A novel set in New Jersey, focusing on a Vienna native and his granddaughter’s friend, won the inaugural Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. The $5,000 prize for Dara Horn’s “In the Image” will be presented at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations’ biennial next month in Minneapolis. Horn, 26, is a doctoral student in Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
Election 2016
- Orthodox Jewish group calls for day of unity to counter political rancor
- Study shows how Jewish vote could play crucial role in key states
- Bibi and Barack part amiably as chilly US-Israel relations thaw
- Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife, is a Christian who keeps kosher and Shabbat
- Trump campaign condemns appearance by acclaimed Palestinian teacher at Clinton Foundation event
- Obama at UN calls for end to Palestinian incitement, Israeli settlement
