Book review
'Last Letters from Heroes of the October 7th War': Nobody taught them how to do this - review
The book is a portrait of those who looked directly at the possibility of dying and wrote about it, not necessarily a portrait of everyone who went in.
‘The Jewish Revolt: A Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition’ turns memory into witness - review
'The Arab Case for Israel': Explaining the conflict between Jews and Arabs - review
What Bill Clinton, Netanyahu, McDonald’s and Starbucks reveal about crisis leadership
'Our Nazi': The story of a Nazi who lived in Chicago for three decades - review
Reinhold Kulle was considered an outstanding school custodian, beloved and respected by the staff and students of Oak Park and River Forest High School.
'Risks and Returns': How the king of bankruptcy, Wilbur Ross Jr., got to the top - review
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.
'Melting Point': Showing the dilemmas and struggles of Diaspora Jewry - review
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.
'Iran's Ministry of Intelligence': A CIA analyst's look at Iranian intelligence - review
"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than a Shi’ite one."
'Giant Love': Shedding light on Edna Ferber and the making of 'Giant' - review
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.”
'Uncovered': Examining Halacha through a female lens - review
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 - review
"The problem, Harari argues, is not necessarily information itself. The problem is perhaps that we have been asking the wrong questions."
'This is their song too': A look at Phish and their Jewish fans - review
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.
'Jerusalem That Once Was': An architect's look at the history of Israel's capital - review
A new book by famed architect and former Jerusalemite David Kroyanker shines a penetrative loving light on the capital’s fading beauty.
What did Einstein think of Zionism, Jewish nationalism? - review
Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.
