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January 12, 2020 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
In receiving this book, it brought back to me two issues. [Read more]
November 8, 2019 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
The publisher introduces the novel by “Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. [Read more]
August 22, 2019 by Aviva Kipen
For millennia unembroidered biblical and post-biblical stories were elaborated and embellished in the oral tradition that was finally committed to writing following the destruction of the Second Temple. [Read more]
July 11, 2019 by Geoffrey Zygier
In The Collaborator, her first book in almost a decade, noted Australian writer Diane Armstrong weaves together two interconnected tales. One is her interpretation of a true story, a reworking of an extremely controversial and still unresolved episode from the Holocaust. [Read more]
July 11, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
The Bible is punctuated by the tussle between the Almighty and the false gods. [Read more]