Title: Principles Of Spiritual Activism

Posted on: June 16th, 2004

Rabbi Avi Weiss has become legendary for his heroic activism on behalf of Jewish causes where others are content with private lamenting.

Title: No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains And The Sinking of The Dorchester in World War II

Posted on: June 16th, 2004

During the Second World War, a top-secret mission was organized to establish a military base in Greenland that would enable the recent invention of radar to be tested.

Title: From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History

Posted on: June 2nd, 2004

When a Jew becomes deathly ill, it has become the custom for that person to adopt a new name, for a name evokes great spirituality, and it is hoped that the goodness of the adopted name will bring relief.

Titles: Antisemitism – Myth And Hate From Antiquity To The Present and The Return Of Anti-Semitism

Posted on: May 19th, 2004

Of the many books The Jewish Press receives for review, a large number deal with the issue of anti-Semitism.

Title: A Moral Reckoning, The Role Of The Catholic Church In The Holocaust And Its Unfulfilled Duty Of Repair

Posted on: May 12th, 2004

When The Jewish Press reviewed the original (hardcover) edition of "A Moral Reckoning" nearly two years ago, Daniel Goldhagen was already well-known for his first book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners".

Title: Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges And Initiatives In Contemporary Torah Education

Posted on: April 28th, 2004

It is rare to find a book notable for its area of concern, its contributors, its sponsorship, and its publisher. But Wisdom From All My Teachers rates high on each level.

Title: The Nazi Conscience

Posted on: April 21st, 2004

In The Lord of The Flies, author William Goldman told the story of how a group of children marooned on an island formed a society that descended into the depravity of progressive marginalizing some of its members.

Title: Modern Physics And Ancient Faith

Posted on: April 14th, 2004

Although he lived his life devoid of traditional religious observance, Albert Einstein very famously stated: "I shall never believe that G-d plays dice with the world."

Rebuilding Lives

Posted on: April 7th, 2004

Recent years have seen a flood of books on the Holocaust. The reason is that the number of survivors are dwindling, and in a few years there will be no witnesses.

Title: Consolation, The Spiritual Journey Beyond Grief

Posted on: March 31st, 2004

The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning by Rabbi Maurice Lamm (1969, Jonathan David Pub.) has remained a staple on Jewish bookshelves for the past 35 years.

Title: Letters of Light

Posted on: March 31st, 2004

This is a fascinating sefer - seemingly simple, with answers easy enough for small children to understand and yet containing explanations to conundrums that have puzzled many for generations.

Title: Let Me Go

Posted on: March 3rd, 2004

Imagine what it would feel like to discover, as an adult, that your own mother was a cold-blooded concentration-camp guard who participated even in the killing of babies in their mothers' arms?

Title: Rembrandt’s Jews

Posted on: February 11th, 2004

There is currently a major retrospective of the works of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn at the Fine Arts Museum in Boston.

Title: Moses: A Memoir

Posted on: February 11th, 2004

Not everyone who imagines what Moshe Rabbeinu might have thought as he carried the Tablets down the mountain visualizes this scene in the humorous vein of a Mel Brooks.

Title: The Heretic

Posted on: January 7th, 2004

The Heretic is a history of the early beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition in novelized form - a breathtaking tour de force that is both historically accurate and unusually entertaining, so that one can almost finish the nearly 400 pages in just two or three sittings.

Title: The American Axis – Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, And the Rise of The Third Reich

Posted on: January 1st, 2004

In every generation there rises a Haman, son of Amalek. During the 20th century there were at least two in the United States: Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh.

Title: Last Century Of A Sephardic Community, The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943

Posted on: January 1st, 2004

This intriguing volume is really three books in one.

Title: Strange Names

Posted on: December 24th, 2003

This is everything a children's book should be: exciting, colorful, and easy to read.

Title: The Strike That Changed New York

Posted on: December 3rd, 2003

There are moments in time that define an era, and for New York's ethnic communities of African-Americans and Jews that moment came on May 9th, 1968, when Fred Nauman, a junior high school teacher in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn and 18 other educators received letters telling them that the predominantly African-American local school district had fired them.

Review: Never Again? The Threat Of The New Anti-Semitism

Posted on: October 31st, 2003

An old Native American expression admonishes us to "Never judge a man until you walk a mile in his moccasins."