Books

Who decided when the third age begins? 7 signs that it's time to listen to the body

There are age-related changes in the body, but many of them can be influenced through proper nutrition, activity, and habits. Dr. Maya Rosman gives some important tips from her new book.

Illustration: The third age.
The Penguin logo is visible on the spines of books displayed on a shelf at Book Passage on November 02, 2021 in Corte Madera, California.

Palestinian history children's book withdrawn from publisher due to editorial disagreements

Author Gil Hoffman stands with his new book, ‘The Blood Libel Machine,’ which argues that the spread of anti-Israel narratives and the surge in global antisemitism were the result of a premeditated information campaign that had been in the works for decades.

Israel must treat the media war as seriously as Iran’s nuclear threat, Gil Hoffman says

Sally Rooney attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Irish author Sally Rooney's books no longer sold in UK over support for banned Palestine Action


'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review

The French have a saying: “Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner” (to understand all is to forgive all). Marc David Baer's work may help many on that journey.

ABRAHAM’S GATE, ‘Sha’ar Avraham’ in Hebrew and ‘Bab Ibrahim’ in Arabic, preserved in Tel Dan, is around 4,000 years old.

'The Jewish March of Folly': Vindicating Zionism while warning the Jewish People - review

Whether or not author Amotz Asa-El agrees with this alternative analysis, or others, he has done such a masterful job of creating and sharpening his historical lens that many now apply it with ease.

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM by David Roberts, 1850. Jewish factions fought each other even as the Romans approached Jerusalem’s walls.

Millions of burnt books show how 'war of endurance' is hurting Ukraine, economy continues to slow

A Russian drone strike on Ranok's warehouse in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on August 1 destroyed about 8 million books, the biggest blow yet to Ukraine's publishing industry during the war.

Books burn at the site of a book warehouse hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.

'Israel on Trial': US Judge Roy K. Altman takes on accusations against the Jewish state - review

A nascent state has to fulfill four requirements: have a permanent population, a defined territory, be governed by a single effective government, and have the capacity to conduct foreign relations.

The author subjects the six major allegations against Israel to scrupulous analysis.

From fake burps to reverse tashlich, new children’s books bring the High Holidays to life

The 2026 High Holiday season brings a new set of Jewish children’s books, with new stories spanning Rosh Hashanah traditions, Yom Kippur apologies and Sukkot celebrations.

New Jewish children's books released for the High Holidays in 2026 include ones about awe, tashlich and apologizing for burping.

AI burns books? Tech giants are buying, shredding books to train smarter chatbots

AI Tech giants have been working on a secret project to buy millions of books and destroy them to feed their new models.

Some of the 5 million books in the NLI collection.

'Reclaiming Redemption Vol. II': Tracing Jewish survival from exile to war - book review

Moshe Taragin’s wartime essays argue that Jewish faith is carried not only through ideas, but through the people whose resilience has preserved it across history.

THE AUTHOR attempts to place today’s challenges within the broader sweep of Jewish history and Torah.

'The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel': Groundbreaking way to explore the Book of Samuel - review

Koren’s new Samuel does more than explain the biblical text. Through archaeology, maps, manuscripts, and photography, it restores the physical world in which the story unfolded.

HANNAH PRESENTS her infant son Samuel to the high priest Eli, painted by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, c. 1665.

PJ Library founder Harold Grinspoon still reinventing himself at 97

Nearly a century after witnessing the Holocaust and rising antisemitism, philanthropist Harold Grinspoon reflects on Jewish resilience, legacy, and the future at age 97.

Harold Grinspoon, who launched PJ Library to bring Jewish children's books into the homes of Jewish families, reads to a group of pajama-clad kids in an undated photograph.

'A Life of the Mind': New biography reexamines the mind of Hannah Arendt - review

Recently discovered archival material and underutilized sources in German to illuminate her experiences and ideas, about antisemitism and Zionism as well as philosophy.

Hannah Arendt in 1958.