Posts Tagged: Book Review
‘The Lions’ Den’: A Crucial Examination of Zionism and the Left That Falls Short
The first thing to say about Susie Linfield’s The Lions' Den is that it's an excellent book on a burning topic. Anyone with even a...
What it Means to Be ‘Good’
When I was a kid, I used to wonder why it was that some children in my circles seemed naturally better and sweeter than others...
A Glimpse Into the Palestinian Authority
For 30 years, David Bedein has covered the Israel-Arab conflict, establishing establishing the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron in 1987 to accompany foreign journalists in their...
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...
Reflections on Death, Mourning and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflections on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, by Hillel Halkin; Princeton University Press, 2016; 232 pp. Is there any subject...
Imminent and Ominous: The Facebook-Jihadi Nexus (REVIEW)
For most Americans, Israelis and other Westerners, Facebook is a benign and useful forum through which to catch up with old friends, make new ones,...
EXCLUSIVE: Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander (EXCERPT)
Jews Against Themselves is about the new forms taken by Jewish apostasy in an age when Jewish existence is threatened more starkly and immediately than at...
Christopher Hitchens: The Elmer Gantry of Modern Atheism
Please circle one: Is Christopher Hitchens: (a) a Charlatan (b) an Unpardonably Sloppy Researcher (c) an Atheist Huckster or (d) All of the...
