Book review
'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review
From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.
'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review
Inside Israel’s secret operation to turn Hezbollah’s beepers into bombs - exclusive
Inside Jerusalem’s 1948 siege through the eyes of a child who survived the Old City’s fall
'All Afternoon': Feminism comes to River Ridge - book review
Kleinman notes in her novel 'All Afternoon,' set in 1978, that feminism was “slow in coming” to the fictional New Jersey town of River Ridge.
Berliners are coming to terms with their past - book review
The 'desire to look away, to pretend ignorance, to be wilfully oblivious, must have been the norm.'
New books by Jewish authors revisit the rules of protest in a polarized era - opinion
A new mini-genre of “how-to” books about dissent and activism has emerged, drawing lessons from past protests.
'The Handover': The ABCs of nursing, with a Jewish twist - reivew
Author Tilda Shalof reflects on her decades of hospital-based work in Canada, and how Jewish humor and its paradoxical mix of tragedy and comedy mirrors a shift nurse’s daily experience.
'Last Letters from Heroes of the October 7th War': Nobody taught them how to do this - review
The book is a portrait of those who looked directly at the possibility of dying and wrote about it, not necessarily a portrait of everyone who went in.
‘The Jewish Revolt: A Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition’ turns memory into witness - review
Auerbach arrived in Warsaw in 1933 as a journalist and has dedicated her life to remembering Holocaust victims.
'The Arab Case for Israel': Explaining the conflict between Jews and Arabs - review
The Arab Case for Israel is the book that I would recommend above all others for anyone who sincerely wants to understand the entrenched conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
What Bill Clinton, Netanyahu, McDonald’s and Starbucks reveal about crisis leadership
In Crisis Management, one of Israel’s best-known crisis advisers argues that the right response depends on the leader, the moment, and the nerve to act before the room spins out of control.
'The Road to October 7': The long centuries of hatred that led to Hamas’s attack - review
This review of The Road to October 7 follows an interview with its author published in the Magazine earlier this month.
'Stay Alive': A personal story of anti-Nazi Germans - review
Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.
