Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

Books, libraries and librarians. Who can live without them? Nobody in my family. Growing up in Brownsville in the late ’40s and ’50s, libraries were unavailable in the elementary schools. It was not ...

The evolution of a tiny group of mostly Jewish New York intellectuals from left-wing radicals in the late 1930s and ’40s to confidants of the Reagan and both Bush administrations continues to ...

SINGAPORE: Once upon a time, it seemed everyone read for pleasure. My earliest memories saw my dad read the newspaper at the breakfast table every morning, while my mother read to me each night before ...

It’s not that I don’t understand challenging books in the public schools. I once refused to sign a permission slip to let my 12-year-old watch “Mississippi Burning” in class. But it wasn’t a book.

Rabbi David Kasher, associate rabbi at IKAR, is a self-described “Torah nerd.” For five years, he kept up a weekly parsha blog and became totally immersed in Torah commentary. He had books open all ...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu laments the hard time non-blockbusters have catching browsers' attention on bookstore shelves. He details the thought-process that a potential reader goes through in making ...