Best-Selling Novelist Judith Krantz Dies at 91
(JTA) — Best-selling novelist Judith Krantz, whose first novel “Scruples” was published the year she turned 50, has died.
Krantz died on Saturday at her home in Bel Air, California,...
Book Review of ‘Dear Rebbe’
By Yochanan Gordon
Since this is a book comprising the chronology of correspondence that the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ob’m, a chassidic rebbe, had with specific individuals, it would...
Author Judith Kerr Dies Weeks Before Her 96th Birthday
Kerr wrote about the Holocaust in a way children could understand
Jewish and German-born British writer and illustrator Judith Kerr died on May 22, 2019 at the age of 95....
One of Manhattan’s Remaining Judaica Stores to Close
BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
NEW YORK (JTA) — Locals and visitors looking for a Judaica store here will soon only have two options.
J. Levine Books and Judaica, a longtime seller of...
Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel Has Something for Everyone
Review By Michele Justic
As well-intentioned as Chazal were to create learning opportunities within the Seder, some people can lose interest through the night. The Haggadah was compiled before many...
Rabbi Hutner And The Rebbe
Reviewed by Yochanan Gordon
There’s a story of the Kotzker Rebbe who was asked by a group of chassidim how well he knew his followers. They began singling out individuals,...
German Author’s Book About Holocaust Guilt Wins Critics Award
BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
(JTA) – A German author’s graphic memoir about what she calls the inherited sin of the Holocaust won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle award.
Nora Krug’s “Belonging”...
Holocaust Historian Leaves Young Israel Over Support for Netanyahu, Extreme Right Party
(JTA) — Deborah Lipstadt, the prominent Holocaust historian, is resigning her membership in her local synagogue because it belongs to a movement that defended an Israeli political deal with...
Immigrant Tale Wins Top Jewish Children’s Book Honor
(JTA) — A picture book based on the classic “All-of-a-Kind Family” books by Sydney Taylor won an award named in her memory.
“All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah” (Schwartz & Wade), about a turn-of-the-century immigrant Jewish...
Nazi Hunters’ Memoir Wins National Jewish Book Award
(JTA) — Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two prominent French Nazi hunters, won the Jewish Book Council’s top national book award on Wednesday.
“Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld” includes...
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