Debra Eckerling, Judy Gruen and Kylie Ora Lobell won top honors at the 2025 awards ceremony. Judea Pearl presented the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.
On the holiday of Sukkot, it is customary to read Kohelet, the Book of Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon. The following \”updated\” version of Kohelet is written by Judy Gruen, with major apologies to King Solomon.
In her debut book, “Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything” Freya India presents a stinging indictment against those she blames for having turned normal girls into GIRLS®, an ideal target market for the social media, pharmaceutical, beauty and online therapy industries.
“Out From Under” is filled with strong, dynamic women who all have something to teach Lev, but the author resists framing the novel as a feminist project.
The book is not a single narrative but a novel of interconnected stories, each laced with irony, poignancy, and hilarity.
A rising tide of literature, movies, articles, podcasts, and even some business names and consumer products are laced with four-letter words.
This light of Shabbat was built into the foundation of the universe, and I believe that it can counter the darkness of worry, of pain, of conflict, of trivialities. What a powerful idea to think about when we embrace the light.
