Temima Shulman

Saving grace of Sandy: face time

PASSAIC, NJ — It is long past midnight and I have just put all the pots and pans to bed, reluctantly setting up...

Art and Torah

IN Talia Carner’s newest novel, Jerusalem Maiden, Esther Kaminsky, a young teenage girl growing up in the old world neighborhood of Meah Shearim...

Fiction portends pain, recreates home

IT is hard to know what kind of story David Grossman would have written in his newest novel, To the End of the...

The world to come

WITH all the hoopla surrounding Dara Horn’s newest novel All Other Nights, I thought I would take a look back at some of...

Wherever you go

IN her first novel, Wherever You Go, Joan Leegant attempts to address an aspect of Jewish contemporary life — American religious Judaism and...