Books Alice Walker disinvited by Bay Area Book Festival Updated March 27 The Bay Area Book Festival has rescinded an invitation to author Alice Walker over her “endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy… By Andrew Esensten Mar 25, 2022
Books How Jewish women pioneered the fitness movement The women appear perfectly coiffed, makeup impeccable. They’re dressed in shorts, blouses, light sweaters and earrings to match. You might think they were… By Stav Ziv, Forward Mar 18, 2022
Books Jewish writers from former Soviet Union have seen this before Novelist Zhanna Slor was born a few weeks after the Chernobyl disaster, in the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. Her timely arrival probably saved her… By Irene Katz Connelly, Forward Mar 17, 2022
Books Children's Holocaust novel decried for inaccuracies is getting a sequel “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” a best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies… By Andrew Lapin, JTA Mar 16, 2022
Off the Shelf 'Murders of Moisés Ville:' A Jewish disaster in 19th-century Argentina Although Argentina has long housed the largest Jewish population in Latin America, Jews in the United States tend to know little about this community.… By Howard Freedman Mar 14, 2022
Comics 'Where's My Timbrel?' Our new comic strip draws on artist's Jewish life Comics are Rebecca Schuchat’s preferred mode of self-expression. Yet the Oakland-born cartoonist, whose new comic strip, “Where’s My… By Emma Goss Mar 10, 2022
Off the Shelf Jewish verses from the pandemic poetry surge It was reported on National Public Radio last year that the Covid-19 pandemic had witnessed a dramatic increase in interest in poetry. It may be that… By Howard Freedman Feb 11, 2022
World Costco promotes new Anne Frank book, as Dutch publisher halts sales Costco named as its February “Buyer’s Pick” a book about Anne Frank that has been taken off the market in the Netherlands, in the latest sign that… By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Feb 10, 2022
U.S. The great ‘Maus’ giveaway is on as comic shops counter ban A rural Tennessee school board’s decision last month to remove “Maus,” the celebrated graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its curriculum has attracted… By Andrew Lapin, JTA Feb 2, 2022