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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)
August 23, 2024, 10:38 pm
Brooklyn book launch rescheduled after cancellation over ‘Zionist’ rabbi moderator
Event for Joshua Leifer’s ‘Tablets Shattered’ back on as owner of bookstore blames rogue employee for ‘hideous’ incident, fires her
By Luke Tress
Yosef Halper, who used the pen name J.C. Halper in a nod to his American-born name, shows off his first published book in his Tel Aviv store on July 6, 2022. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
August 26, 2022, 2:55 pm
Taking a page, iconic Tel Aviv bookseller releases his 1st original story collection
Yosef Halper has served English readers from his rough location on Allenby Street for 30 years. Now the street and some of its regulars feature in his new book ‘The Bibliomaniacs’
By Melanie Lidman
Ezra Goldstein has been carefully selecting and stocking books at Community Bookstore since he took over the shop in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood in 2009. (Julia Gergely/ JTA)
February 21, 2022, 5:11 am
The literary tastemaker who saved Brooklyn’s oldest independent bookstore retires
Ezra Goldstein took over Park Slope’s Community Bookstore in 2009 to bring it out of debt and become known as ‘the oracle’ of the borough’s literary community
By julia GERGELY
Ken Gloss outside the Brattle Book Shop, which is steps from Boston Common. (Courtesy of the Brattle Book Shop/ via JTA)
June 21, 2020, 6:57 pm
This Jewish Boston bookseller wants to help you spruce up your Zoom background
As pandemic-era videoconferencing gives an intimate glimpse of what’s on people’s shelves, Ken Gloss, owner of the 185-year-old Brattle Book Shop, offers to update your stacks
By Penny Schwartz
Karen Mason, left, and Barry Mason in the documentary 'Circus of Books.' (Courtesy)
May 6, 2020, 4:41 am
‘Regular’ Jewish parents turn gay porn powerhouse in new Netflix documentary
‘Circus of Books’ follows how director Rachel Mason’s conservative parents turned an adult bookstore into a California LGBT institution — and still sent the kids to Hebrew school
By Jordan Hoffman
Inside Joseph's Bookstore in London. (Courtesy)
January 9, 2019, 4:57 am
Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles
Even as demand for literature is on the rise, online bookstores make it nearly impossible to sustain a fixed literary space for secular ‘Jewish’ works by fledgling writers
By James Martin
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