Few cities have had as rich and varied a history as Trieste, whose borders have been defined and redefined countless time.

The title of this ambitious, compassionate tale of four women who love, lose and rededicate themselves to life refers to a “solemn, ancient, sacred” burial ritual, a hesed…

How do you describe colors to a blind person? Can you convey the shadings, the nuances, the intensities? In The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman asks the reader…

An exchange of glances between a woman and a man in a Tel Aviv café. The woman exits and the man runs after her.

Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have teamed up again for the second golem mystery. And novelist Ona Russell sets her historical whodunit in 1920s Los Angeles, among the Jewish…

Whether we agree with Hasidism or not, it behooves us to know more about these fast-growing communities that are transforming the demography of American Jewry.

Given the virulent and irrational anti-Israel climate prevalent on college campuses, Nora Gold’s insightful and fluid novel is most welcome.

Daniel Silva has invested more than his usual meticulous plotting in The English Spy, his latest book in the popular series featuring Mossad spy Gabriel Allon.