I've learned something over the years about lectures, plays and museum programs. If I spend five minutes learning a few things before I walk in, I almost always enjoy the experience more. Not because I know what's going to happen, but because I know...

  After more than 40 years in broadcast journalism, including 17 years as CBS News' White House correspondent covering six presidents, Peter Maer kept hearing the same advice. You should write a book. His answer rarely changed. "I used to...

  During our recent vacation, my wife and I decided we needed something new to watch. The first thing that popped up when we turned on our Airbnb condo TV was a promo for the new Netflix limited series "I Will Find You." I'll admit it....

  I've taken my kids sledding on Art Hill. I've walked the Zoo, wandered the trails and, years ago, even rode a Forest Park Century, circling the park roughly 17 times to complete a 100-mile ride. Like generations of St. Louisans, I've...

Unpacked is the #1 Jewish educational media brand for today’s digital generation, presenting insightful, inspiring and nuanced content around Israel, Judaism and all things Jewish. More at unpacked.media More than two decades before Rabbi Naftali...

  (JTA) — When David Freedman discovered a long-forgotten photo album in his parents’ Montreal basement last year, he found nearly 100 pages of century-old photographs from his grandfather’s year in British Mandate Palestine, capturing...

  Flora Cassen has released a new book, “Stained Glass: A Reflective History of Antisemitism.” It traces a Jewish life shaped by family and history, moving between medieval Europe to the aftermath of the Holocaust and into the present....

  Mark Heller’s first book, “Scoop Dreams & Rocky Roads: Hard-Learned Lessons from the Frontlines of a Global Ice Cream Franchisee,” will debut on June 1. It reflects his time as owner/operator of eight Ben & Jerry’s ice cream...

  This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The Pickled City: The Story of New York Pickles By Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulder Chronicle Books,...

A scientist who spent decades studying how the world works says Judaism helped him understand why it matters. That realization eventually led Eduard Shyfrin back to Jewish learning and to writing about what he believes Jewish tradition still has to...

Jenna Weissman Joselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her book on the American “embrace” of the Ten Commandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the Jewish Lives biography series, a Yale...

  Claire Saffitz loves desserts. That’s immediately evident from the title of the St. Louis native’s first book: “Dessert Person.” Saffitz, 39, is now a New York-based recipe developer, food host and dessert chef. She was recently...