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By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Last December, in a column about the Jewish books of 2023, I predicted that “next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the crisis in Israel or will be read through the … Read More
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Lee Yaron was in New York on Oct. 7, doing a fellowship at Columbia University, when news broke of an unimaginable attack on southern Israel by Hamas. Like many Israelis living abroad, she felt helpless … Read More
By Andrew Silow-Carrol (JTA) — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” and Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen,” died Wednesday (June 14) at age … Read More
Mike Steklof, assistant camp director of Jewish Community Center of Louisville’s Summer Camp, is receiving 24 books from PJ Library, a program within the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for the summer of 2014 to be used as part of Camp Keff. … Read More
[by Penny Schwartz] BOSTON (JTA) – Shofars, apples and honey, make room for pomegranates, couscous and pumpkins. The new crop of children’s books for the High Holidays opens a world beyond the beloved traditional symbols of the New Year (Rosh … Read More