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New book 'Fairy Lights in God’s Backyard' is messy, beautiful, and full of light - review

'Fairy Lights in God’s Backyard: A Jerusalem Love Story' is about love, loss, friendship, motherhood, faith, trauma, survival, and the peculiar magic of ordinary life in Jerusalem.

|ByMARION FISCHEL
CITY OF CONTRASTS: Sarah Tuttle-Singer walks the Old City streets next to an Arab Muslim woman.
Sally Rooney attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Irish author Sally Rooney's books no longer sold in UK over support for banned Palestine Action

Palestine Action, which had increasingly targeted Israel-linked defense companies, was banned shortly after a June 2025 break-in at the Royal Air Force's Brize Norton base.

|ByREUTERS
ADITAL ZU ARETZ: “I live in two worlds: the world of pain and the world of joy.’

The colors she lives by: How one mother is keeping her son's memory alive after October 7

After son Ilai Baram was murdered near Nova, Adital Zu Aretz turned to painting. Through two books, she shares how she lives with loss and keep his memory present.

|ByALAN ROSENBAUM
London Mayoral Candidate Jeffrey Archer addresses Conservative delegates at the hustings in London's Methodist Hall, September 14, 1999.

Bestselling British author, former politician jailed for perjury, Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

Archer sold over 300 million copies worldwide and was known for pacy thrillers like his 1976 debut Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less and 1979's Kane & Abel.

|ByREUTERS

Author and Holocaust survivor Peggy Parnass dies at 97 in Hamburg

Parnass was an icon of Hamburg's leftist scene, famous for her court reports and activism.

MARCH 16, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Author and Holocaust survivor Peggy Parnass dies at 97 in Hamburg.