Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with a lot of practice. But…
Literature
13 Books to Gift Yourself or Someone Else This Hanukkah
By Emily Burack (Kveller via JTA) — A book is the best present — even if it is a present to yourself. That’s why they…
New documentary series explores centuries of Russian Jewish life
By Ben Harris In 1894, a Jewish military officer in France, Alfred Dreyfus, was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason for allegedly passing state secrets…
This college student created a way for nonbinary people to speak Hebrew
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Some college students who think about becoming rabbis aren’t sure whether they will want to work in a synagogue or…
Deborah Lipstadt wrote a book on anti-Semitism. Then Pittsburgh happened.
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — The advance copies of Deborah Lipstadt’s new book, “Antisemitism Here and Now,” display a cover photo of white…