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Do you deeply love your Burberry trench?” — and got scores of responses.
The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...
When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...
Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...
If you can go to the Amazon, the antarctic or the Galápagos, by all means do so. But when you get back, you need not stop your explorations simply because you happen to live in an asphalt jungle ...
It was in 1996 — a year after Rabin’s assassination — when Roberts was back in Israel to photograph that anniversary that he first conceived of a book of his Israel photos. Hebrew Union College Press ...
Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...
Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...
PJC Nechama Goldman Barash is the director of the Pardes Learning Seminar at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. This first appeared on JNS.