Yael Raviv is the author of Falafel Nation: Cui­sine and the Mak­ing of Nation­al Iden­ti­ty in Israel. She will be blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinFour­teen years after its orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, Etgar Keret’s sem­i­nal col­lec­tion of short sto­ries was reis­sued…

by Yos­si Klein HaleviMichael Oren is the author of three New York Times best­sellers, includ­ing his lat­est book, Ally: My Jour­ney Across the Amer­i­ca-Israeli Divide, an…

Excerpt­ed from Killing a King: The Assas­si­na­tion of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remak­ing of Israel by Dan Ephron.Yitzhak Rabin woke up before sev­en the morn­ing of Novem­ber…

Michael Gold­ing is the author of the nov­els Sim­ple Prayers, Benjamin’s Gift, and A Poet of the Invis­i­ble World, now out from Pic­a­dor. He will be blog­ging here all…

by Howard SchwartzJew­ish Book Coun­cil sat down with Dina Elen­bo­gen, poet and author of Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, An Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, An Israeli Sto­ry, to…

Jes­samyn Hope is the author of Safe­keep­ing, which has received crit­i­cal acclaim from The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, and Tablet Mag­a­zine. She will be blog­ging…