Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough

How many can lay claim to a phrase like “Who do you think you are—Sarah Bernhardt?”

When Glenn Kurtz happened upon an old family film in a closet of his parents’ home in Florida, he was intrigued.

When a Jew moves to Israel, she returns not only to her people’s ancient homeland, replete with many wonderful and seriously challenging dimensions, but she also “returns” to Hebrew.

I always read the Lilith slush pile with a kind feverish, burgeoning hope—maybe this is the story that will make the hair on the back of my neck rise up.

Although born and raised in New York City, Dana Aynn Levin always considered herself a California girl at heart. 

You knew Helena Rubinstein. That is, even if you didn’t actually know her, you know her type: the smart, feisty, implacably-willed Jewish woman.

In Friedman’s skilled hands, the quotidian stuff and mess of the world come together in a benign—and even divine—order.

Writing a novel usually begins with a character tapping me on the shoulder…

In Tender is the Brisket, Stacia Freedman hones in on women writers who are, in her description, “on their way up, down and sideways.”