Melanie Weiss
By Melanie Weiss
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Culture A General Guide to a Specific Kind of Judaism
Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism By Rebecca T. Alpert The New Press, 192 pages, $23.95. The general thesis of Rebecca Alpert’s new book, “Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism,” is that the old saying about two Jews and three opinions contains more than a seed of truth. Alpert cycles back…
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Culture The Yiddishe Mame of Feminism
Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women’s Rights Leader Edited by Paula Doress-Worters The Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 328 pages, $18.95. That the great foremothers of feminism, the first wave of the movement, included in their midst an outspoken Polish Jew is not a fact…
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Culture Faced With Death, an Unlikely Heroine Emerges
The Book of Dahlia By Elisa Albert Free Press, 288 pages, $23. It sounds almost like the beginning of a terrible joke: What happens when a 29-year-old who has wasted much of her life gets a brain tumor? Except that instead of a joke, this is the premise of Elisa Albert’s new novel, “The Book…
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