Books
Tales of lockdown give immediacy to Palo Alto retiree’s short story collection
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Ben, a 42-year-old theater manager, lives alone in a Brooklyn…
Books
New book explores taboos around women’s sexuality in the Orthodox world
A religious woman struggles with discovering her attraction to women while being married to her husband. Another grapples with being sexually assaulted by…
Parenting
I’m baffled by the books my kids love — and thrilled
“I was determined to be the best and fastest tree climber in the family,” my husband told my children. “So I kicked him in the head while he was standing…
Books
Local rabbi’s mom chooses post-Holocaust theme for first novel
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Meryl Ain’s debut novel, “The Takeaway Men,” which follows a Polish…
Art
Tawonga staffer's coloring book encourages you to color 'Outside the Lines'
Sometime during this unprecedented year, Bay Area illustrator Meg Adler decided that what the world needed most was a coloring book. Not just any coloring…
Off the Shelf
Secrets kept, secrets revealed in two debut novels
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. When somebody close to us dies, we cannot predict the shadow that…
Books
SFSU professor wins Cowan literary prize for Biblical whodunnit
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Journalist and San Francisco State University associate professor…
History
17th-century Jewish memoir offers a glimpse of life during a plague
More than 350 years ago, a plague took a deadly toll on Hamburg, Germany. As the High Holidays approached, fear and panic set in and many of the city’s…
Books
Goodbye book tours: new authors go virtual
In a normal year, the Jewish Book Council’s annual conference is something of a variety show where hundreds of authors take to the podium with two minutes…