Literature

'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review

The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.

|ByRAFFI CROUSE
Rare medieval Sefardi Torah scroll from the late 13th or early 14th century on display at ANU, Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.
Kim Philby, 1955

'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review

From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.

|ByCOLIN SHINDLER
CHABAD ‘SHLUCHIM’ gather in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, New York, in 2022.

'Engaging the Essence': The Lubavitcher Rebbe as philosopher - review

While the Rebbe did not write a system, he spoke to occasions for 40 years. Bronstein anchors the structure of the Rebbe’s talks in his first discourse of 1951.

|ByNOAH ROTHSTEIN
The four finalists for the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize are, from left, Shaul Kelner, Amir Tibon, Jordan Salama and Laura Hobson Faure.

Sami Rohr Prize 2026 shortlist highlights family survival and Jewish history

The annual award — which alternates each year between works of fiction and nonfiction and which honors emerging Jewish writers — is considered one of the most prominent awards in Jewish literature.

|ByLISA KEYS/JTA

Israeli writers sign petition against plans to transfer National Library authority to Edu. Ministry

The amendment impacting the library is expected to allow the ministry to control appointments to the library board, as well as to increase "transparency and public oversight" of the institution.

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An architectural rendering of the new National Library of Israel’s main reading room. (© Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect)

The timeless debate

The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras

FEBRUARY 24, 2023ByNEVILLE TELLER
RABBI ARYEH SPERO of the National Conference of Jewish Affairs debates Medea Benjamin of Code Pink in Washington, in 2019.

Iranian foundation offers land to Salman Rushdie's attacker - state media

Salman Rushdie was attacked by an American Muslim at a literary event in the summer, losing an eye and the use of one hand.

FEBRUARY 21, 2023ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL, REUTERS
Author Salman Rushdie gestures during a news conference before the presentation of his latest book 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights' at the Niemeyer Center in Aviles, northern Spain, October 7, 2015.

Israel's oldest English theater group to perform 'The Wizard of Oz'

Beginning February 23 and throughout March, LOGON will be staging The Wizard of Oz in Eshkol, Ashkelon, Jerusalem, Netanya, Ra’anana, Givatayim, Beit Shemesh, Modi’in, Rehovot and Beersheba.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByPATRICIA GOLAN
LEXI LEITNER as the Scarecrow, Eric Isaacson as the Cowardly Lion, Ed Spitz as the Tin Man and Aida Hasson as Dorothy in LOGON’s upcoming production of ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

Israeli entrepreneur sheds light on connection between innovation and ‘tikkun olam’ in Thailand

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

David Grossman receives major international cultural prizes

FEBRUARY 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DAVID GROSSMAN faces the concept of death in every one of his books.

A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.

FEBRUARY 6, 2023ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Shtetl in Poland 370

National Library of Argentina showcases Borges’ love for Israel and Judaism

JANUARY 31, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
German Alvarez, Investigator of the Borgean funds recovery program, Prof. Ruth Fain, head of the department Latin American studies, the HebreU, Eyal Sela, Ambassador of Israel to Argentina, Laura Rosarto, Investigator of the Borgean funds recovery program, Amital Perry, head of public diplomacy

Int'l Winnie the Pooh Day: How do stuffed toys aid early development?

Winnie the Pooh Day is celebrated every year on January 18, the birthday of the British author A.A. Milne (1882-1956), who wrote the book.

JANUARY 17, 2023ByMOSHE COHEN/MAARIV
Pooh with Tigger and Eeyore at the Shanghai Disney Resort in 2019.

Jewish American poet Naomi Replansky dies at 104

Replansky was described as "an intensely political poet, appalled by the cruelty, greed, and corruption of the masters of nations and corporations."

JANUARY 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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