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Literature

‘Communal Solidarity’ explores Jewish influx to Winnipeg’s North End from 1882-1930

Review by Regan Treewater-Lipes (EJNews) – Dr. Arthur Ross, a professor in the Politics and Public Administration Department at Ryerson University in Toronto, has recently…


A former Jewish punk rocker wrote an acclaimed novel about Holocaust memory

by Curt Schleier (JTA) — At first glance, Bram Presser looks more like a punk rocker than a sensitive novelist. He has two big lip…



5 takeaways from Chris Christie’s epic takedown of Jared Kushner

by Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — The broad contours of the enmity between Chris Christie, New Jersey’s former Republican governor, and Jared Kushner, President Donald…


Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art

by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with a lot of practice. But…