Philip Roth's inability to see beyond his own perspective bears similarities to some ultra-Orthodox Jews' way of viewing women....
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A closer look at Adam Cohen’s new collection of visually significant Haggadot from the past 700 years: Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggada Masterpieces...
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A list of books for students who will be traveling to Israel to learn Jewish texts... or those who wish they were....
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Read these books instead of, or along with, more well-known books by male authors....
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Have you ever picked up a book knowing that its arrival in your life at precisely this moment was a gift? That was my sense when I held Jay Michaelson’s The Gate of Tears, subtitled “Sadness and the Spiritual Path.” As I delved into the book (out this month in paperback), that sense only deepened. “Joy and sadness are not opposites,” Michaelson writes. “Sometimes, they coexist, like two consonant notes of a complex yet harmonious chord.” And he observes: “At our contemporary moment, the ordinary sadness that is part of a life......
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Need a change of pace for your book club, or a unique gift for a friend? Go to your favorite book seller and immediately buy The Well of Being, subtitled “a children’s book for adults.” I honestly felt privileged reading this beautiful, artistic, profound, provocative and absolutely one-of-a-kind story. I don’t know what to compare this book to, in order to adequately describe how powerfully and wisely this magnificent story affects the reader, by speaking straight to the heart. Be prepared to go on an enchanted journey through the landscape of your......
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