Matti Friedman converses with an old spy
Michael Fraiman interviews award-winning author Matti Friedman about his latest non-fiction book, Spies of No Country: Behind Enemy Lines at the Birth of the Israeli Secret Service.
Nazi hunters’ memoir wins top national Jewish book award
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two prominent French Nazi hunters, won the Jewish Book Council’s top national book award yesterday.
Babka basics
An excerpt from The Last Schmaltz: A Very Serious Cookbook by Anthony Rose and Chris Johns.
Excerpt: Friday night Shabbat dinner with Anthony Rose
An excerpt from The Last Schmaltz: A Very Serious Cookbook by Anthony Rose and Chris Johns.
Crowd-sourcing the future of Judaism
Martin Lockshin reviews Tal Keinan’s God is in the Crowd: Twenty-First Century Judaism.
Author searches for connection in his short story collection debut
Mira Sucharov reviews Aaron Kreuter’s debut collection of short stories, You and Me, Belonging.
From the Soviet gulags to sanctuary in Tehran
Mordechai Ben-Dat reviews Kim Dana Kupperman’s Six Thousand Miles to Home.
The storied history of Jewish coffee culture
The vast multiplication of java joints in today’s world is no substitute for the grand tradition of European-inspired coffee houses.
Jewish prayer in a sad and beautiful city
Writing on Water: The Sounds of Jewish Prayer is a meditation on lost culture, on the meaning of music in our lives, and on the unique predicaments of postwar Jewish life in central and eastern Europe.
The ghost in the Nazis’ well-oiled machine
The Ghost Keeper is a very thoughtful book by a very gifted writer.
