Thursday, March 18, 2010
Book on Israeli start-ups bolsters Israel’s image
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
When Intel’s Israeli division proposed a new strategy to vastly improve the processing speed of the company's laptop computer chips, Intel's U.S. . . .
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Memoir’s Glimpse of Anne Frank Draws Skepticism
AP
Frail, cold and surrounded by death, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
American Funnyman in Israel’s Army
By Jonathan Kirsch
The first thing you need to know about Joel Chasnoff’s “The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah” (Free . . .
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Devil Within: Siri Hustvedt’s Memoir of an Undiagnosed Illness
By Jonathan Kirsch
A fraught moment in the encounter between men and women is the one in which an ailing woman seeks a cure from a healer — sometimes a physician, . . .
Friday, February 26, 2010
Stuart Matlins: Visionary for the People of the Book
by Mark Pearlman of JInsider.com
In light of our status as the People of the Book, there is no doubt one of our Top Jews is the visionary Stuart Matlins. An accomplished businessman, . . .
Friday, February 26, 2010
Jewish author’s estate accuses J.K. Rowling of plagiarism
By Dan Goldberg, JTA
It could be the script for a best-selling novel or a blockbuster . . .
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Early American Jewish books to be auctioned
JTA
Several rare early American Jewish books will be auctioned in New York.
Among the offerings at next month's sale by Swann Auction Galleries is an . . .
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Marcel Möring’s new novel explores death and life, post-Holocaust
Dora Levy Mossanen
In the skilled hands of the Dutch author Marcel Möring, “In a Dark Wood” (HarperCollins Publishers, $27.99) confirms that a work of fiction can . . .
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Defiance in the Shtetl
By Jonathan Kirsch
When we hear the word “amidah,” it is usually referring to the standing prayer that is the core of the Jewish prayer service. But the same word . . .
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Don DeLillo in Short Form
By Jonathan Kirsch
If J. D. Salinger had written “The Catcher in the Rye” and nothing else, he would still be remembered as an enduringly important novelist. The . . .
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Science, Religion and God
Charlotte Gordon
Who’s the better Jew? The Hassid who believes in the literal truth of the Bible, denies the findings of modern science and reprimands women who . . .
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Can Journalism Survive?
Steve Weinberg
Year after year during the first decade of the current century, commentators have proclaimed the death of verifiable watchdog journalism across the . . .
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Talmudic Scholar Turns Detective
Charlotte Gordon
Think Sherlock Holmes with a dash of Woody Allen. Philip Roth and Stephen King. Mystery plus comedy. Detective novel meets Yiddish folk tale. Then . . .
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Bomb Power Breeds Imperial Presidencies
By Jonathan Kirsch
Over the years, I have read and reviewed books on subjects as diverse as the life of Augustine, the political back story of “Macbeth,” the glory . . .
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Will U B My Valentine, Mr. Values?
by Melanie Chartoff
I had this friend J.J. (not her real initials). With her biological clock on alarm, this publisher, a pillar of her community, fell madly in love . . .
Thursday, February 4, 2010
‘The Cello Suites’ brings music to life
By Jonathan Kirsch
If you do not already own a recording of Bach’s suites for the solo cello, you will certainly buy one before you finish reading Eric Siblin’s . . .
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Q & A With Lori Gottlieb
By Danielle Berrin
Essayist and novelist Lori Gottlieb, who has written a great deal about her own life, including her choice to become a single mom, has a new book out . . .
Monday, February 1, 2010
The Scales of Justice and the Angel of Death
By Michael Berenbaum
“Operation Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice,” Efraim Zuroff (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. . . .
Thursday, January 28, 2010
J.D. Salinger, reclusive author and grandson of rabbi, dies
JTA
J.D. Salinger, author of "Catcher in the Rye," recluse and grandson of a rabbi, has died at . . .
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Q&A With Robert Wistrich
By Jonathan Kirsch
Robert S. Wistrich, author of “A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad” (Random House: $40.00), has been called . . .
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Reflections on America From Abroad
By Jonathan Kirsch
“American exceptionalism,” the notion that the United States is unique among the nations of the world, dates back to de Tocqueville, but it has . . .
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Moment of Psycho
By Remy Holzer
I first saw “Psycho” in an order that must be unusual among Hitchcock devotees: it was the last of his American movies that I watched. I had . . .
Friday, January 15, 2010
Kertes among National Jewish Book Award winners
JTA
Toronto author Joseph Kertes has won the 59th annual National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for his novel, . . .
Friday, January 15, 2010
First-time winners take top book honors
JTA
A coming-of-age novel about an Israeli girl whose family relocates to Staten Island was among the winners of the 2010 Sydney Taylor Book Awards for . . .
