Books

'The Jewish Journey Through Loss': Combining halacha and psychology in order to heal - review

The wisdom of clinical psychologist Dr. Batya Ludman and Jewish educator Gina Junger combine to create a book that balances both psychology and Jewish law.

HELPING MOURNERS to heal.
Thee are no illustrations, except for an unexpected one on the last page.

'The Morning the Apples Began to Sing': A story of wonder and imagination - review

EMILY’S JOURNEY in the land of doors. Artwork by Orit Magia

'Emily Saw a Door': Learning to create spaces for each other with creativity, acceptance - review

Relationship difficulties

From competition to communication: Removing the strategic games in relationships - comment


Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review

Hitler and his minions combined hatred of Jews as racial aliens polluting German culture with a crusade against 'Judeo-Bolshevism,' allegedly poised to spread Soviet-style Communism across the world

SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Jerusalem highlights: September 26 – October 2

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Maureen Nehedar (see Sunday).

Behind the bylines: Ethan Freedman - interview

An unconventional journalist capturing the human condition.

Ethen Freedman.

Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dad 

Sam Sussman’s debut novel, “Boy from the North Country,” revolves around a mystery: Was Bob Dylan, the singer and Nobel laureate, the narrator’s father?

In "Boy from the North Country," Sam Sussman writes about his mother's real-life romance with Bob Dylan. (Penguin Random House; author photo by Ben Kaplan)

Jerusalem highlights: September 12-18

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

‘It’s All Good’

Dreams, passions, risks, mistakes: Lessons from a long life - opinion

We have only one life to live. Let’s try to leave the world better than we found it. 

MONICA SELES on the tennis court.

New crop of High Holidays children’s books take place in Uganda, Hong Kong and a Sephardic home

A delightful array of new children's books to highlight the depth and the joy of the upcoming High Holidays.

New books out for the High Holidays in 2025 include TK and TK. (Collage by Ilana Zahavy)

David Blumberg built Israel’s greatest library, then politics destroyed him - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: David Blumberg’s dream library stands tall in Jerusalem, but his life ended in tragedy, overshadowed by scandal and political strife.

DAVID BLUMBERG – Short and bespectacled, but authoritative and full of energy, he turned the National Library into a cultural center.

Inside the Muslim Brotherhood's industry of death: An interview with Cynthia Farahat

An interview with Cynthia Farahat, author of ‘The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Industry of Death’

THEN-US SECRETARY of state John Kerry meets with then-Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in May 2013. Morsi was affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Rotem Sella: Shaping Israel's political discourse through publishing

Publisher Rotem Sella says impact is measured in copies and conversation, and the country is listening.

JPost sits down with Rotem Sella.