Book review

'The Sacrificial Service': Leviticus has been mistranslated for centuries - review

The book grew out of courses the author taught, and covers Leviticus’ chapters 1 through 10. 

Reading a torah scroll
Rabbi Danny Tropper, founder of Gesher.

'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review

Title page of first edition of the Zohar, Mantua, 1558. (Photos: Wikimedia Commons)

'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review

MOSSAD OPERATIVE ‘Adam Feyn,’ who recently published a book in Hebrew called ‘Hoda’ah Goralit’ (Fateful Message), exploring the Hezbollah beeper operation, provides his first English-language interview about it to ‘The Jerusalem Post.’

Inside Israel’s secret operation to turn Hezbollah’s beepers into bombs - exclusive


'A Winning Move': Spy thriller weaves personal drama into Yom Kippur War history - review

"A further nail-biting episode follows as the Mossad tries to discover the date on which Sadat’s attack is planned to take place."

DAVID RUBINGER’S iconic photo of the IDF paratroopers at the Kotel during the Six Day War in 1967.

Zionism rejected: Prominent US columnist Peter Beinart justifies Hamas - review

In his book, Beinart, a prominent left-wing American columnist, journalist, and political commentator, calls to reimagine Zionism.

 Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 17, 2023.

'Matchmaker Matchmaker': Relationship wisdom to find a love that lasts - review

Azeela Ben Shalom uses 11 client stories to share tips and dating advice.

  ALEEZA BEN SHALOM presents  her Netflix program, ‘Jewish  Matchmaking.’

'The Holy and the Broken': A powerful case for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence - review

Written in an engaging style, a balance of informative and conversational, The Holy and the Broken leaves the reader with much food for thought.

 PALESTINIANS AND  Israelis attend a  joint ceremony for  bereaved families  on Remembrance  Day, organized by  Combatants for Peace  and the Israeli-Palestinian  Bereaved Families for  Peace, in Tel Aviv, in April  2023.

'The Amazing Eleven': Tracing relationships through generations - review

The author, Nancy Klein enhances her unique family story with vivid character sketches and well-remembered family incidents.

  The Amazing Eleven: The Story of the Isaacs Siblings from Cincinnati.

'Making the Weather': The six movers and shakers in British politics - review

The author, Vernon Bogdanor, a respected professor of government, argues that the influence of these six was based on being good communicators and “important teachers.” 

 WINSTON CHURCHILL (R) with his brother John and their American-born British socialite mother, Jeanette ‘Jennie’ Jerome, aka Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, in 1889.

'Saints and Liars': A look at those who offered aid to persecuted Jews in WWII - review

In her book 'Saints and Liars,' Deborah Dwork presents micro-histories of activities in Prague, Vilna, Shanghai, Marseilles, and Lisbon.

 HARRY WEINSAFT of the JDC gives food to three-year-old Renati Rulhater, a Jewish DP in Vienna, Austria. The campaign to distribute food to needy refugees in Vienna was sponsored by the Jewish Joint Welfare Association of Vienna in conjunction with the JDC.

'Contemporary Humanistic Judaism': The contemporary movement of the Jewish world - review

Our Judaism is broadly defined as the collective historical experience of the Jewish people – a widely and wildly diverse experience that has helped foster our extraordinary resilience.

 RELIGIOUS AND secular Jews gather on Tisha B’Av outside Independence Hall in Tel Aviv to hear the annual reading of Eicha, the Book of Lamentations, last year.

'If It Takes a Thousand Years': A manual on how to defeat jihadists - review

The jihadist enemy uses the organs of American democracy to subvert it from within, and what the US needs to do to protect itself.

 The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group holds a rally in Gaza to commemorate armed commanders and operatives killed by Israel in the past five-day fighting, in Gaza City, May 19, 2023.

'Our Nazi': The story of a Nazi who lived in Chicago for three decades - review

Reinhold Kulle was considered an outstanding school custodian, beloved and respected by the staff and students of Oak Park and River Forest High School.

 AN IDEOLOGICAL battle is also being waged. Pictured: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag, 1941.