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Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur (Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
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‘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
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library)
Posted inHistory

Amateur detectives are invited to join search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
Elissa Strauss (Photo/Laura Turbow Photography)
Posted inCulture

Oakland author celebrates the ‘Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 28, 2024July 31, 2024
Oren Kroll-Zeldin at a co-resistance action near Hebron, in the West Bank, in June 2022. (Emily Glick)
Posted inBooks

‘Unsettled’: Meet the young activist Jews standing up for Palestine in USF professor’s new book

by Sue Fishkoff June 27, 2024July 31, 2024
Noa Silver is the author of "California Dreaming." (Photo/Nicole Lev)
Posted inBooks

‘California Dreaming’: A Jewish millennial learns about adulting in debut novel

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 26, 2024July 31, 2024
Moshe Kasher (Photo/Messica)
Posted inBooks

Oakland-raised comedian Moshe Kasher explores the cultures that shaped him in memoir

by Aaron Howard June 25, 2024June 25, 2024
a photo of a bearded man next to an illustration of a man standing at a podium that says "welcome rabbinical students." the man says, "first, do no ham."
Posted inBooks

‘Funny Stuff’: Gag cartoonist in Piedmont reverse-engineers his craft in new book

by Dan Pine June 24, 2024June 25, 2024
Anna Goodman Herrick (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inPoetry

Queer poet weaves mysticism and memoir in new book

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 13, 2024June 14, 2024

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