‘Inside’ Jessi Klein: From lingerie to baby drool
Kylie Ora Lobell
August 24, 2016
In Jessi Klein’s eyes, there are two kinds of women: Those who are poodles and those who are wolves.
Category
Books
The story of a Jewish enclave in the Soviet Union
Jonathan Kirsch
August 17, 2016
Who can tell the things that befell us in Birobidzhan?
Sex with Jews is fun — just ask Kellen Kaiser
Eitan Arom
August 4, 2016
When she started writing in about 2005, Kellen Kaiser had planned to call her book “How to Plan a Gay Kosher Wedding for 250.”
The Jewish con man who scammed Hitler
Avishay Artsy
August 4, 2016
\”A con man with a heart of gold.” That’s how Variety described Freeman Bernstein in his obituary.
Musings and insight on the afterlife
Jonathan Kirsch
August 3, 2016
There’s nothing surprising about a man or woman who muses about death in the later years of life.
Writer-director talks about adapting Roth’s ‘Indignation’
Jonathan Kirsch
July 27, 2016
“Indignation,” the new movie based on a novel by the immortal Philip Roth, opens with a skirmish in Korea in 1951 and ends with a scene so shocking that I cannot reveal it here, although readers of the book will know what’s coming.
Murder and the nuance of language
Jonathan Kirsch
July 14, 2016
A lawyerly question provides the starting point for a wholly remarkable new book by Philippe Sands, “East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ ” (Knopf).
Half-Jews outlast Nazi regime in ‘The Kaminsky Cure’
Jewish Journal
June 22, 2016
It is to the great credit of Christopher New, the author of the “The Kaminsky Cure” (Delphinium Books), that one is able to laugh, if not out loud, at least to smile sadly, while utterly immersed in a story that takes place in Europe during the most shameful time in our not-so-distant history.
Adopting a new view of faith and family
Jonathan Kirsch
June 9, 2016
Let’s get one thing out of the way — yes, Susan Silverman is the sister of actors and comedians Sarah Silverman and Laura Silverman.
Dust off your summer reading glasses
Jonathan Kirsch
June 2, 2016
Politics is dominating not only headlines, but bookstores, as well, and some of the most intriguing author events in early summer will provide yet more opportunity to agonize over Trump, Sanders and Clinton.
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