Leah Finkelshteyn

2 months ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Leah Finkelshteyn

Email Print This is “a book, about a book, about a book?” the boy asks the goat about midway through Dara Horn’s new Passover graphic novel. One Little Goat, for ages 8 and up, not only features the titular goat, but also time travel, a missing matzah and, ultimately, finding meaning in the seder in all its detail.

Jan 14, 2025 | hadassahmagazine.org | Leah Finkelshteyn

Email Print “Revered in some quarters, reviled in others, Marm Mandelbaum, as she was known, towered over the city as an earthy, expansive, diamond-encrusted presence: self-made entrepreneur, generous philanthropist, thieves’ mentor and gracious society hostess who plied her illicit trade largely in the open. A swath of the public admired her.

Sep 23, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Amir Tibon |David Grossman |Leah Finkelshteyn

Email Print The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s BorderlandsBy Amir Tibon (Little, Brown)Israeli journalist and author Amir Tibon hid with his wife and two young daughters for hours in a safe room in their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the border with Gaza, as Hamas terrorists devastated his community.

Aug 28, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Leah Finkelshteyn

Email Print How Isn’t It Going? Conversations After October 7By Delphine Horvilleur. Translated by Lisa Appignanesi (Europa Compass) A personal essay collection filled with cries of pain, attempts to reconcile the time before and after October 7 and, perhaps most surprisingly, moments of humor, Delphine Horvilleur’s latest is her powerful response to the shock and fracturing of the past year—as a Jew, a woman, a mother and a leader of a Jewish community—in just 91 pages.

Aug 27, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Leah Finkelshteyn

Email Print Alma Har’el is a consummate storyteller. The Israeli-born director, co-writer and showrunner of Lady in the Lake, an adaptation of Laura Lippman’s best-selling 2019 novel of the same name, has created a fascinating thriller that explores themes of race and gender.