Books & Literature
What’s the right basis of living?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Moshe Koppel makes a provocative argument for the societal value of religion and religious communities, even...
Multigenerational tale of love and despair
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Lauren Fox's sad, engaging Send for Me deftly reverses familiar Shoah stories. Fox writes from the...
‘Sapiens’ is an illustrated history of humankind
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1), by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave, Harper...
Heated debate requires sensible approach
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Combatting anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses requires distinguishing protected hateful free speech from illegal behavior and...
Prince and the Jews
By STEPHEN SILVER (JTA) — In the late 1960s, when Neal Karlen was not even 10 years old, he would...
Onset of mental illness strains a marriage
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Bipolar disorder isn't funny — not for those afflicted by it nor for those around the...
Truth in fiction?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Eshkol Nevo's writer protagonist has been diagnosed as suffering from dysthymia, but that feeling of chronic...
An evolution in kosher cookbooks
AJW Staff Report In explaining how to use his new cookbook, award-winning food writer Michael Aaron Gardiner points out: "My...
How the Nazis took over Germany
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Even the Nazis were surprised at how quickly and easily they took over Germany. In Hitler’s...
Stitching up the Purim story
Reviewed by LISA WALKER Growing up as a young Jewish girl in the 1970s, I looked forward to the Purim...
