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Bruce Chilton is the author of “The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession.”
Posted inBooks

Q&A: New book plumbs role of the Herods in forming early Jewish, Christian views

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS August 18, 2021
Michael Chabon looking at Twitter birds
Posted inTech

After abandoning Instagram in disgust, @MichaelChabon is speaking his mind on Twitter

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 18, 2021August 18, 2021
Ethel Rosenberg under arrest
Posted inOff the Shelf

70 years later, Ethel Rosenberg reemerges in a new biography and novel

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
From the cover of “Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age” by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Posted inBooks

Q&A: New book explains how Jews invented science fiction

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 13, 2021June 10, 2024
Sheera Frenkel is a cybersecurity reporter at the New York Times and the author of a new book about Facebook. (Photo/Beowulf Sheehan)
Posted inCulture

Oakland author of Facebook exposé cut her teeth in the Mideast

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 2, 2021August 6, 2021
a young boy sits reading Curious George
Posted inCulture

Summer is a real page-turner in my book-happy family

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein July 27, 2021
From the cover of "The Passenger" by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Posted inOff the Shelf

Looking back on Nazi era in newly reissued novels from 1930s

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 13, 2021July 13, 2021
Rachel Michelberg is the author of “Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver.”
Posted inBooks

Memoir: Faced with a lifetime of caregiving after husband’s accident, she said no

by Liz Harris June 23, 2021June 23, 2021
Authors Elin Hilderbrand and Casey McQuiston said they would remove respective references to Anne Frank and Israel from their novels after small numbers of social media readers took issue with the passages. (Illustration/Grace Yagel-JTA)
Posted inCulture

Two non-Jewish authors remove ‘Anne Frank’ and ‘Israel’ from their novels after Twitter outcry

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 22, 2021June 22, 2021
two images: the book voer features a muted illustration of leaves. and the picture of the author shows a young white woman with long brown hair smiling in the sun.
Posted inBooks

Cal student’s pandemic project: a book on ‘The Full Severity’ of Jewish identity

by Gabriel Greschler June 17, 2021June 23, 2021

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