Sh'ma
Reviews
The Sh'ma literary pages include literary essays and
reviews of books, films, and other cultural arts. These pages feature
an array of talented writers who bring our readers new expressions of
Jewish thought, imagination, and spirit.
Birds and Life reviewed by Haim Watzman
Prophecies Unfulfilled reviewed by Sean R. Singer
Women Remaking American
Judaism reviewed by Judith Rosenbaum
Changing Families
reviewed by Caryn Aviv
Prayers from
the Heart reviewed by Elisheva Carlebach
Exploring the
Alliance reviewed by Michael Kress
Emma Lazarus: Poet
of Exile reviewed by Alicia Ostriker
Transforming
Synagogues reviewed by Jack Bloom
Visionary Leadership
reviewed by Jen Glaser
The Mighty and the
Almighty reviewed by Marc Gopin
God Is Everything,
in Drag reviewed by Elie Spitz
New Lives reviewed
by Kenneth Moss
Revisiting
the Pedagogy and Purpose of Holocaust Education reviewed by Maurice
Elias
Assigning
New Meaning to Yiddish Culture reviewed by Amelia Glaser
Approaching
Jewish Law reviewed by Ken Koltun-Fromm
Healing a Fractured
World reviewed by Daniel Septimus
Reading the Bible
reviewed by Benjamin D. Sommer
The Young and the
Restless: Works by Young writers reviewed by Michal Lemberger
Understanding
the Prophets reviewed by Jill Jacobs
Reading a Memoir
and Hearing a Prayer reviewed by Diane Cole
Who We Are reviewed by
Michal Lemberger Memoir and Family
Redemption reviewed by David BialeExegesis
and Ritual Cookbook reviewed by Jill Hammer
Artist, Wanderer,
Jew reviewed by Matthew Hoffman
A Magisterial
Volume reviewed by Neil Gillman
Tolerance reviewed
by Marc Gopin
Where Only
Prophets Dare to Tread reviewed by Harold M. Schulweis
Midrashic Tales
reviewed by Jonathan Kirsch
Out of Poverty
reviewed by Daniel Sokatch
Spiritual Guidance
and Social Change reviewed by David Arnow
Israel's History of
Settlements reviewed by Mitchell B. Hart
An Ever-Revitalizing
People? reviewed by Dianne Ashton
Revisioning Jewish
Education reviewed by Michael Zeldin
How America
Prays reviewed by Sue Fishkoff
Love Your Neighbor
and Yourself, Elliot N. Dorff, reviewed by Erica Brown
Knocking on Heaven’s
Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture reviewed by
Mark Oppenheimer
Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering and the Human Condition, Ed. David Schatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Rueven Ziegler
Death, Burial and
Afterlife in the Biblical World reviewed by Rachel S. Hallote
The Committed Marriage
reviewed by Esther Jungreis HarperSan Francisco
Divorce is a Mitzvah:
A Practical Guide to Finding Wholeness and Holiness When Your Marriage
Dies reviewed by Rabbi Perry Netter
Speeddating: A Timesaving Guide to Finding
Your Lifelong Love reviewed by Yaacov and Sue Deyo Harper
Making a Successful Jewish
Interfaith Marriage reviewed by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky with Joan Peterson
Littman
Irreconciliable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel
Steven T. Rosenthal
Fighting to Become Americans: Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men
Riv-Ellen PrellEtz Hayim: Torah and Commentary Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe Derek J. Penslar
The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettTorah of the Mothers: Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts Edited by Ora Wiskind Elper and Susan Handelman And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia Etan Diamond Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journey of Faith Robert WuthnowThe Jewish Political Tradition, Volume I, AuthorityMichael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar and Yair Lorberbaum (eds.), A Feminist Ethic of Risk Sharon D. Welch
The Power of Ideas Isaiah Berlin
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