For God’s Sake…
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
February 26, 2016
There is a bookshelf in my study that I have nicknamed “Amsterdam.”
Category
book review
The lure, history and humor of the Catskills
Jonathan Kirsch
December 9, 2015
The Catskill Mountains are, of course, a fact of geology located northwest of New York City.
Tales of Cuba, up close and personal
Jonathan Kirsch
December 3, 2015
Leila Segal is a woman of many gifts and passions.
‘Rabbi-Averse’ biographer takes on rabbi who works with Evangelicals
Jonathan Kirsch
November 19, 2015
“I should say, right off, that I am not generally an admirer of rabbis,” journalist Zev Chafets writes in “The Bridge Builder: The Life and Continuing Legacy of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, An Authorized Biography” (Sentinel).
For Chanukah, books that bind us
Jonathan Kirsch
November 13, 2015
Giving a book as a Chanukah gift is a fine, old Jewish tradition, although nowadays books often take the form of a Kindle download or a digital gift certificate from Amazon rather than a festively wrapped hardcover.
Ron Wolfson: A precious gift from his Zayde and Bubbe
Jonathan Kirsch
October 21, 2015
The Jewish community in Southern California is richly blessed with high-profile pulpit rabbis, and we tend to turn to these influential women and men when we want to know about Jewish identity and practice.
A Gehry biography with in-depth detail, but lacking in passion
Jewish Journal
October 8, 2015
I generally approach a new biography by attempting to shut out competing noise.
How Israel’s desert became a fecund source of water
Jonathan Kirsch
September 25, 2015
“Making the desert bloom” is one of the stirring and enduring tropes of Zionist history.
The Holocaust in a new and revelatory light
Jonathan Kirsch
September 9, 2015
Scholars are notoriously critical and even cranky readers, especially when it comes to the Holocaust.
A story of love and disappointment ,and the life of artist Camille Pissaro
Jewish Journal
September 2, 2015
Alice Hoffman’s sentences possess a musical cadence that demand to be read aloud like poetry, which I often did with great pleasure as I read “The Marriage of Opposites” (Simon and Schuster).
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