Gila Pfeffer on Finding Meaning and Humor in the Darkest Times
By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried t...
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Samantha Greene Woodruff on Blacklists and being a 'Christmas Tree Jew'
The Trade Off is the story of a brilliant and ambitious young woman striving to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street. Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers, and ...
7 Tammi 202541min
Yehuda Kurtzer on Grappling with History and Memory
The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook, a rich collection of major Jewish ideas from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts ...
31 Joulu 202453min
Zibby Owens on the Healing Power of the Written Word
On Being Jewish Now is an intimate and hopeful collection of 75 meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how ...
24 Joulu 202441min
Francine Klagsbrun on Embracing and Reshaping Tradition
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. She later moved ...
17 Joulu 202459min
Jean Meltzer on ‘Jewitches’ and Jewish Joy
In Magical Meet Cute, Faye Kaplan is definitely happy alone. That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to her pottery. A golem pro...
10 Joulu 202451min
Yael van der Wouden on Rage, Desire, and Magic
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upend...
3 Joulu 202453min
Benjamin Resnick on the Enduring Precariousness of Jewish Life
Benjamin Resnick’s debut novel, Next Stop, is a work of speculative fiction that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through the lens of one family. After a black hole consumes the St...
3 Joulu 202449min
