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By Ranen Omer-Sherman Guest Columnist For generations of scholars and general readers, Sander Gilman’s thought-provoking studies (he has authored or edited over a hundred books to date) are regarded as essential resources. Indeed, the academic field of Jewish Studies … Read More
By Ranen Omer-Sherman Guest Columnist Yishai Sarid is renowned for his startling portraits of contemporary Israeli society, such as The Memory Monster, a disquieting work about the uses of Holocaust remembrance and pedagogy. Sarid’s latest novel, The Third Temple, won … Read More
In his first two novels (Light Fell and When We Danced on Water), American-born Israeli writer Evan Fallenberg created highly sympathetic characters grappling with terrible losses and inner turmoil. Now, in The Parting Gift, Fallenberg delivers an intense tale of … Read More
The Conversation: A Novel by Joshua Golding. Urim Publications, Jerusalem. 527 pages. HB. $28.95. The Conversation is 527 pages long and reads much longer, which is its strength and weakness. It traces student David Goldstein, who begins as a not-very-devout … Read More
[by David A.M. Wilensky] SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (JTA) – Leading a seder for the first time this year? There’s an app for that. Entries in the annual stream of new Haggadahs this year include a Reform version that comes in … Read More