Book review
'Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions': Jerusalem and its names - review
The book offers a perspective on how language itself shapes the identity, and holiness of Jerusalem.
'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review
'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review
'Kotsuji's Gift': The Japanese scholar who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II - review
'The Triumph of Life': Reimagining the relationship between God and humanity - review
Greenberg’s recently published magnum opus, The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism, is arguably the most compelling and thought-provoking book to grace the Jewish bookshelf this year.
'The Jews, 5,000 Years and Counting:' Jewish history can be funny - review
The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting achieves an incredible feat: It covers our entire “epic journey through time, space, and guilt” in 224 pages.
'Eminent Jews:' Jewish sensibility at its best - review
In his book Eminent Jews, David Denby provides engaging, informative, insightful, mostly, but not entirely, celebratory biographies of four eminent Jews.
'Israel’s War of Self-Defense': Capturing a nation in despair - book review
Alan Silverstein, a rabbi and PhD in political science, has written a 235-page book addressing every anti-Israel canard.
'When the Stones Speak': Biblical archaeology in the City of David - review
Irrefutable archaeological evidence of Jewish history in Jerusalem annuls UNESCO’s 2016 ruling.
'Conceived in Hope': The stories of biblical women and motherhood - review
'Conceived in Hope' highlights the stories of biblical women and their relationship to mothering.
'The Hamas Intelligence War against Israel': Do terrorists read the 'Post'? - review
The book aims “to describe and analyze the evolution of Hamas’s intelligence warfare,” and does so admirably.
'Yoko: A Biography': Have we underestimated Yoko Ono all along? - review
As more of her albums have been released and the number of art exhibitions has mounted, however, Ono has increasingly been recognized for what one critic called “the breadth, charm, and brilliance."
'Extreme Trauma': Analyzing the horrors and heroism of October 7 - review
In the hands of the right readers, Extreme Trauma can help ensure that the truth of what happened on Oct. 7 is neither distorted nor forgotten.
'On Democracies and Death Cults': Douglas Murray lauds Israel’s youth - review
On Democracies and Death Cults sets out Douglas Murray’s clear-eyed, reasoned, and deeply researched view of the pogrom committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023
