I finished December with 20 ARCs left to be read. January was a doozy here in New York. The weather was colder than I remember it being in a long time, and we got more snow than I’ve seen in years. Mom and I were prepared for the […]
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made […]
Wow, 2025 felt like it was the longest year ever, and I am not sad that it’s over. It was a year of big changes for me, and this year is going to include some more changes, hopefully one of those is going to be a huge one. […]
I can’t believe that the last month of the year is here. Now is crunch time for me on catching up about everything, so I haven’t been posting as regularly as I would like, but I’m planning to work my way back. I just have to figure out […]
On Being Jewish Now: Essays and Reflections from Authors and Advocates On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. But Jews everywhere felt it and came together to process and to speak out in ways they never had before, like […]
I have managed to amass so many books that I am really excited for this post. It isn’t going to take a lot of thinking back through lists of books that I have read and only vaguely recall. This week’s prompt is the first ten books I randomly […]
October went by in what felt like the blink of an eye, even though it wound up being more of a slower paced month. The month was a fun one, with a few birthdays and some holidays. For my family, it started out busy and slowed as the […]
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt […]
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother’s kitchen. […]
Hostage In a raw and unflinching memoir, Eli Sharabi, a survivor of 491 days in Hamas captivity, recounts the harrowing ordeal of his abduction from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, 2023, the loss of his wife and daughters, and his unyielding resolve to survive. “I refuse to let […]
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