The sweet potato—or batata in Hebrew—is preferable to pumpkin when baking for Thanksgiving, for instance in these sweet potato pie bars.

A new crop of female, Jewish and (sometimes) Israeli contemporary street artists represent a departure for a field long dominated by men.

Michael David Lukas blends fact and fiction in 'The Last Watchman of Old Cairo,' a richly evocative tapestry that spans 1,000 years in three interconnected narratives.

My father told me stories about the long line of al-Raqb men who had, for nearly a thousand years, served as watchmen of the Ibn Ezra Synagogue.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner's popular novel turns the familiar divorce story on its head.

'Confronting Hate' is the new biography of Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum who helped pioneer the connection between Interfaith dialogue and human rights activism.

Barry Scott Wimpfheimer's 'biography' is an engaging tour de force that discusses both the structure and history of the Talmud while illustrating its complex content.

Our roundup includes touching coming-of-age novels, stories about overcoming mental illness and the latest book from Alice Hoffman, which begins in 1941 Berlin.