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Book Review: Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
“Though Moving Kings is considerably shorter and more accessible—with less erudite but nonetheless stimulating vocabulary, similes, and fewer stream of consciousness run-on sentences—than Cohen’s previous novel Book of Numbers (also reviewed on NYJB) it, too, skillfully weaves descriptive character portraits and plot lines into a novel of ideas that addresses issues as diverse as capitalism, gentrification, army veterans, the […]
Jewish books: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
September 12, 2014
“The Betrayers succeeds by combining thought provoking ethical dilemmas with dramatic tension in an engaging prose style and is enthusiastically recommended.” – from my New York Journal of Books review (which includes spoilers). For additional remarks, excerpts, and an exploration of the novel as a roman a clef see my examiner article, which begins with the […]
Judaica: Rube Goldberg like robotic Hanukkah menorah lighter
December 4, 2012
Technion students design a Rube Goldberg like devise that lights a hanukkiah. via examiner.com
Three Israel talks in Brooklyn – New York NY | Examiner.com
October 15, 2012
via examiner.com Ambassador Oren’s will be the first of three talks in the next thirty days in Brooklyn synagogues about Israel by knowledgable speakers.
“What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past” published today
September 1, 2011
What happens when a New York Jewish pack-rat daughter inherits her New York Jewish pack-rat father’s belongings? She embarks on a Jewish genealogical search for her and her dad’s long lost relatives. Nancy K. Miller‘s What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past, published today by University of Nebraska Press, is the story of […]
Davar Torah Shabbat Ra’eh
August 27, 2011
This morning I delivered a Davar Torah on Parashat Ra’eh, the weekly Torah portion, at Park Slope Jewish Center in Brooklyn. My talk’s sources include Deuteronomy 11:26 -12:28, Max Vogelstein’s book “Fertile Soil: A Political History of Israel Under the Divided Kingdom,” and “A Homily on Political Messianism,” a blog post by my American-Israeli […]
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