Marcia Gay Harden: Advocating for women’s brain health
Marilyn Lazar interviews Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden about her memoir The Seasons of my Mother.
A brief history of mankind
Smart, readable and engaging, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind seems a perfect product of its day. It is not, however, a book for the ages.
Children’s book tells true tale of Holocaust survival
Julie Kirsh reviews The Promise by Pnina Bat Zvi and Margie Wolfe.
Vine Awards celebrate Canadian Jewish literature
Four authors are each going home $10,000 richer after the annual Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature were handed out on Oct. 11 in downtown Toronto.
The similarities between Jewish and Christian biblical commentaries
Martin Lockshin reviews Montse Leyra-Curia’s In Hebreo: The Victorine Exegesis of the Bible in the Light of its Northern French Jewish Sources.
Vine Awards winners announced
Laurie Gelman is among the winners announced today.
Dr. Gabor Maté: On drug addiction and its treatment
Lauren Kramer interviews Dr. Gabor Maté on the tenth anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.
Teaching Hebrew with humour
Hilarious Hebrew, by Yael Breuer and Eyal Shavit, and illustrated by Aubrey Smith, uses English phrases containing words and names, to teach the reader Hebrew words.
Novel combines legal drama and historical fiction
Mordechai Ben-Dat reviews The Girl From Berlin by Ronald H. Balson.
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.
