Post­ed by Nat BernsteinAs sum­mer pro­grams and, God will­ing, this sum­mer’s war between Israel and Hamas draw to a close, one has to won­der at the expe­ri­ences of the…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinThe find­ings of the Pew Research Cen­ter sur­vey of Unit­ed States Jews pub­lished last fall indi­cat­ed a rise in Jew­ish inter­mar­riage that…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinThis week at the farm­ers mar­ket I mar­veled at the fresh cur­rants cur­rent­ly in sea­son: spher­i­cal crim­son and blush-col­ored jew­els on…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinThe micro­cosm encased with­in a glass ter­rar­i­um on the book cov­er for Bar­bara Klein Moss’s forth­com­ing nov­el The Lan­guage of…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinLiel Lei­bovitz is par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 2014 – 2015 JBC Net­work with A Bro­ken Hal­lelu­jah: The Life of Leonard Cohen. It is…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinWe are all still reel­ing from the past weeks of ter­ror and grief over the mur­ders of Naf­tali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrah, three Jew­ish young…

JBC’s Nat Bern­stein recent­ly sat down with Joshua Max Feld­man to dis­cuss his debut nov­el, The Book of Jon­ah, which will be pub­lished on Feb­ru­ary 4th by Hen­ry Holt and…

If ever there was a harsh reminder that Tu B’shvat is not a cel­e­bra­tion of the spring, this year would be it. Just a few short weeks since Jerusalem was…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein Yes, if you’re won­der­ing, my par­ents have been fol­low­ing the entire Eight Nights of Sto­ries blog series. My mom has no mem­o­ry of the night she…

Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Sto­ries series here.Hanukkah Bear by Eric A. Kim­mel; illus. Mike Wohnout­kaI have to admit, I was extreme­ly puz­zled when…

We know, it seems far too ear­ly to be plan­ning for Chanukah. For all the ​“Thanks­givin­gukkah” fren­zy that’s been about since the start of autumn, the cal­en­dric…

The Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is pub­lish­ing an extend online edi­tion of our Jew­ish Book World inter­view with Adelle Wald­man, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., over…