A Rabbi’s Take on ‘Harry Potter’
By Rebecca Rosenthal (Kveller via JTA) — This summer, as I put my 8-year-old on the bus to sleepaway camp, he turned to his friend…
Literature
7 books to make your summer more summery — and Jewy, too
By Victor Wishna (JTA) — Summer’s here, and whether from the heat or the humidity or the harrowing election cycle, we bet you could use…
Book Review by Rabbi Rachel Esserman: The joys and frustrations of being a parent
By: Rabbi Rachel Esserman (JTA coop) – If you search for “parenting books” on Amazon.com, 186,916 book suggestions appear. The works range from those that…
op/ed: How Elie Wiesel inspired the Free Soviet Jewry movement
By Glenn Richter (JTA) — On my bookshelves there are two rows of volumes on the Soviet Jewry movement. Squeezed in among the tomes is…
Elie Wiesel gave the Holocaust a face and the world a conscience
By Sarah Wildman WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate who became a leading icon of Holocaust remembrance and a global…