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a very rough line sketch of a pig on a parchment-like background
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Award-winning book on Jews and pigs roots through ancient taboo

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 19, 2025February 19, 2025
The Educational Bookshop on Salah Ad-din Street in East Jerusalem, as captured in November 2011. (Google Maps)
Posted inIsrael

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookstores in east Jerusalem

by Deborah Danan February 10, 2025February 10, 2025
The son of Jewish parents who fled the Nazis for safe harbor in the United States, Sen. Ron Wyden shares lessons from 40-plus career in politics in a new memoir. (Grand Central Publishing)
Posted inPolitics

Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power

by Andrew Silow-Carroll February 3, 2025February 3, 2025
From the cover of "The Gonif" by Andy Weinberger
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Guide to pithy phrases and stolen Torah mystery in new books from local authors

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 30, 2025January 30, 2025
Writer Adam Gopnik spoke at JCCSF recently. (Brigitte Lacombe)
Posted inHistory

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on where Jews thrive best: Cities

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
An illustration of tourists standing in line at Auschwitz. One asks "Is this the line for ticket holders?" Another replies "It's for people who don't have tickets yet. I've been waiting for FOUR hours!"
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
Detail from a page of "Miri's Moving Day"
Posted inBooks

‘Can I be both Chinese and Jewish?’ Children’s book unpacks a young girl’s identity

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
Haaretz journalist Lee Yaron is the author of "10/7"
Posted inBooks

Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 22, 2025January 22, 2025
a headshot of the author, a grey-haired man wearing glasses, next to the cover of his book
Posted inBooks

‘My Brother’s Keeper’: UCSF psychiatrist diagnoses the mental health industry in new book

by Emma Goss December 31, 2024January 7, 2025
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" on sale at a French bookstore in 2017. (Photo/JTA-ActuaLitté-Flickr Commons)
Posted inComics

Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winner behind ‘Maus,’ plans graphic novel about Gaza

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen December 30, 2024December 30, 2024

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