book review

'Risks and Returns': How the king of bankruptcy, Wilbur Ross Jr., got to the top

Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life explains how the king of bankruptcy Wilbur Ross Jr. got to the top and stayed there.

By JOSEPH SCUTTS
05/01/2025

'Melting Point': Showing the dilemmas and struggles of Diaspora Jewry

A descendant of hassidim and Zionist activists, Cockerell writes compellingly about our people’s wanderings, the need for a Jewish homeland, and her family’s fight to create it.

By GIDEON SYLVESTER
04/01/2025

'Iran's Ministry of Intelligence': A CIA analyst's look at Iranian intelligence

"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than a Shi’ite one."

By COLIN SHINDLER
04/01/2025

'Giant Love': Shedding light on Edna Ferber and the making of 'Giant'

As Edna Ferber’s popularity has waned over the years, Julie Gilbert hopes to reintroduce the first Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner and “put her at the center of 20th-century women writers.”

By GEORGE MEDOVOY
30/12/2024

'Uncovered': Examining Halacha through a female lens

Each of its nine chapters includes source material from biblical verses, Talmudic discussions, and classical and contemporary responsa, in Hebrew/Aramaic and English, presented chronologically. 

Nexus: Analyzing Yuval Noah Harari's take on AI

"The problem, Harari argues, is not necessarily information itself. The problem is perhaps that we have been asking the wrong questions."

By SHLOMO MAITAL
15/12/2024

'This is their song too': A look at Phish and their Jewish fans

The book, clearly written for a very narrow audience of Jewish fans – many have seen several hundred shows – details every possible point of connection between Phish and Judaism.

By HOWARD BLAS
15/12/2024

'Jerusalem That Once Was': An architect's look at the history of Israel's capital

A new book by famed architect and former Jerusalemite David Kroyanker shines a penetrative loving light on the capital’s fading beauty.

08/12/2024
Albert Einstein

What did Einstein think of Zionism, Jewish nationalism?

Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.

'This Is Not a Cholent': Stories of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa

"This Is Not a Cholent" contributes to the history and legacy of these refugees and these communities’ cultural and emotional experiences. 

By LEAH MEDIN
30/11/2024
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