Inde­pen­dent Book­store Day is this week­end! If you’re vis­it­ing your local book­store to sup­port your local lit­er­ary anchor on Sat­ur­day — or any day of the week — let us…

The Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff shares what we’ve been read­ing over the last month:Car­olynHow did the small coun­try of Israel, with a pop­u­la­tion of only six…

Find out what the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff is read­ing this month!MimiSaba­ba by Yamin Levy is an inter­est­ing book of two sto­ries, both tak­ing place in Jerusalem, but…

Car­olLast week, in the wake of Don­ald Trump’s vic­to­ry and Leonard Cohen’s death, I reached for Liel Lei­bovitz’s thought­ful and illu­mi­nat­ing 2013 med­i­ta­tion on…

Bec­caNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilli­gan is about a fam­i­ly of Irish Jews over three gen­er­a­tions, writ­ten by a young writer who became…

Post­ed by Salma FelahCar­olThis month, I am read­ing The Sev­en Good Years by Etgar Keret. It is as fun­ny, as odd, and as true as his unfor­get­table and…

Post­ed by Salma FalahMiriSacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo GenizaCar­olynThe Impe­r­i­al WifeBec­caNum­ber the Stars: 25th Anniver­sary EditionSophie…

Post­ed by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has been read­ing for the month of August!Mimi“This month, I’m read­ing The Last Sum­mer at Chelsea…

Post­ed by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has been read­ing for the month of July!MimiI’m read­ing two books this month. The first one is…

What we’re read­ing this month:Nat: Night in Shang­hai (Nicole Mon­es) | Nao­mi: J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (Thomas Beller)Car­ol: Becom­ing Frum (Sarah Bunin Benor) |…

What we’re read­ing this month:Nat: The Con­fab­u­list (Steven Gal­loway) | Nao­mi: Amer­i­can Inno­va­tions (Riv­ka Galchen)Car­olyn: Love & Trea­sure (Ayelet…

What we’re read­ing this month:Suzanne: The Harem Mid­wife (Rober­ta Rich) | Nao­mi: A Bin­tel Brief (Liana Finck)Miri: The Inn at Lake Devine (Eli­nor Lip­man) | Nat:…

What we’re read­ing this month:Suzanne: The UnAmer­i­cans (Mol­ly Antopol) | Nao­mi: What’s Impor­tant is Feel­ing (Adam Wil­son)Miri: A Bride For One Night (Ruth…

What we’re read­ing this month:Suzanne: My Promised Land (Ari Shav­it) | Nao­mi: All Rus­sians Love Birch Trees (Olga Grjas­nowa)Mimi: An Amer­i­can Bride in Kab­ul…

What we’re read­ing this month:Suzanne: The Jew and the Pope (Sybil Ter­res Gilmar) | Car­ol: Unclean Lips (Josh Lam­bert)Miri: Joy Comes in the Morn­ing (Jonathan…

What we’re read­ing this month:Nao­mi: S. (J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst) | Suzanne: And So It Was Writ­ten (Ellen Braz­er)Nat: Total­ly Unof­fi­cial (Raphael Lemkin;…