
What Kind of Judaism Do We Want After Oct. 7?
Arthur Green, “Can Judaism Be Saved: Its Future After Gaza” (Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025) pp. 139.
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.

Arthur Green, “Can Judaism Be Saved: Its Future After Gaza” (Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025) pp. 139.

Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was once almost mainstream, but which no longer exists, except in the minds of too few specialists.

Daniela Gerson’s “The Wanderers” is all that you can ask for from a book. Meticulously researched, exquisitely told, it is an adventure story spanning more than 80 years, even a love story.

Antisemitism is a deep and enduring American tradition. And yet America is also exceptional. American Jews live in the clash of those two realities.

Wendy A. Horwitz, Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments (Bloomington, IN.: Red Lightening Books, 2025) pp. 234.

I am grateful that he has come to recognize on behalf the Church he led that Judaism is a legitimate and honored path to be faithful to God and humanity.

Samuel Heilman and Mighait Bilici, Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn From One Another (Oakland: University of California Press, 2024),

Greene’s scholastic series is a wonderful way to engage young readers.

Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz (Teneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025).

Jews have a particular memory of the Carter years. But our recollections may be at odds with the evidence.