Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinImage: Edel Rodriguez, from Fas­ci­nat­ing: The Life of Leonard NimoyEach year pro­duces a fresh crop of fic­tion, non­fic­tion, poet­ry, and…

Bec­caNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilli­gan is about a fam­i­ly of Irish Jews over three gen­er­a­tions, writ­ten by a young writer who became…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinIt’s rare that a children’s book about doing a mitz­vah tugs at adult read­ers’ heart­strings, but a new sto­ry by Michelle Edwards…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinI’ve been haunt­ed by Tom­my Wieringa’s These Are the Names since pick­ing up an advance copy last month. The orig­i­nal edi­tion of the Dutch nov­el…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinI always have an eye out for good books for young Jew­ish read­ers — sto­ries that break the mold of what we con­sid­er ​“Jew­ish chil­dren’s…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinOnly two weeks until Mar­jorie Ingal­l’s long-await­ed guide to Jew­ish par­ent­ing, Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jew­ish Moth­ers Do to Raise Suc­cess­ful,…