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Parenting on a Prayer: Ancient Jewish Secrets for Raising Modern Children

Review by

Rabbi Jack Riemer

Rabbi Amy Grossblatt Pessah

There are two groups that I think will benefit from Parenting on a Prayer (Ben Yehuda Press, 2020): those of us who are worried that we may not be raising children in the w

Wholly Jewish: Max Antman: The Queerness and Politics of Torah

Wholly Jewish

How can we embrace Judaism from not only a queer perspective, but also a “political” one? Max Antman (he/him), a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, discusses how being a gay man influences his reading of Torah, how his Reform synagogue empowered his gay identity, and the sacred relationship between activism and studying Jewish text.

On a Clear April Morning: A Jewish Journey

Review by

Marcia R. Rudin

Marcos Iolovitch (translation by Merrie Blocker)

On a clear April morning in the early 1900s, Brazilian poet and author Marcos Iolovitch’s father, Yossef, a merchant in Russia, saw “beautiful brochures with colored illustrations describing the excellent climate…of a vast and faraway country of America.” Homesteads on favorable terms were being

Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution

Review by

Rabbi A. James Rudin

Shlomo Avineri

Karl Marx! The name conjures up an intimidating bearded revolutionary intent on violently overthrowing society. Shlomo Avineri, professor emeritus of political science at the Hebrew University, shatters that conception in his superb new biography.

Defending Israel: The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client

Review by

Rabbi A. James Rudin

Alan M. Dershowitz

In his new book, Defending Israel: The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client, Alan Dershowitz underscores his love affair with and his passionate defense of the world’s only Jewish state: “There was never a time that Israel was not part of my consciousness.”