Evergreen

Jewish tradition says no. Here’s why.

Why does the holiest day of the Jewish year begin with a dry legal formula renouncing vows?

Don't believe in God? Reward and punishment? The obligations of Jewish law? Here's why you might want to fast anyway.

Orly Castel-Bloom's novel is not for the faint of heart.

The first pages of this novel introduce its terrifying protagonist.

Philip Roth's "The Counterlife" explores contradictory realities through its protagonist, Nathan Zuckerman.

Leslie Epstein's controversial novel explores Jewish power dynamics in the Lodz Ghetto.

"Life and Fate" brings the reader to World War II-era Russia, where the novel was written.

Vassily Grossman's "Life and Fate" was smuggled out of Stalinist Russia, where it takes place.

Bernard Malamud's "The Assistant" explores Jewish identity in Depression-era Brooklyn.