By any other name: Her voice will be heard – Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin

Holiday reading: Jewish claimant to Shakespeare’s plays Read more

A laugh and a tear with David Baddiel

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Israel Alone: a book by Bernard-Henri Levy

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Ittay Flescher’s dream of enduring peace

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Robert Manne’s Memoir: a witness to history

 

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Unravelling the mysteries of Indian-Jewish food

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John Safran provokes and pontificates

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Seeds sown in a Season of Death

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Deborah Conway: new challenges for a brave artist

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Fragile creatures: A memoir of love and pain

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No one knows their destiny

Inside the Dunera story                  A book Review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Opera Australia’s stars in the second row

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Quiet time with the President: A Doctor’s Story About Learning to Listen

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Mitch Albom’s new Holocaust novel is about ‘price we pay for the lies we tell’

On a visit to Yad Vashem 10 years ago, Mitch Albom, the sports journalist turned inspirational book author, was struck by a story that emerged from one of the video displays. Read more

The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West

Alex Ryvchin’s book reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

The Interpretation of Cakes

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

Wisdom Grows in My Garden: a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

If the writings of Rabbi Paul Plotkin were anything like the sermons he gave, then people would be flocking to hear him. Read more

ISRAELOPHOBIA: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred & What to do about it

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

My Father’s Shadow: a memoir – written by Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo

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The Angel of Kings Cross: The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading

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Funny You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humour from the Silent Generation to Millennials

Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen reviews a book by Jennifer Caplan Read more

Book review – Care and Covenant- A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility

Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen reviews Rabbi Jason Weiner’s book. Read more

A Toast to Travel: a book review by Alan Gold

There’s a type of writing which used to be in newspapers called ‘travel porn’, which older readers may remember. Read more

What I Wish I Had Known: Resisting the Urge to Live

Jeffrey Cohen reviews Dasia Black’s book. Read more

Living in an Upside-Down World: Finding Meaning in Complex Times

Jeffrey Cohen reviews Rabbi Ralph Genende’s book. Read more

The Possibly True Story of Martin Gardiner: A Historical Novel

Jeffrey Cohen reviews the novel written by Graham Cohen. Read more

The Hunt: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus thriller

Faye Kellerman’s book reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen. Read more

How a Jewish girl went into hiding with a Nazi family

It is the last winter before Germany’s capitulation. The seventeen-year-old Anni Gmitruk walks alongside a man wearing a swastika armband. It’s dark, and the snow crackles under their shoes. They have just been to the cinema in Zerbst, a small city deep in the Third Reich, to see Heimkehr, a classic among Nazi propaganda films. Read more

The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud – reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

Maggie Anton has introduced us to a number of stories around Jewish life, beginning with her series on Rashi’s Daughters [3 novels] followed by Rav Hisda’s Daughter [2 novels] and one about personal relationships {Fifty Shades of Talmud]. Read more

Portrait of an Unknown Woman: book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

This is Daniel Silva’s twenty-fifth novel and the 22^nd, with Gabriel Allon as the chief protagonist. Read more

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