A Memoir: THE GENIUS of JUDAISM by Bernard Henri Levy

From goodreads.com:

In The Genius of Judaism Europe’s foremost philosopher and activist confronts his own spiritual roots and the religion that has always inspired and shaped him—but that he has never fully reckoned with. The result is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of Judaism and what it means to be a Jew, a vision quite different from the one we’re used to. Taking us from a fresh, surprising critique of an anti-Semitism Bernard-Henri Lévy sees on the rise in a new and stealthy form today, to a provocative defense of Israel from the left, to a secret history of the Jewish roots of Western democratic ideals, to a call to confront the current Islamist threat while intellectually dismantling it, Lévy explains how Jews are not a “chosen people” but a “treasure” whose spirit continues to—and must—inform moral thinking and courage today.

The Bellevue Literary Review

Finding Home: Family & Connections

BJ member Ronna Blaser is a Founding Editor of The Bellevue Literary Review and the Senior Fiction Editor. The Bellevue Literary Review was created in 2000 as a forum for creatively exploring a broad array of issues in medicine and society, using fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to better understand the nuanced tensions that define our lives both in illness and in health.

The fall 2017 BLR is a themed issue: "Finding Home: Family & Connections." This issue of the journal explores the meaning of family, its strengths and limitations, and the shifting definition of family in our contemporary world. "No human thing is more universal than illness, in all its permutations, and no literary publication holds more credibility on the subject than the Bellevue Literary Review." -- NewPages.com

On Bittersweet Place: A NOVEL

This item is for a novel:  On Bittersweet Place and a Collection of Short Stories.

ON BITTERSWEET PLACE by BJ member Ronna Wineberg, published by Relegation Books, tells the story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew, whose family flees from the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the 1920's, where Lena and her family settle.

The book explores family, self-discovery, young love, and the always relevant experience of the immigrant, the refugee, the outsider struggling to create a new home and better life in an unfamiliar place.

ON BITTERSWEET PLACE was the winner of the 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition.

The second book is a new collection of short stories, NINE FACTS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. The stories explore how the contemporary world affects our deepest relationships, our bonds to partners, spouses, children, parents and friends. The book also looks at how relationships change over time and how we come to terms with the past.