Category: Monday Morning Reading

I first heard about this book about 30 years ago when my uncle, who has a PhD in physics, told me that Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, a memoir by the Nobel-Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, was his favourite book.  At the time I had a lot of wonderful reading options in front of me,…

As this book came out some time ago, and was very widely read at the time, it may be that many of you have read Out of the Depths, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau’s biography.  I finally picked it up over the summer when I saw it at a bookstore. I read the first third, about…

The Israelis: Fathers and Sons, by Amos Elon, is one of those books that I felt I should have read, but never did.  I recently came across the book on someone else’s bookshelf, and knew it was perfect for my summer reading.  The Israelis, written in 1971, begins by describing the post 1967 sense of…