Forty miles north of New York City lie the Hasidic enclaves of New Square, Kaser and Monsey. All in all, some 60,000 Hasidim live in these towns of Rockland County; some 20,000 are children. On ...

Indeed, the main message in her book, "Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress," is quite basic: Fashion among Muslim women, whether they are fully cloaked in a chador or wearing an Alexander ...

‘This book frankly leapt out of me,” writes John McWhorter, “during the summer of 2020.” The country was convulsed not just with Covid-19, but with protests in response to the killing of ...

Someone steeped in Islamic traditions may find Elizabeth Bucar’s exploration of style among Muslim women in Iran, Turkey and Indonesia to be a bit simplistic.

Marilynne Robinson, Little Brown, €21.99 Marilynne Robinson tries to come up with a new theology for our present age in her new book One of the great wonders of literary fiction is the way it ...

If, during the 12th century, rabbis applauded women as "pious and pure" because of their major role in ... The heart of Grossman’s book concerns the improvement of Jewish women’s lot and the efforts ...

For nearly 50 years, Steel wrote books and essays—many of them for The New Republic—that punctured the pious pretensions of presidents, senators, secretaries of state, and sometimes ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. The cover images on The Pious Robber (Thistledown Press, 160 pp; $18.95), Harriet Richards’ third book of fiction, and The Modern World (Oberon Press ...

Joseph Leycester Lyne was either a faithful thwarted prophet, or a volatile pious lunatic. Perhaps he was a heady combination of both; but Hugh Allen also leaves that judgement to the reader, and does ...

It is this characteristic of the Lord that drew US-based Indian author Sutikshan Prakash to pen his debut book “A God for All Seasons – Lord Ganesha”. The book explores the different facets ...