Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…

Ear­li­er this week, Eric Gart­man posit­ed how and why his­to­ry can and should be both infor­ma­tion­al and inter­est­ing. He is blog­ging here all week as part of the…

Michael Gold­ing is the author of the nov­els Sim­ple Prayers, Benjamin’s Gift, and A Poet of the Invis­i­ble World, now out from Pic­a­dor. He will be blog­ging here all…

In part one of ​“Rad­i­cal Islamism’s War Against the Jews: Who Cares?” Michael C. Kotzin wrote about rad­i­cal Islam and the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. Today read part two of this…

Michael C. Kotzin is a long­time Jew­ish com­mu­nal pro­fes­sion­al and for­mer pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty. He has been an exec­u­tive…

Ear­li­er this week, Mike Kel­ly wrote about look­ing into the bomb­mak­er who built the bomb that blew up a bus on Jaf­fa Road in 1996 and his jour­ney from 9/11 to…

Ear­li­er this week, Mike Kel­ly wrote about his jour­ney from 9/11 to Jerusalem’s Jaf­fa Road. His newest book, The Bus on Jaf­fa Road: A Sto­ry of Mid­dle East Ter­ror­ism…

Jour­nal­ist Mike Kel­ly​’s newest book, The Bus on Jaf­fa Road: A Sto­ry of Mid­dle East Ter­ror­ism and the Search for Jus­tice, chron­i­cles the after­math of the Hamas…