By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to the Jewish Sound Seder in the Desert (Lerner Publishing) shares a new vision of holiday celebration written by Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold, founder and spiritual leader of The Adventure Rabbi: Synagogue Without Walls. Korngold lives in Boulder, Colo., with her husband, noted photographer JeffContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The words “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah,” automatically brings a certain tune and song to the minds of almost all readers. Whether or not you were alive when this Allan Sherman song became a hit, most Americans know it or have heard it parodied — thoughContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Holocaust Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by Helga Weiss (Norton, cloth, $24.95). What makes this Holocaust memoir different than others is that the author’s diary survived the Shoah. A quick thinking 15-year-old, she lied about her age whenContinue Reading
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By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist Speaking from Miami, about halfway through his book tour for “The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century,” David Laskin was pleased with how the trip was going. Published by Viking, “The Family” is Laskin’s own family’s saga of “ur-20th-century Jewish stories,”Continue Reading
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