Censorship is fear mongering. Fear of new ideas. Fear of repercussions. Recently, this fear blew up in our own Jewish community.

Seven fiction writers, all American Jewish women, tackle a highly disputed literary question: What makes a work of fiction Jewish? Their replies are fascinating.

Ruth Mark Egash’s YA coming-of-age story explores the conflicts between Jews and Arabs as well as the tensions between secular and religious Jews.

'It’s a generational change,' Ayelet Gundar-Goshen says. 'Women can write novels that will tell the great Israeli stories as much as men.'

The National Library of Israel has a new building in Jerusalem—and a renewed purpose, to be the collective memory of Israel and the Jewish people.

Don't be clueless in the New Year! Usher in the High Holidays by brushing up on clues and answers related to the chaggim.

New year, new books! Take your pick from a whimsical graphic novel exploring dreams to a novella about a 17th century Jewess living in the Venice Ghetto.

Author Linda Kass captures pageant energy and postwar disorientation in 'Bessie,' an impressively researched novel about Bess Myerson, the woman hailed by Jews as their modern Queen Esther.