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...
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Three Israelis Wounded in Jordan Valley Terror Shooting

(March 28, 2024 / JNS) Three Israelis were wounded on Thursday morning in a terrorist attack in the Jordan Valley. A Palestinian gunman opened fire on...

Joe Lieberman, Longtime Senator and first Jewish-American VP Candidate, Dies at 82

ANDREW BERNARD (March 27, 2024 / JNS) Former Sen. Joe Lieberman died on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 82 after complications from a fall, according...

A Pro-Israel President

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