Book review
'American Maccabee': American Jewry and antisemitism during the days of Teddy Roosevelt - review
American Maccabee provides an informative and nuanced analysis of Theodore Roosevelt’s respect for Jews and his handling of a series of challenges that affected them.
'From Eden to Exodus': Learning the meaning of Hebrew words - review
'The Great Betrayal': Revolutions rarely succeed in the first attempt - review
'The Triumph of Life': Reimagining the relationship between God and humanity - review
'The Jews, 5,000 Years and Counting:' Jewish history can be funny - review
The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting achieves an incredible feat: It covers our entire “epic journey through time, space, and guilt” in 224 pages.
'Eminent Jews:' Jewish sensibility at its best - review
In his book Eminent Jews, David Denby provides engaging, informative, insightful, mostly, but not entirely, celebratory biographies of four eminent Jews.
'Israel’s War of Self-Defense': Capturing a nation in despair - book review
Alan Silverstein, a rabbi and PhD in political science, has written a 235-page book addressing every anti-Israel canard.
'When the Stones Speak': Biblical archaeology in the City of David - review
Irrefutable archaeological evidence of Jewish history in Jerusalem annuls UNESCO’s 2016 ruling.
'Conceived in Hope': The stories of biblical women and motherhood - review
'Conceived in Hope' highlights the stories of biblical women and their relationship to mothering.
'The Hamas Intelligence War against Israel': Do terrorists read the 'Post'? - review
The book aims “to describe and analyze the evolution of Hamas’s intelligence warfare,” and does so admirably.
'Yoko: A Biography': Have we underestimated Yoko Ono all along? - review
As more of her albums have been released and the number of art exhibitions has mounted, however, Ono has increasingly been recognized for what one critic called “the breadth, charm, and brilliance."
'Extreme Trauma': Analyzing the horrors and heroism of October 7 - review
In the hands of the right readers, Extreme Trauma can help ensure that the truth of what happened on Oct. 7 is neither distorted nor forgotten.
'On Democracies and Death Cults': Douglas Murray lauds Israel’s youth - review
On Democracies and Death Cults sets out Douglas Murray’s clear-eyed, reasoned, and deeply researched view of the pogrom committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023
'Sons and Daughters': The last great Yiddish novel now available in English - review
An English translation by Rose Waldman of Chaim Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published.
'The Right to Happiness': Moving fiction about Holocaust survivors - review
While they are firmly grounded in the hearts and souls of the survivors and their families, these tales tell a universal story of love and loss that will appeal to any reader.
