02
Jul
Book Review | The Forgotten Bond Between Teddy and the Tribe
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times.
19
Jun
Book Review | A Golden Age Seen Through Its Icons
Sip it slowly, and live or relive this golden age—an era giddy with hope, a time of light.
10
Jun
Book Review | Everything Matters: A Surprising Take on Spirituality, Ethics and Daily Life
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By
Jack Reimer
I came away feeling that this book ought to be read by all kinds of Jews.
07
Apr
Book Review | Israel Doesn’t Fit Your Frameworks
Is it possible to be evenhanded in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Hamas war?
07
Apr
Book Review | It’s All Happened Here
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions.
26
Mar
Book Review | The Colorful Crew Who Unlocked the Past
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By
Robert Alter
“It is clearly not a flawless book, but it is definitely a good read.”
23
Jan
Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right.
23
Jan
Book Review | A Tale of Dueling Abrahams
Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham.
23
Jan
Book Review | Jews at the End of the World
Families, cities and planets are “atomized,” seemingly beyond redemption, in this hellscape of a novel.
09
Dec
Book Review | The Failure of Aryan Physics
The spiraling arms race of the Cold War was thus set off by the bomb that German physicists recognized was beyond their reach.
04
Dec
Book Review | A Rebbe with a Fiddle and No Followers
“There is much to be charmed by in this novel and even more to learn from it.”
08
Oct
Book Review | With Critics Like These, Israel Will Be Fine
The irony of both books is that they replicate the intellectual sins they ascribe to Zionists—one-sided descriptions of Israeli actions, lack of self-criticism, and suffocating certainty.