Judaism | Judaism
Nov.05.2008
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's...
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Sep.15.2008
Jupiter Glazer’s parents emigrated from Russia when he was seven years old. Now, at 14, he’s feeling the burn. He doesn’t understand what he’s doing wrong—why broom-closet rendezvouses with girls don’t seem to be happening, why his teachers can’t understand his English, and why he and his best...
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Sep.01.2008
Victim or perpetrator? That's what New Mexico's favorite public relations maven, Sasha Solomon can't figure out about her niece Gabi . . .
At once a topically flavored whodunit and a realistic, evocative portrayal of the way families join together -- or don't -- in a crisis, The Socorro Blast is...
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Aug.31.2008
Heavenly Sex is a book of poems (at once memoir and fiction!) about varieties of love, sacred and profane. It is, at the same time, as noted by Robert Bly, a celebration of one of the more unusual father-son relationships. A self-taught Russian immigrant, drawing on a variety of ancient mystical...
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Aug.28.2008
One wish remains. Zubis, a djinni cursed in the time of Solomon, has waited 3,000 years for his freedom. Bethany O'Brien, an American journalist who is bound by her own ambitions, is linked to Zubis by an ancient betrayal. She will track Zubis across Europe and into the heart of the Middle East in...
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Jul.31.2008
On the morning of May 10, 1940, the last thing Sofie Rijnfeld expected was the sky to start raining German paratroopers. She and Jan, her husband of 3 years, were living contentedly in Amsterdam with Jan's six daughters. Life held the promise of a bright future for the Rijnfelds, until the German...
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Jul.30.2008
Introducing Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, September 2008) by award-winning journalist Lisa Alcalay Klug. Imagine an updated combination of the beloved Jewish Catalog meets the Joys of Yiddish with a hip-hop spin that captures the...
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Jul.21.2008
This anthology of 18 essays takes for granted that Jews will intermarry, and that the children of intermarriages will be "halfs," or half-Jews. Being a half, says Snyder, is not second best; it is not a pale imitation of being really Jewish. Rather, "half" is an interesting,...
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Jul.19.2008
Maya Gottfried's essay, "Untitled" is included in this anthology by and about individuals raised in interfaith homes. Edited by Laurel Snyder.
Written by authors born into the so-called “dilemma of intermarriage,” the stories in Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-...
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