YU’s Nechama Price Publishes Book Exploring the Twelve Tribes
The Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women at Yeshiva University (GPATS) is proud to announce the publication of "Tribal Blueprints" by Nechama Price, director of GPATS. The...
Shall We Wake the President?: Disaster Management from the Oval Office
Book Review by Michele Justic
In light of the current Coronavirus Crisis, 5TJT is revisiting this book review, modified from the original printed in 2017. Tevi Troy has also published...
Book Review: “Together Again” By Rabbi David M. Cohen
By 5TJT Staff
I spent Shabbat reading Rabbi David Cohen’s latest book, “Together Again,” and I’m happy to report it truly transformed my Shabbat.
In his book, Rabbi Cohen takes a...
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...
6 New Children’s Books for the New Year
BY PENNY SCHWARTZ
BOSTON (JTA) — A Rosh Hashanah apple cake bake-off fit for reality television and another installment in the Scarlet and Sam series from the award-winning author Eric A....
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”...
Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy Dissect Jewish Oppression and Salvation
On Wednesday, October 14, Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish hosted Natan Sharansky and Dr. Gil Troy in an engaging and eye-opening discussion on the current situation in Israel and...
Jewish Poet Louise Gluck Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
BY GABE FRIEDMAN
(JTA) — Louise Gluck, the American granddaughter of Hungarian Jews, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Gluck, 77, was awarded “for her unmistakable poetic voice that...
Kafka Letters Reveal Deep Affinity for Hebrew
JNS.org – Writings of 20th century Jewish writer Franz Kafka made public for the first time this summer reveal his great affinity for the Hebrew language.
Living in Prague in...
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...