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Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" on sale at a French bookstore in 2017. (Photo/JTA-ActuaLitté-Flickr Commons)
Posted inU.S.

‘Maus’ evades a ban in Iowa after school district cites ‘ambiguity’ in new state law

by Andrew Lapin August 4, 2023August 4, 2023
Sholem Aleichem at his writing desk in 1904.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Books we reviewed in the early 1900s had not one ‘beach read’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 4, 2023August 6, 2023
Richard Kluger's new book is "Hamlet's Children."
Posted inBooks

Q&A: Pulitzer-winning Berkeley author’s new novel tells story of Danish Jews in World War II

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 4, 2023May 2, 2024
Bernard Malamud was the author of "The Fixer," a 1966 novel about an antisemitic blood libel. (Photo/JTA-Nancy R. Schiff-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks

South Carolina school district to return Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Fixer’ to shelves after yearlong removal

by Andrew Lapin August 3, 2023August 3, 2023
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
Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman in the 2016 movie "Pee-wee's Big Holiday."
Posted inObituaries

Paul Reubens, son of a founding Israeli Air Force pilot and father of Pee-wee Herman, dies at 70

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar July 31, 2023

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