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Detail from the cover of "The Wolf Hunt" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Posted inBooks

Antisemitism haunts Israeli family in Silicon Valley in ‘The Wolf Hunt’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 3, 2023August 3, 2023
Detail from a lithograph of a micrography Book of Jonah completed in 1897 by Moses Elijah Goldstein of Frankfurt am Main. (Photo/Library of Congress)
Posted inFiction

Novel excerpt: ‘Forget I Told You This’

Hilary Zaid by Hilary Zaid August 2, 2023August 2, 2023
Posted inOff the Shelf

Israeli author Eshkol Nevo’s novel in three parts explores yearning and betrayal

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 2, 2023August 2, 2023
Students at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers, New York study a biblical text through circus movement in 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ora Horn Prouser, from “Under One Tent”)
Posted inBooks

In their classroom, Torah is a three-ring circus — by design

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 1, 2023
Ruth Mark Eglash is the author of "Parallel Lines." (Photo/Ariel Jerozolimski)
Posted inBooks

In ‘Parallel Lines,’ Israeli journalist uses fiction to untangle Mideast conflict

by Dan Pine August 1, 2023June 17, 2024
Nancy Zimmerman Pechner (center), her mom Alice (left) and sister Beverly at a Zim's restaurant in 1969. Pechner's father Art Zimmerman founded the popular S.F. burger chain. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

Behind Zim’s hamburgers was a family in turmoil

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz July 31, 2023July 31, 2023
illustration: a black silhouette of a perched bird against a background of flames
Posted inBooks

Q&A: All Jews go to hell in Oakland writer’s ‘irreligious’ novel

by Sue Fishkoff June 28, 2023June 29, 2023
Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz poses holding a copy of "Fragmented"
Posted inHealth

Stanford doc’s new book sounds alarm about ‘fragmented’ medical care

by Dr. Jerry Saliman June 27, 2023June 27, 2023
Detail from the cover art of "My Hijacking" by Martha Hodes
Posted inUncategorized

A week as a hostage on a hijacked plane, a lifetime of anxiety and traumatic memories

by Julia M. Klein June 26, 2023
Alina Sivorinovsky, who writes under the pen name Alina Adams, is the author of "My Mother's Secret," which is set in Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region.
Posted inBooks

Eat, Pray, Oy Vey: Decision to pull Elizabeth Gilbert’s Russia-set book worries Jewish writers

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 16, 2023June 19, 2023

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