Book review

Over 50 years later, Saul Bellow’s Israel observations remain strikingly relevant - review

The book’s enduring relevance has led its publishers, Penguin Random House, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first appearance by reissuing it in 2026.

THEN-ISRAELI AMBASSADOR to the US, Yitzhak Rabin, and his wife Leah mingle with prime minister Golda Meir and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, in Washington, 1973 – two years before Saul Bellow visited Israel.
CAR GRAVEYARD at Tekuma.

‘To laugh and cry’: New book combines biblical teachings with personal Oct. 7 reflections - review

HANSEN HOUSE in 1887 when it was still known in German as Jesus’s Help. The vineyard in the front was planted before the building was completed.

'My Wanderings in the Gardens': Hansen House, a Jerusalem architectural and cultural gem - review

GENIE AND Michael Milgrom pose in their home in Miami.

'Voices From The Last Days Of Freedom': Showcasing the pre-communist Cuba we lost - review


'Death of a Democracy': Exploring the rise and fall of Weimar Germany - review

Victor Sebestyen has painted a vivid picture of the life and eventual death of Weimar Germany, telling the painful story of Germany between 1918 and 1933.

WEIMAR GERMANY: DEATH OF A DEMOCRACY by Victor Sebestyen

'Who Is American?' Exploring the complicated history of Jewish citizenship in the US - review

In Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship, Prof. Lila Corwin Berman explores the intertwined, controversial issues surrounding the history of Jewish citizenship in the US.

WHO IS AN AMERICAN? BELONGING AND THE QUESTION OF JEWISH CITIZENSHIP By Lila Corwin Berman

From Saul's failure to David's reckoning, 'Human Kingship' examines the dangers of power - review

Rabbi David Silber's Human Kingship rereads the Book of Samuel to ask what restrains a ruler when no tribunal can remove him, and whether justice can survive unchecked power.

KING DAVID, a detail of the early 16th-century marble statue by Michelangelo,   kept at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy.

New details reveal clashes that stopped beeper op. against Hezbollah days after Oct. 7 - exclusive

An exclusive 'Post' review looks at senior military analyst Yonah Jeremy Bob and WSJ's Elliot Kaufman's account of the decisions, clashes, and secret deliberations that shaped Israel's war.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Minister without Portfolio Benny Gantz hold a news conference in Tel Aviv, in November.

Your Taxes: Does Israel need to tax billionaires?

In practice, taxation is cat and mouse. New rules result in new tax planning techniques. It is unclear whether family members would each have a $100 million threshold.

 Income Tax and Property Tax Department at the Finance Ministry

'My Other Half': Sex, drugs, rock & roll, philosophy, and cynicism - book review

In My Other Half, the hero, Jake, eventually meets an unexpected fate in Jerusalem. Until then, he embarks on a hilarious series of decadent misadventures, some of which appear below.

David Isaacson’s 'My Other Half.'

'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review

An American octogenarian oleh, born in a DP camp in Italy, offers his Holocaust survivor parents’ tales to the world.

BIELSKI partisans and families. Lazar Engles stands third from the left.

'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review

The French have a saying: “Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner” (to understand all is to forgive all). Marc David Baer's work may help many on that journey.

ABRAHAM’S GATE, ‘Sha’ar Avraham’ in Hebrew and ‘Bab Ibrahim’ in Arabic, preserved in Tel Dan, is around 4,000 years old.

'The Jewish March of Folly': Vindicating Zionism while warning the Jewish People - review

Whether or not author Amotz Asa-El agrees with this alternative analysis, or others, he has done such a masterful job of creating and sharpening his historical lens that many now apply it with ease.

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM by David Roberts, 1850. Jewish factions fought each other even as the Romans approached Jerusalem’s walls.

Amotz Asa-El’s 'The Jewish Mach of Folly’ warns of an Israeli civil war’s approach - interview

From the civil wars of biblical Israel to the divisions that preceded Oct. 7, Amotz Asa-El’s bestseller presents a warning the Jewish people have repeatedly failed to heed.

AMOTZ ASA-EL. The contemporary parallels in his book’s English edition are impossible to miss.