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The cover of the Yiddish edition of the second Harry Potter book
Posted inBooks

As the second Yiddish Harry Potter book arrives, J.K. Rowling is she who must not be named

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar August 14, 2024August 14, 2024
Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg's “The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism” represents what one admirer calls a “culmination of a lifetime of theological reflection.” (University of Nebraska Press/Jewish Publication Society)
Posted inUncategorized

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for 

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 13, 2024August 13, 2024
Adolf Hitler speaks in the Lustgarten in Berlin during the Reich presidential election on April 4, 1932. (German Federal Archives/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inAnalysis

A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 8, 2024August 8, 2024
An El Al airplane in flight
Posted inCulture

How it feels to leave Israel when an attack is coming and every airline is canceling flights

by Aviya Kushner August 7, 2024August 7, 2024
Paintings from Archie Rand’s series “The 613.” (Courtesy)
Posted inCulture

These are the 30 pieces of contemporary Jewish culture that bring us joy

by J. Staff August 2, 2024October 15, 2024
The cover of "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" superimposed over a photo of Gabrielle Zevin speaking into a microphone
Posted inBooks

How Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war

by Andrew Lapin July 24, 2024July 24, 2024
Rabbi Adina Allen is the co-founder of the Jewish Studio Project and the author of "The Place of All Possibility" (Sarah Deragon)
Posted inArt

‘The Place of All Possibility’: In Berkeley rabbi’s first book, how to engage with Jewish text by making art

by Sue Fishkoff July 23, 2024July 31, 2024
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur (Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘Living with Our Dead’: A French rabbi reflects on death in a powerful bestseller, now out in English

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 17, 2024July 31, 2024
Ruth Westheimer asks comedian Richard Lewis, "How did you get so crazy?" in an episode of "Ask Dr. Ruth."
Posted inObituaries

Ruth Westheimer — woman of valor, Lion of Judah and America’s most famous sexologist

by Benjamin Ivry July 15, 2024July 15, 2024
Detail of the cover of "Long Island Compromise" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. (Random House)
Posted inBooks

Must Jews be defined by trauma? New novel offers a surprising answer

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 10, 2024July 10, 2024

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