Books The Gates of Gaza review: ‘why Israel is where it is’This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish stateBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
HealthThe Vagina Business: Taking the stigma out of women’s healthMarina Gerner’s new book uncovers myriad health innovations for women, offering eye-opening solutions to the ways our medical system snubs female painBy Elisa Bray8 min read
Books The Hebrew Teacher review: ‘big questions about the future of Israel’Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish stateBy David Herman2 min read
BooksPlaceholders review: An Irish-Jewish romance marred by loss and longingJames Roseman’s debut novel explores American Jewish identity and griefBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
Books No Road Leading Back review: ‘hell and real heroism’This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the HolocaustBy David Herman2 min read
Books Elaine review: ‘Jew lite-ville’Despite its plethora of Yiddishe names, it is difficult to see Self’s latest novel as a reckoning with his Jewish identity and the writing is also a long way from the rhythms of Bellow, Roth and Nicole KraussBy David Herman2 min read
Booker PrizeBooker Prize 2024 shortlist includes three Jewish authorsHalf of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize historyBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
Books The Shapiro Family review: ‘portraits of a forgotten dynasty’These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now rememberBy Jenni Frazer2 min read
Books Goodbye to Russia review: ‘the journalists who don’t make old bones’This is an important book about the plight of reporters and activists, many of them Jewish, under PutinBy Colin Shindler2 min read
Children's booksJC2’s guide to the best new books for childrenFrom black and Jewish alliance in a world of white-only tennis tournaments and clubs to a modern midrash about Eden, we select the most exciting fiction and non-fiction for kidsBy Angela Kiverstein1 min read
Books Jewish Nonagenarians review: ‘triumph over adversity’The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinatingBy David Herman2 min read
Books An Absence of Cousins review: ‘it does Segal a disservice’These literary short stories skewer the pretensions of the elite excruciatingly well, but they also feel terribly datedBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read
Books I Seek a Kind Person review: ‘the British small ads that saved Jews from the Nazis’Guardian journalist Julian Borger has written an emotionally disturbing family memoir that sets out some of the facts and figures of the Shoah in absorbing displayBy Jenni Frazer3 min read
Books Remembering the golden age of the New York Jewish intellectual maleI talk to the author of a new book about a group of mid-century Jewish writers who hold a mystique to this dayBy David Cohen4 min read
Books The Writers’ Castle review: ‘gripping portrait of the reporters at Nuremberg’This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trialsBy Robert Low2 min read
BooksHitler’s People review: ‘an important book’Sobering and incisive commentary on the men who persuaded ordinary Germans to become mass murderersBy Colin Shindler2 min read
