In Becoming Godly – Integrating Torah and Psychology to Guide us in Emulating Hashem (Mosaica Press), Rabbi Dr. Yosef Sokol, ...
Based on a viral tweet the author sent early into the Israel-Gaza war, the book maligns Western liberalism for, in El Akkad’s ...
Like most rabbis, Rabbi Price held that it is appropriate to convert non-Jewish spouses, even if they do not intend to ...
A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...
Omar El Akkad, author of 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,' says it's 'difficult to think in celebratory ...
Podcast: Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, Chabad Shliach in Yorba Linda, California, speaks about his latest book and what he would like ...
Rabbi David Samson: "Just as a person can’t pick up a scalpel and become a brain surgeon without years of preparation, a ...
Celebrate a century of Jewish storytelling with free books, bagels and literary happenings on the Lower East Side.

A New Jewish Plotline

As Peter Beinart points out in his recent book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, “there are still fewer Jews alive ...
Rob Kutner, who has written for “The Daily Show” and “Conan,” will stop in the Bay Area to share his comedic take on Jewish ...
The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
The classic example of Jewish ethics vs. “the law of the Torah” is the story of Shimon ben Shetach in the Palestinian Talmud Baba Metzia 2:5. Simeon ben Shetach, circa 140-60 BCE, was a Pharisee ...