Jack Riemer / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jack Riemer / JNS.org
New Biography of Philanthropist Fails to Ask Key Jewish Questions
JNS.org - Professor Hasia Diner has a well-earned reputation as an insightful historian. But in her new book, Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, she seems to...
New Book Explores and Preserves Hasidic Musical Heritage
JNS.org - You don’t have to be a scholar of Jewish music to enjoy Velvel Pasternak’s new book, Behind the Music: Stories, Anecdotes, Articles & Reflections. You...
Appreciating and Understanding the Bible, Then and Now (BOOK REVIEW)
JNS.org - Jeremiah Unterman begins Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics, by highlighting two revolutions in the understanding of the Bible that took...
Fresh Perspective on Hayim Nahman Bialik
JNS.org - I have questions about some of the subjects that have been chosen for the Jewish Lives book series from Yale University Press. I wonder...
‘Fotonovela’ on Argentinian Jewish Center Bombing Shows the Camera May Be Mightier Than the Pen
JNS.org -- Do you know what a fotonovela is? I didn’t either, until I read Once@9:53am: Terror in Buenos Aires, a fascinating, mesmerizing book, whose new English edition...
A New Book on the Six-Day War Should Be Required Reading for President Trump
JNS.org -- Guy Laron’s forthcoming book, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East -- to be published, fittingly, around the war's 50th anniversary --...
New Biography Asks: ‘What If Rabin Had Lived?’ (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin embodied the qualities of his generation: toughness, gruffness and idealism. He wanted to be a farmer, but the realities of life...
Fusing Israeli and Holocaust History, Novel Offers a ‘Middle Eastern Western’
JNS.org - There is a game that all of us have played at some time in our lives. We ask ourselves: What would my life be...
Book Paints Painful-But-Inspiring Picture of Holocaust’s Immediate Aftermath
JNS.org - Dan Stone’s “The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath” is difficult reading, and not just because it documents...
New Commentary on Book of Ruth a Refreshing Approach to Bible Study
JNS.org - The megillah (scroll) of Ruth, read annually on the second day of the Shavuot holiday, is nothing new to synagogue-goers. But a...
When Torah Teaches Life and Life Teaches Torah (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Rabbi Gordon Tucker spent the first 20 years of his career teaching at the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the next...
Biography Sheds New Light on David Ben-Gurion’s Place in Jewish History
JNS.org - There is one sentence in "Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel" that made me sit up in surprise. I thought that I knew the...
How a Jewish Leader With 3 Months to Live Created a ‘Seminar’ on Life
JNS.org - What would you do if you found out that you had only three more months to live? Gordon Zacks was a successful businessman,...
From Iphigenia to Isaac, a Fresh Take on Age-Old Stories (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Tova Hartman and Charlie Buckholtz in Are You Not a Man of God?have taken two stories from the bible, two from the...
