The flawed and the complex; the historic and the particular. These are the qualities that I look for in a good book. Below are some of the Jewish books I read and enjoyed in 2023.
Ethics of Our Fighters has as its background the Jewish reaction to being confronted with the moral challenges of warfare.
The Elephant in My Room is the story of seven-year-old Benny, whose father is called up for military service on October 7.
These are specifically Jewish stories, and unlikely to be appreciated or understood without a background in what is commonly called Yiddishkeit.
A purge of books from Orange County, FL Public Schools to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive have deemed a Holocaust book as too offensive to read.
Vocabulary is something you have to work on your whole life, stressed Sigmundsson. “We have to work on our vocabulary from birth, throughout our school years, and really our whole lives.”
The exhibition is a salute to the talent and dogged determination of a craftsman from a different era who exudes a gentle demeanor but also a steely hard-earned core. This is an event to savor.
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