Books & Literature
How marvelous to be British
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War, by Ian Buruma, Penguin Press, 305 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
A Jew’s life without children
The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness, by Elliot Jager, Toby Press, 189 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
A warrior for justice
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, Dey St., 227 pages,...
Esther’s own story
Esther, by Rebecca Kanner, Howard Books, 380 pages, $22.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If the Bible’s Book of Esther were...
A ‘16-piece dessert of a book’
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Perhaps Joseph Skibell’s unusual approach to life’s occurrences is related to his family’s unusual pronunciation of...
Discovering Nasielsk
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film, by Glenn Kurtz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...
Death of the peace process
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, by Dan Ephron, Norton, 336 pages, $27.95...
U.S. presidents and Israel
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, by Dennis Ross, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 474 pages, $30...
Kushner’s uplifting message
Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned about Life, by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Knopf, 171 pages, $23.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
'The Ambassador': A fanciful action adventure
The Ambassador, by Yehuda Avner and Matt Rees, Toby Press, 339 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER One of Jewish...
