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REVIEWS

A Universe of Sufficient Size: a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

At the first Limmud-Oz I gave a presentation on Holocaust Novels: Fact from Fiction. It posed the possibility that some holocaust novels appear so real and some true stories seem to be pieces of fiction. [Read more]

Present Tense by Natalie Conyer: a book review by Geoffrey Zygier

In Bereishit, the first reading of the Torah, Eve picks a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, despite the Almighty’s specific prohibition. [Read more]

Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death – a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

In receiving this book, it brought back to me two issues. [Read more]

Kaddish.com: book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

The publisher introduces the novel by “Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. [Read more]

Lux: a book review 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]

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