Gila Wertheimer

Aug 30, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Gila Wertheimer

Review By – August 30, 2024 In the Talmud, women are mostly identified as ​“mother of” or ​“wife of,” but not by name. For centuries, women were forbidden to even study the sacred work. In this unique book, Gila Fine discusses six women, all named, whose stories are told in the Talmud. She uses literary analysis to give us a contemporary look at the negative archetypes usually ascribed to these women.

Aug 7, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Gila Wertheimer

Review By – August 12, 2024 On Sep­tem­ber 13, 1993, on the White House lawn, Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chair­man Yass­er Arafat shook hands after sign­ing the peace agree­ment known as the Oslo Accords. It was sup­posed to have led to a per­ma­nent peace. (In)sights is a his­tor­i­cal record of the Oslo Accords, illus­trat­ed with per­son­al stories.

May 30, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Gila Wertheimer

The evening news on Sep­tem­ber 6, 1970 began: ​“A TWA flight from Tel Aviv was hijacked short­ly after take­off from Frank­furt, and com­man­do lead­ers say that it has land­ed at a rev­o­lu­tion­ary air­port some­where in Jordan.” Aboard that plane were two young girls, ages twelve and thir­teen, trav­el­ing as what would be clas­si­fied today as ​“unac­com­pa­nied minors.” They were on their way back to their father’s home in New York after spend­ing the sum­mer with their moth­er and...

Apr 3, 2024 | l8r.it | Gila Wertheimer

Review Judges' Remarks By – February 5, 2024 Although 1936 is not a date in Mid­dle East his­to­ry that res­onates in the way the years 1948, 1967, and now 2023 do, it was a land­mark year for both Jew­ish and Arab nation­al­ism. And, as Oren Kessler points out in his new book, it was also the begin­ning of the end of British Man­date rule in Pales­tine. In hind­sight, it was a pre­lude to the cre­ation of the mod­ern State of Israel.

Feb 5, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Gila Wertheimer

Review By – February 5, 2024 Although 1936 is not a date in Mid­dle East his­to­ry that res­onates in the way the years 1948, 1967, and now 2023 do, it was a land­mark year for both Jew­ish and Arab nation­al­ism. And, as Oren Kessler points out in his new book, it was also the begin­ning of the end of British Man­date rule in Pales­tine. In hind­sight, it was a pre­lude to the cre­ation of the mod­ern State of Israel.