Books
'My Other Half': Sex, drugs, rock & roll, philosophy, and cynicism - book review
In My Other Half, the hero, Jake, eventually meets an unexpected fate in Jerusalem. Until then, he embarks on a hilarious series of decadent misadventures, some of which appear below.
'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review
'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review
'The Jewish March of Folly': Vindicating Zionism while warning the Jewish People - review
Millions of burnt books show how 'war of endurance' is hurting Ukraine, economy continues to slow
A Russian drone strike on Ranok's warehouse in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on August 1 destroyed about 8 million books, the biggest blow yet to Ukraine's publishing industry during the war.
'Israel on Trial': US Judge Roy K. Altman takes on accusations against the Jewish state - review
A nascent state has to fulfill four requirements: have a permanent population, a defined territory, be governed by a single effective government, and have the capacity to conduct foreign relations.
From fake burps to reverse tashlich, new children’s books bring the High Holidays to life
The 2026 High Holiday season brings a new set of Jewish children’s books, with new stories spanning Rosh Hashanah traditions, Yom Kippur apologies and Sukkot celebrations.
AI burns books? Tech giants are buying, shredding books to train smarter chatbots
AI Tech giants have been working on a secret project to buy millions of books and destroy them to feed their new models.
'Reclaiming Redemption Vol. II': Tracing Jewish survival from exile to war - book review
Moshe Taragin’s wartime essays argue that Jewish faith is carried not only through ideas, but through the people whose resilience has preserved it across history.
'The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel': Groundbreaking way to explore the Book of Samuel - review
Koren’s new Samuel does more than explain the biblical text. Through archaeology, maps, manuscripts, and photography, it restores the physical world in which the story unfolded.
PJ Library founder Harold Grinspoon still reinventing himself at 97
Nearly a century after witnessing the Holocaust and rising antisemitism, philanthropist Harold Grinspoon reflects on Jewish resilience, legacy, and the future at age 97.
'A Life of the Mind': New biography reexamines the mind of Hannah Arendt - review
Recently discovered archival material and underutilized sources in German to illuminate her experiences and ideas, about antisemitism and Zionism as well as philosophy.
'A Life': Mark Oppenheimer captures the iconic life and legacy of Judy Blume - review
The prolific Blume, still alive and well at age 88, has sold over 80 million copies of her books worldwide.
'Faith in a Turbulent World': Lamentations teaches us how to endure grief - review
Yael Ziegler shows how the structure, rhythm and shifting voices of Lamentations hold grief, accusation and faith within the same biblical text.
