This week, Rober­ta Rich, the author of The Mid­wife of Venice and a new book, The Harem Mid­wife, blogs for The Post­script on the the amaz­ing (true!) sto­ries that…

Ear­li­er this week, Michèle Fitous­si wrote about her fas­ci­na­tion with Hele­na Rubin­stein and her deci­sion to write the biog­ra­phy Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who…

Michèle Fitous­si is the author of screen­plays, fic­tion and non-fic­tion, includ­ing the inter­na­tion­al best­sellers Superwoman’s had Enough and The Pris­on­er. She also…

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…

Josh Weil, author of the recent­ly pub­lished The Great Glass Sea, is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.Any run-in with…

by Dina Wein­steinGertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was a rule-break­ing poet and writer, sup­port­er of the arts, and salon hostess.The Poet­ry Foun­da­tion describes Stein as…