A multi-million dollar catch. The Jewish actor and writer signed a mega deal with Random House Publishing last week for $3.7 million for her upcoming book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned, and although critics have been arguing that the deal is over the top, the expectations that come… More ▸
A vacuum-like robot that cleans the house and a spunky Israeli girl on an underground adventure in Jerusalem are among the characters featured in new children’s books for Passover. More ▸
Turns out, Joseph Gordon Levitt’s “Indie” itch extends beyond “500 Days of Summer.” He is also involved in an open-collaboration media company called hitRECord, where he is the director as well as a contributor, and goes by the moniker RegularJOE. Since pseudo-intellectualism is all the rage in Hollywood, hitRECord released a volume of short shorts… More ▸
Eishes Chayil, the pseudonym used by the author of the young adult novel “Hush,” has revealed her real name as Judy Brown. More ▸
Rhyming verse, lively family scenes, a cute pig who eats kosher pickles — and yes, menorahs, latkes and the Maccabees — are featured in a new crop of Chanukah books for children written by some of the country’s most popular award-winning writers. More ▸
A British Jewish author won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for a comic book about what it means to be Jewish today. More ▸
A roundup of this year’s crop of Chanukah children’s books. More ▸
A Ukrainian national commission banned two xenophobic books that it said incite interethnic hatred. More ▸
Jimmy Carter published a new book on how to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. More ▸
A book that traces the lives and friendship of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel won an award for Jewish children’s literature. More ▸
