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Aspire Higher Especially during the COVID coaster

Lisa Ellen Niver November 4, 2021

Seeing Through the Eyes of a Traveling Truth-Teller

Jonathan Kirsch October 28, 2021

As we find out in his new book, “The Will to See: Dispatches From a World of Misery and Hope”, Lévy has put himself in harm’s way in the dangerous and troubled places that he writes about, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

In His New Book, David Steinberg Talks Funny Business

Jonathan Kirsch October 21, 2021

“Inside Comedy” comes at a fraught moment in American comedy, but Steinberg helps us put the latest hot topic – Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” – into its historical context.

The Disturbing Realization that “People Love Dead Jews”

Jonathan Kirsch September 23, 2021

Horn refers to the phenomenon that she describes and debunks so powerfully in “People Love Dead Jews” as “gas-lighting about the Jewish historical past and present,” and she insists on telling the truth.

The “Many Faces” of the Jewish Immigrant Experience

Jonathan Kirsch September 9, 2021

Persoff charts his metamorphosis from a greenhorn into an American — and from an aspiring engineer into an accomplished actor—with the evocative scene-setting and story-telling that fleshes out the saga of the Jewish immigrant experience in America.

The Shoah and the Struggle for Beauty

Jonathan Kirsch September 4, 2021

“After: The Obligation of Beauty” by Mindy Weisel is a testament to the artist’s lifelong struggle to make sense of the Shoah and, especially, the ordeal that her parents survived in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.