Books

'Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions': Jerusalem and its names - review

The book offers a perspective on how language itself shapes the identity, and holiness of Jerusalem.

JULY 12, 2026|ByBEN SOLOMON

A SECTION of what is believed to be the world’s ‘Foundation Stone,’ currently under the Golden Dome.

The students renovate the boxes and refill them with books

The unique book project created for the Israel National Trail

Thanks to a hiker who missed reading something while walking the entire Israel National Trail, a nationwide initiative of dozens of free libraries along the national trail was born.

JULY 6, 2026|ByZIV REINSTEIN

Rare medieval Sefardi Torah scroll from the late 13th or early 14th century on display at ANU, Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.

'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review

The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.

JULY 5, 2026|ByRAFFI CROUSE

'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review

From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.

JULY 5, 2026|ByCOLIN SHINDLER

Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review

Hitler and his minions combined hatred of Jews as racial aliens polluting German culture with a crusade against 'Judeo-Bolshevism,' allegedly poised to spread Soviet-style Communism across the world

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Jerusalem highlights: September 26 – October 2

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

SEPTEMBER 27, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Behind the bylines: Ethan Freedman - interview

An unconventional journalist capturing the human condition.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2025ByAARON REICH

Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dad

Sam Sussman’s debut novel, “Boy from the North Country,” revolves around a mystery: Was Bob Dylan, the singer and Nobel laureate, the narrator’s father?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA