Find out what the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff is read­ing this month!MimiSaba­ba by Yamin Levy is an inter­est­ing book of two sto­ries, both tak­ing place in Jerusalem, but…

Per­haps one of the best reli­gious tra­di­tions I have adopt­ed for myself as an adult is hear­ing the Book of Lamen­ta­tions read at Con­gre­ga­tion Shearith Israel, the…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinI was so tak­en with the con­tent of Steven Shankman’s Turned Inside Out: Read­ing the Russ­ian Nov­el in Prison I almost failed to notice the book…

Car­olLast week, in the wake of Don­ald Trump’s vic­to­ry and Leonard Cohen’s death, I reached for Liel Lei­bovitz’s thought­ful and illu­mi­nat­ing 2013 med­i­ta­tion on…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinIt’s a great day for Amer­i­ca: not only do we get to ful­fill our civic duty and wear cool stick­ers (and even get free dough­nuts, if you know…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinFirst you hear that Jami Atten­berg, the author of The Mid­dlesteins and Saint Maizie, has a new nov­el in the works, and you think: yes. Then you…