Ruby Namdar News Today

A piece by Ruby Namdar, a participant in the 2024 Jerusalem International Writers Festival in Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

Despite challenges, the Jerusalem International Writers Festival, featuring John Irving and Simon Schama, perseveres, aiming to unite amid grief and promote literature's solace.

‘I was pro-Israel in 1981, and I’m not less pro-Israel now,’ says acclaimed novelist.

  (New York Jewish Week) — A family of ashen, burned bodies sits around their kitchen table, their expressions frozen in terror — hands pressed against gaping mouths, silently screaming. An elderly couple, hands bound in rope behind their backs, embraces as blood pools around them and flames lick at their feet. A mother grips […]

Good Friday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Conservative teens’ choices for gap-year programs after the halting of Nativ and the election of Annie Sandler as the next president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. We feature an opinion piece by Rabbi Daniel...

Books to celebrate Hanukkah this year: 'Eight Dates and Nights,' 'It's a Whole Spiel,' 'The Matzah Ball,' 'The Frozen Rabbi,' and more.

Namdar Left Israel 23 Years Ago, but His Israeli and Hebrew Identity Is Alive and Kicking. Speaking With Haaretz Upon the Release of His Latest Book, ‘Big Fish,’ He Accuses the Government of Toxic Isolationism and Is Still Angry About the Uproar That Followed His Winning the Sapir Prize

(JTA) — Novelist Ruby Namdar’s appearance at a major conference of European Jewish leaders wasn’t meant to include a speech to an empty chair. But there he was on Sunday

The gathering included leaders and Jewish professionals from 35 communities across Europe and covered a broad range of topics

As Jews with strong ties to Israel, communities on the continent express frustration with its eroding democratic values and policies that affect them even in their own countries