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The Manhattan bookstore that wouldn't host her: Lihi Lapid on what October 7 did to Israeli authors

She landed every novelist's dream: a deal with HarperCollins, a Manhattan launch, a TV adaptation. Then May 2024 arrived, and not a single bookstore would have her.

Lihi Lapid on what October 7 did to Israeli authors
R.F. Kuang attends the Girls Write Now Awards 2024 at DVF Studio on Oct. 10, 2024, in New York City.

Backlash grows over Israeli character in R.F. Kuang’s upcoming novel 'Taipei Story'

The Irgun Museum in Tel Aviv.

'The Gavriel Tirosh Affair': Unforgettable teacher, lingering memory - review

From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award


Next up for Adam Sandler’s production company: A YA bat mitzvah novel adaptation

Just months after Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah party, it looks like his production company is making a bat mitzvah-themed film.

Adam Sandler poses backstage with his Best Male Lead award for "Uncut Gems."

'Hidden Saint': The Jewish fantasy novel now a reality - review

‘The Hidden Saint’ features a heroic rabbi battling demons.

 MONASTERY IN Lizhensk, Poland (contemporary view).

‘The Boy In The Striped Pajamas,’ decried for its Holocaust inaccuracies, is getting a sequel

According to British education observers, the book's prominence in classrooms may perpetuate myths and fallacies about the Holocaust.

DANCERS MATTHEW Koon as Bruno and Filippo Di Vilio as Shmuel in the ballet adaptation of 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.'

Sharon Stone partners with ex- ‘Jerusalem Post’ editor for new film

Lisa Barr, who in the 1990s edited In Jerusalem, the local supplement of The Jerusalem Post, has written two previous novels, The Unbreakables and Fugitive Colors.

 Lisa Barr

Israeli author wins Sydney Taylor Award for YA novel on Orthodox teens

Titled 'The Last Words We Said,' the book was written Leah Scheier, who made aliyah from Baltimore in 2008 and currently lives in Modi'in.

 Leah Scheier.

Forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem published in English for first time

Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz (1859-1916), was a masterful storyteller whose keen eye, wit and humor earned him the reputation as the Jewish Mark Twain.

STATUE OF Sholom Aleichem, Kiev.

Idealism duped by intolerance masquerading as morality - book review

By reminding us that well-intentioned idealists were duped half a century ago, it warns us that similar intolerance is once more entrapping the college kids.

 The 1960s were a period of radical protest.

Learning about life’s complexities and religion through writing

Sally Rooney's new, much-anticipated novel Beautiful World, Where Are You is just as irresistible as her previous work, yet much more frustrating.

   CHRIST CHURCH  Cathedral Dublin.  The book explores  a range of religious,  philosophical and  sociological questions  of a writer in Ireland

Joshua Cohen’s ‘The Netanyahus’ analyzes the famous family

The novel “The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family,” examines the family through the story of one night.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a special session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on Sunday.

Gal Gadot to star in adaptation of sci-fi romance novel

The debut novel, Meet Me in Another Life, which just came out in the US on Wednesday, is also listed as No. 3 in “LGBT Thrillers” and No. 6 in “LGBT Science Fiction.”

GAL GADOT: I want to use my reach and my platforms to get to as many people and shed light on these amazing, incredible women’s stories.