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(JTA) — A global bestseller by a Jewish Holocaust victim; a novel by a beloved and politically conservative Jewish American writer; a memoir of

A purge of books from Orange County, FL Public Schools to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive have deemed a Holocaust book as too offensive to read.

The Color Purple author Alice Walked was disinvited to Bay Area Book Festival for anti-Israel and antisemitic comments

The Bay Area Book Festival has rescinded an invitation to author Alice Walker over incendiary statements she has made over the years about Jews and Israel.

10 Mindful Books to Inspire You This Year What’s on your reading list for 2021? To get you started, here are 10 books (and three podcasts) that help us reflect, celebrate, practice, and find balance. Sarah Wilson • Dey St. Anyone who read Sarah Wilson’s First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, her remarkable 2018 memoir about shifting our approach to anxiety and mental illness, will have high expectations for this new book. Her goal, she writes, was to find a way to talk about the feeling tha...