(JTA) — The United States Postal Service released a new series of Forever stamps Friday in honor of Shel Silverstein, the Jewish author and illustrator who died in 1999. The stamps commemorate what is perhaps Silverstein’s most famous book, “The...

In this vivid, lurid new book, Paul S.  Hirsch, a visiting history scholar at the University of Texas, compellingly explores the surprising extent to which the once lowly comic book industry was exploited by both sides of the Iron Curtain during the...