nonfiction

I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...

If being Jewish were in the blood, then what better way to find the markers of Jewishness then by studying blood ...

In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...

In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...

When my son Noah was about 3 or 4, he came home from school one day and asked me, “Abba, ...

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...

When you tell someone that you used to do gymnastics, she frequently answers that she, too, did it. When she ...

Matthew Shaer is the author of Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights. He ...

On Monday, Tom Fields-Meyer took a look at autism and God. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book ...

This was a post that previous appeared on the MyJewishLearning/Jewish Book Council blog. As I write this blog post, I ...