Books
Israel’s largest booksellers pull Sally Rooney’s novels
It will soon be even harder to find Sally Rooney’s books in Hebrew.
Former NY congressman Steve Israel breaks into the book business
“I am going from selling myself as a candidate to selling books as a bookstore owner,” said the former congressman from New York.
‘A hypocrite’: Israelis in publishing say Sally Rooney is turning her back on Hebrew readers
The Israeli publishing house she would be willing to work with does not exist, her critics say.
After the Tree of Life massacre, an inspiring story of a community coming together
In the aftermath of a horrific tragedy, Mark Oppenheimer returned home to Squirrel Hill and found a surprisingly uplifting story.
An oral history of the most epic Jewish summer camp prank ever
More than a decade after it happened, Ramah campers, counselors and staff look back on a Harry Potter spoiler they’ll never forget.
How classic Yiddish tales are being brought back to life — and in English too!
“The Clever Little Tailor” is a bilingual edition, translated by the grandson of the original writer, Solomon Simon.
ACT UP changed AIDS activism. Sarah Schulman wants us to learn its lessons
“If people wanted to be out, the only place they could be respected was the queer community.”
Looking for Hope: A writer finds inspiration in Jewish-Palestinian friendship, especially now
Haviva Ner-David was just starting to promote her debut novel, about the intersecting lives of two Israeli women — one Jewish, one Palestinian — when last month’s military escalation with Gaza erupted, accompanied by the worst internecine fighting between Jewish and Arab citizens in recent memory.
She followed rookie doctors through the very worst of COVID
Emma Goldberg’s new book profiles young physicians and frontline workers thrown into the “crisis zone” of pandemic New York.
In Brooklyn’s hipster Williamsburg neighborhood, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture
A new book shows the religious and real estate forces that have turned Brooklyn’s Orthodox into a political and economic power.