Books The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievementsBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
BooksThe Thinking Heart review: ‘David Grossman’s dream for Israel omits certain details’The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemiesBy David Herman2 min read
IsraelOver 1,000 authors including Sally Rooney sign ‘discriminatory’ boycott letterUK Lawyers for Israel claimed similar anti-Israel boycotts have faced legal actionBy Imogen Garfinkel2 min read
Books By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend diesBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
Books The feted scholar who fears for Israel’s soulEven if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vitalBy Felix Pope2 min read
Books‘My fiction shows the truth of what’s going on in northern Israel’Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel DirtBy Natalie Goldwater3 min read
SchoolsGaza ‘military jihadism’ is justified, says GCSE school textbookPublisher withdraws 'extremely disturbing' religious studies textbook, which has been in use for five yearsBy Jane Prinsley3 min read
‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century ConstantinopleBy Jennifer Lipman4 min read||October 8, 2024 16:26
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||October 2, 2024 10:08
The 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||September 30, 2024 11:40
The man who brought high fashion to New YorkJewish businessman Henri Bendel rose from running a plantation store in the deep south to becoming a Manhattan retail kingBy Melanie Abrams 6 min read||September 30, 2024 10:31
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||September 26, 2024 09:58
Placeholders review: An Irish-Jewish romance marred by loss and longingJames Roseman’s debut novel explores American Jewish identity and griefBy Eliana Jordan3 min read||September 25, 2024 14:50
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||September 20, 2024 11:44
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||September 20, 2024 11:25
Booker 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||September 17, 2024 15:27
