Whether we agree with Hasidism or not, it behooves us to know more about these fast-growing communities that are transforming the demography of American Jewry.

Given the virulent and irrational anti-Israel climate prevalent on college campuses, Nora Gold’s insightful and fluid novel is most welcome.

Daniel Silva has invested more than his usual meticulous plotting in The English Spy, his latest book in the popular series featuring Mossad spy Gabriel Allon.

Reminiscent of the richly drawn mini societies that the late Israeli author Dalya Bilu used to create, Shoham’s world of African asylum seekers in Israel has all the…

A review of Anita Diamant's new novel, "The Boston Girl."

In dense stream of consciousness, protagonist Arthur Landau, a middle-class sociologist, returns home in search of his lost life only to confront a formidable psychological wall between himself…

First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.

This book is an original for more than one reason. To begin with, it is a first-time English translation of a writer popular in Israel. And that writer,…