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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Book review

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October 7th atrocities
March 1, 2024, 3:30 am
Walking on Broken Glass
In the aftermath of October 7th, foundations and intuitions the Jewish world had relied upon were violently shattered.
By Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
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January 8, 2024, 12:28 am
New Jersey Rabbi releases book chronicling the first 50 days of the Israel-Hamas War
Rabbi Kirshner’s “Streams of Shattered Consciousness” provides an in-the-moment account of the war and an in-depth discussion of the ethical conundrums and emotional trauma experienced by worldwide Jewry
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February 13, 2023, 9:18 am
The Unwanted: An excerpt
It is September 1939. War has just begun. The Nazis have begun an extermination program: against their own children.
An actor of the Romania's Jewish State Theatre rehearses the musical drama 'The Lights of the Ghetto,' a mix of music and stories by Holocaust survivors in Bucharest, Romania, January 26, 2019. (AP Photo/ Vadim Ghirda, File)
February 7, 2022, 2:42 am
A lesser known history: Romania’s key role in Holocaust explored in new book
Decades under a communist regime erased the memory of Romania’s position as a principal Nazi ally in oppression and murder of Jews
By STEPHEN McGRATH
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May 6, 2021, 12:52 pm
‘“EXHALE” is a captivating read’ — Daphne Merkin, author of ’22 Minutes of Unconditional Love’
You won’t look at your lungs in the same way again! — Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of ‘When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error’
By David Weill
Benjamin Markovits, author of 'A Weekend in New York.' (Courtesy)
March 12, 2019, 7:07 pm
In his 8th book, Benjamin Markovits writes what he knows: Jewish and complicated
Before speaking at London’s Jewish Book Week, the author opens up to ToI about how his newest novel, ‘A Weekend in New York,’ is informed by his mixed-faith upbringing
By Anne Joseph
'Mavericks, Mystics, & False Messiahs,' by Rabbi Pini Dunner. (Courtesy Toby Press)
November 27, 2018, 11:57 pm
From miracle men to global spies, book of Jewish wild cards is sure to surprise
Out on December 1, ‘Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs’ by Rabbi Pini Dunner brings alive historical peculiarities — including a Jewish Dalai Lama
By Rich Tenorio
Martin Fletcher, former NBC correspondent in Israel and author of 'Promised Land.' (Courtesy)
November 24, 2018, 1:33 am
Former NBC correspondent’s new novel is a love letter to the Jewish homeland
Martin Fletcher spent decades as an objective journalist in Israel. Now he just wants readers to think, ‘This is a great place worth supporting, with all its faults’
By Cathryn J. Prince
Norm Eisen, left, meeting Vaclav Havel in Prague. (Forum 2000/via JTA)
September 24, 2018, 8:54 am
Trump critic’s book about Prague is a metaphor for Jewish anti-authoritarianism
Former US ambassador Norm Eisen’s ‘The Last Palace’ is an ode to his mother’s homeland and the historic estate he occupied for 3 years, and a grave warning on illiberal democracy
By Ron Kampeas
Mehmed Talaat Pasha, left, with Ismail Enver Pasha and Turkish colonel Halil Sami Bey. (Courtesy University of Princeton Press)
September 7, 2018, 6:14 am
Before the Holocaust, Ottoman Jews supported the Armenian genocide’s ‘architect’
Author Hans-Lukas Kieser says a desperate Zionist press praised the empire even during the slaughter of its minority population, a murder which Israel continues to gloss over today
By JP O’ Malley
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs, June 1942. (Bundesarchiv bild)
September 4, 2018, 6:49 am
Putin grants authors partial access to secret Soviet archives on Hitler’s death
Investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina dig deep into classified Russian materials that are still part of an ongoing Cold War-esque propaganda battle
By JP O’ Malley
A Yiddish newspaper comic depicting a noted intellectual as praying to Karl Marx. (Yale University Press)
August 27, 2018, 3:01 pm
How the stereotype of Jews and money goes beyond the Pale (of Settlement)
A unique Jewish relationship with materialism has roots grounded in tradition, says scholar Eliyahu Stern. But anti-Semites have historically subverted it to suit their propaganda
By JP O’ Malley
Detail from 'The Witch of Endor Raising The Spirit of Samuel,' by William Blake, circa 1800. Pen and watercolor on paper, 283 x 423 mm (Public domain, via wikipedia commons)
August 5, 2018, 5:22 am
Is Kabbalah real? One scientist sees no trick in humanity’s esoteric traditions
In his charmingly written ‘Real Magic,’ parapsychologist Dean Radin conjures up an argument that paranormal activity may indeed exist
By Jen Maidenberg
Michael Frank, author of award-winning memoir, 'The Mighty Franks.' (Robin Siegel)
July 23, 2018, 2:05 am
This award-winning memoir is a Greek tragedy with a Jewish twist
Wingate Prize winner ‘The Mighty Franks’ is about author Michael Frank’s tight-knit family that’s so close it hurts
By JP O’ Malley
Film director Stanley Kubrick, in an undated picture during production of "The Shining." (AP Photo)
July 21, 2018, 1:42 pm
Scholar reveals morbid roots of lost Stanley Kubrick script
Film expert Nathan Abrams shocks fans by unveiling nearly finished manuscript by Jewish director, based on book by author, Holocaust survivor, and suicide victim Stefan Zweig
By JP O’ Malley
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