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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

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A Bukharan savory pastry featured in 'Savory Flavors,' a culinary guidebook by Ron Diller, published in June 2024 (Courtesy)
November 19, 2024, 2:23 pm
Book offers guide to Israel’s ethnic groups through family restaurants
Ron Diller’s ‘Savory Flavors’ explains the history of the communities behind the country’s multicultural cuisine: ‘I really wanted to tell their stories’
By Jessica Steinberg
At left: Jean Carroll circa 1955. (via Photofest); Cover of 'First Lady of Laughs' by Grace Kessler Overbeke. (Courtesy: NYU Press)
November 18, 2024, 4:25 am
Before Midge Maisel, there was Jean Carroll, a real-life trailblazing Jewish comedienne
In her new book, ‘First Lady of Laughs,’ scholar Grace Kessler Overbeke shines light on the oft-overlooked performer who created ‘a totally different model of funny Jewish women’
By Rich Tenorio
Michael Milken, left, formerly of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., arrives at State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his arraignment, April 7, 1989. At right is Milken's attorney Arthur Liman. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
November 4, 2024, 2:02 am
How an ’80s Wall Street hotshot’s antics got him jailed – and how Trump aided his comeback
In ‘Witness to a Prosecution,’ Richard Sandler takes on the legal system that landed his friend Michael Milken in prison and charts his return, which includes a presidential pardon
By Rich Tenorio
Left: Orthodox Jews congregate in Venice’s ancient Jewish ghetto. (Photo by Paolo Raccanelli); Right: Cover of 'Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto,' by Harry Freedman. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2024, 1:00 pm
Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto
In ‘Shylock’s Venice,’ UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of Jewish history that goes far deeper than the famous Shakespeare character
By Rich Tenorio
Detail from an illustration from 'Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,' by Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band. (Courtesy)
October 18, 2024, 12:14 pm
This Sukkot, a new book gives a daring – and beautiful – reassessment of Ecclesiastes
In ‘Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,’ Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band paint the ancient eponymous text in a more optimistic light
By Rich Tenorio
Author Michael Horowitz's new book is 'Hope and Despair.' (Courtesy)
October 11, 2024, 4:43 pm
A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened
French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel. He’s still cautiously optimistic
By Rich Tenorio
Ina Garten appears at the 28th annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 13, 2024, in New York. Garten released a memoir, 'Be Ready When the Luck Happens.' (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP, File)
October 10, 2024, 4:46 am
In long-awaited memoir, star chef Ina Garten opens up about her abusive Jewish parents
The cookbook writer and TV personality is now a household name, but she discusses her painful childhood for the first time in her new biography, ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’
By Rachel Ringler
Wounded Jewish boys in Hebron, August 1929 (Courtesy of The Hebron Archives)
October 9, 2024, 4:29 am
New book draws line from 1929 Hebron Massacre to horrific events of October 7
In ‘Ghosts of a Holy War,’ Yardena Schwartz investigates the lies and denials that have fueled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a century, pushing a solution further away
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hadassah Ben-Ari at her home in Pardes Hannah with a copy of her book, 'The Heroes of October 7,' on September 30, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
October 7, 2024, 3:50 pm
New children’s book in English brings to life heroic tales of October 7
‘The Heroes of October 7,’ crafted under the guidence of child trauma experts and edited by Hadassah Ben-Ari, aims to teach ‘moments of grace and heroism from the war’ to kids
By Gavriel Fiske
President Joe Biden greets four year old Abigail Mor Edan, who was abducted by Hamas on October 27, 2023 and released on November 26, 2023, in the Oval Office Dining Room, April 24, 2024. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
October 6, 2024, 7:45 pm
How a US family lobbied to free their 3-year-old, orphaned on Oct. 7, from Hamas captivity
US-Israeli citizen Abigail Mor Edan saw her parents murdered and was taken hostage to Gaza by terrorists. Liz Hirsh Naftali writes about the ordeal in new book ‘Saving Abigail’
By Shoshanna Solomon
'The Rise of the Spider' by Michael P. Spradlin. (Courtesy)
October 5, 2024, 8:20 am
Depicting interwar Germany’s rising Nazi party, new kids novel teaches history, morality
‘The Rise of the Spider’ by NY Times bestselling author Michael P. Spradlin aims to show young readers that it’s everyday people who change the world for the better
By Penny Schwartz
Interior view of the new National Library of Israel, 2023. (Iwan Baan)
October 1, 2024, 10:07 am
National Library counts 169 publications so far about Oct. 7
Annual survey updated to show effects of ongoing war and hostage situation on writing process
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli-Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden speaks at a We Are Freyda talk in the Netherlands, November 17, 2021. (YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 17, 2024, 9:04 am
Dutch-Israeli author Yael van der Wouden shortlisted for Booker Prize
Novelist inspired by her frustration as a Jewish woman growing up in the Netherlands feeling like her culture has disappeared
By ToI Staff and AFP
Rabbi Dov Linzer and Abigail Pogrebin, study partners and co-authors of 'It Takes Two to Torah' (Lorin Klaris)
September 15, 2024, 4:33 pm
What happens when a seemingly odd couple becomes friends and Torah study buddies?
In their new book, Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer show genuine warmth and respect for one another while not dancing around their differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
'Next Stop' is the first novel by Benjamin Resnick, rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in suburban New York. (Kenneth Resnick; Simon & Schuster/ JTA)
September 13, 2024, 1:25 am
A rabbi’s debut novel imagines a black hole swallowing Israel. And then things get weird
Benjamin Resnick’s ‘Next Stop’ is set in a dystopian near future where the golden age of American Jewry is just a memory — as is the Jewish state
By Larry Yudelson
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