Reviews

It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses

June 7, 2024

Abigail Pogrebin and Dov Linzer. Fig Tree, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-941493-34-2 Rabbi Linzer and journalist Pogrebin (My Jewish Year) discuss 52 weekly readings of the Torah in this intellectually lively adaptation of their Parsha in Progress podcast. Aiming to step outside their “echo chambers,” the authors draw fresh insights from such familiar stories as Abraham’s […]

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Jacobo’s Rainbow Reviews

May 15, 2021

Post-publication Reviews JACOBO’S RAINBOW, DAVID HIRSHBERG’s second novel (it follows MY MOTHER’S SON) is, without a doubt, one of the best literary novels pertaining to the American Jewish experience that’s come along in quite a while. This book is creative, clever, and highly imaginative. It’s got everything you want in a good read: beautiful language, […]

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Saving Free Speech Review

October 14, 2019

In this book, Thane Rosenbaum explores whether the United States is best served by unlimited speech—extended even to  terrorists of the left and right,  as well as other enemies of the open society—or whether certain restrictions on the 1st Amendment are necessary for a free society to not be subverted from within.    With a strong grasp […]

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Saving Free Speech Review

October 14, 2019

Many books, including my own, celebrate the degree to which American First Amendment law provides more protection for more speech than anywhere in the world. Saving FREE SPEECH … from ITSELF  vigorously offers  a forceful and provocative contrarian view that takes issue with much established First Amendment law in a robust and arresting manner.⎯⎯Floyd Abrams, […]

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Saving Free Speech Review

October 14, 2019

This book will make you think and re-think your positions on free speech—regardless of what those were.  It may not change your mind; I still disagree with much of it.  But for those of us who value free thought, expression, debate and dissent, Thane Rosenbaum’s thought-provoking challenge to current First Amendment norms should be especially […]

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Saving Free Speech Review

October 14, 2019

This is a brave, incisive book that smartly challenges much of what we take for granted about the First Amendment.⎯⎯Scott Turow, the author of two works of non-fiction about the law and 13 bestselling novels, including Presumed Innocent and the The Last Trial to be published by Grand Central in May 2020. 

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My Mother’s Son – Interview with Deborah Kalb

May 3, 2018

Q&A with David Hirshberg – May 3, 2018 (http://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com) David Hirshberg, the pseudonym for an entrepreneur and business executive, is the author of the new novel My Mother’s Son, which takes place in Boston in the 1950s. Q: How did you come up with the idea for My Mother’s Son, and for the family you […]

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My Mother’s Son – Elyse Walters’ Blog

May 2, 2018

“My Mother’s Son” by David Hirshberg Elyse Walters Nov 10, 2017 A highly pleasurable novel…engrossing and irresistible! We are transported back to the 1950’s through the voice of Joel, who for forty-seven years had worked as a radio raconteur. Upon retirement, Joel writes his memoir: “Reflected in it is a story both personal and universal that […]

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My Mother’s Son – Books and Blintzes

May 2, 2018

Books and Blintzes – January 29, 2018 (https://booksandblintzes.com/category/literature/book-reviews/) David Hirsherg’s debut novel My Mother’s Son is a celebration of family in all its complex imperfections. The narrative centers around a retiring radio personality, Joel, telling his own story about growing up in post-war Boston. Local and international politics, the relationships between Joel’s Jewish and other […]

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My Mother’s Son – Phil Jason Reviews Books

May 2, 2018

(https://philjason.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/melting-pot-boston-in-mid-twentieth-century-explored-from-jewish-perspective/) This is one beautiful book. It portrays a pivotal period in U. S. history flavored by the scrambling lives of European immigrants, their acculturated children, and their more fully Americanized grandchildren. Its action springs from family and historical events of 1952-1953, though it manages to cover decades both before and after. The narrator, not […]

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