Literature
Wine talk: The grape and the word
In the next few months, some books will be published that should be on every wine professional’s and wine lover’s bookshelf.
'Death of a Democracy': Exploring the rise and fall of Weimar Germany - review
'My Other Half': Sex, drugs, rock & roll, philosophy, and cynicism - book review
'A Life of the Mind': New biography reexamines the mind of Hannah Arendt - review
PEN America president resigns after report warns of threats to Jewish, Israeli authors
“It’s the First Amendment that allows all of us to engage in boycotts, not PEN America,” Mengestu told the Atlantic. “PEN America as a free expression organization is supposed to defend that right.
'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.
'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.
'Engaging the Essence': The Lubavitcher Rebbe as philosopher - review
While the Rebbe did not write a system, he spoke to occasions for 40 years. Bronstein anchors the structure of the Rebbe’s talks in his first discourse of 1951.
Sami Rohr Prize 2026 shortlist highlights family survival and Jewish history
The annual award — which alternates each year between works of fiction and nonfiction and which honors emerging Jewish writers — is considered one of the most prominent awards in Jewish literature.
'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.
'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review
From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.
'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review
Introduction to the Zohar explores exile, desire, and repair, presenting the Baal HaSulam’s ladder as a path to inner spiritual transformation.
Italian author Erri De Luca to take part in International Writers Festival in Jerusalem
The festival, held with the support of the Jerusalem Foundation, will bring together prize-winning writers from around the world with leading Israeli authors, poets, journalists, and artists.
'Last Letters from Heroes of the October 7th War': Nobody taught them how to do this - review
The book is a portrait of those who looked directly at the possibility of dying and wrote about it, not necessarily a portrait of everyone who went in.
