Both “Suspended by No String” and Himmelman’s music are very innately Jewish, and he’s been writing nonstop on his Substack about Israel and Judaism since Oct. 7.
Many years ago, Jack Daniel’s was not the most popular Tennessee whiskey.
“Olive Days” is a brilliant exploration of the lasting power of Jewishness, of Jewishness that’s not dependent on belief.
A review of “Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History” (Penguin/Thesis)
In Maxim D. Shrayer’s new book, Shrayer counts himself among those who have had the blessing or curse of being forced to trade one identity for another.
In Janice Weizman’s novel, “Our Little Histories,” a short, cryptic Yiddish poem continues to intrigue and puzzle members of one far-flung Jewish family for more than 150 years.
A review of Jay Prosser’s new memoir, “Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, A Son Returns.”
“A country that went to sleep on Oct. 6 concerned with domestic controversies woke up the next day to an unprecedented war.”
The title may be “This Is Not a Cholent,” but symbolically, the book is a proverbial response to anyone who has ever met an out-of-the-box Jew, especially someone who wasn’t Ashkenazi.
Lane’s life reads like a fairy tale, complete with a cruel stepmother who made her a servant from a young age.
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