joseph Skibell’s unusual approach to life’s occurrences is related to his family’s unusual
pronunciation of the truncated version of its European name.
Americanized — sort...
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“Being Nixon: A Man Divided” By Evan Thomas
Random House, 531 pages
“One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon” By Tim Weiner
Henry Holt...
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel...
Yigal Amir believed that killing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin would prevent a transfer of the ancient Jewish heartland to Arab control, and he was...
Abraham: The World’s First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer By Alan M. Dershowitz
In his latest sharp-witted work, the world’s perhaps best-known Jewish lawyer profiles the man he considers to the first-ever Jewish lawyer: the biblical patriarch...
Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life By Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
When bad events challenge our childhood faith in God’s goodness or even in God’s
existence, “it is not only permissible but a religious obligation” to...
