Rabbi Buchdahl is being installed as the senior rabbi at the historic Central Synagogue in New York. We profiled the prominent rabbi and cantor in June 2013.

The Secret Legacy of Biblical Women: Revealing the Divine Feminine by Melinda Ribner. (Self-published, 312 pp. $18 paper) In this startling and passionate book, Melinda

Almost 30 years ago, Simon Schama wrote that “all history tends towards autobiographical confession.” Now Schama ranges across lands and times and languages to confess through his own…

German sociologist and theoretician Theodor Adorno believed that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Brenda Webster, whose previous novels and translations give witness to both her narrative…

Love and Treasure: A Novel by Ayelet Waldman. (Knopf, 334 pp. $26.95) Salzberg, 1945. Salzberg, 1945. In the aftermath of World War II, American G.I.

Welcome to the site of Hadassah Magazine’s forthcoming blog, Pearls and Wisdom. We hope to bring you frequent news of Jewish happenings from across the

Rosh Hashana begins on September 24, as does the Shmita year.