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Chai Judaica in Millburn is “more of a gift shop than a bookstore,” according to the store’s manager Rivkie Bogomilsky. Photo by Shira Vickar-Fox
July 22, 2020, 9:47 am
Despite niche market, Jewish bookstores vulnerable to online alternatives
By Jed Weisberger
Meryl Ain is the author of several books, including her first work of fiction, “The Takeaway Men.” Photo by Diana Berrent
July 8, 2020, 1:09 pm
A double take on Holocaust memory
Meryl Ain’s debut novel, set in 1950s Queens, centers on a very different pair of twins
By Sandee Brawarsky
Prolific writer James Baldwin was a prophet of today’s Black Lives Matter movement. His 1974 novel is about a wrongful rape charge against a young black man.
June 17, 2020, 12:30 pm
Unlearning about race: a reading list
Four authors who shook up my inherited assumptions about racial injustice
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Benjamin Balint received the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature.
June 17, 2020, 11:57 am
On the trail of Kafka’s literary afterlife
Benjamin Balint on his prize-winning book on the legal fight over the writer’s legacy
By Sandee Brawarsky
April 1, 2020, 11:43 am
Modern plague, ancient story retold
New Haggadahs for a very different Passover
By Steve Lipman
February 26, 2020, 3:54 pm
New releases blooming this spring
By Sandee Brawarsky
“From Left To Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History.”
February 26, 2020, 3:44 pm
The Books List
By NJJN Staff
Michelle Cameron. Photos courtesy Michelle Cameron
February 26, 2020, 3:36 pm
Gate crasher
In Chatham author’s new work of fiction, the Enlightenment brings freedom to a ghetto Jew
By Johanna R Ginsberg
From left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, at the memorial ceremony for the late President Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Sept. 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/via JTA)
November 27, 2019, 12:29 pm
Why Bibi fails the ‘courage’ test
By Gary Rosenblatt
September 26, 2019, 11:46 am
The Book List
By NJJN Staff
September 26, 2019, 11:35 am
Book festival to feature Jewish authors, themes
By NJJN Staff
September 26, 2019, 11:26 am
Leaf through fall’s new releases
By Sandee Brawarsky
Ideal job: Sarah Hurwitz, on being asked if she could be a speechwriter for any Jew in history, said she would choose Moses to “help bring out his integrity and vulnerability.”
September 4, 2019, 12:26 pm
Former Obama speechwriter finds her own voice, in Judaism
By Gary Rosenblatt
The author and her son. Courtesy of Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
April 24, 2019, 12:21 pm
Understanding disability through memoir
By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Susan Weingarten explores the development of this seder tradition.
April 10, 2019, 12:46 pm
Fruits of their (forced) labor
First-ever book on charoset unravels the mysteries of the ritual dish
By Sandee Brawarsky
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