Aaron Davidman morphs into a dozen characters in Wrestling Jerusalem, his one-man show dealing with the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a pot-smoking young Israeli,

Rosenberg started her Hadassah career as president of Junior Hadassah. As an adult she led a young women/young leader’s group and later became president of the Merrick-Bellmore chapter…

Rabbi Buchdahl is being installed as the senior rabbi at the historic Central Synagogue in New York. We profiled the prominent rabbi and cantor in June 2013.

The Secret Legacy of Biblical Women: Revealing the Divine Feminine by Melinda Ribner. (Self-published, 312 pp. $18 paper) In this startling and passionate book, Melinda

Almost 30 years ago, Simon Schama wrote that “all history tends towards autobiographical confession.” Now Schama ranges across lands and times and languages to confess through his own…

German sociologist and theoretician Theodor Adorno believed that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Brenda Webster, whose previous novels and translations give witness to both her narrative…

Love and Treasure: A Novel by Ayelet Waldman. (Knopf, 334 pp. $26.95) Salzberg, 1945. Salzberg, 1945. In the aftermath of World War II, American G.I.