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When I was doing the walks in Mahaneh Yehuda, the vendors started calling me “The shuk lady,” so I have on my computer my unfinished cookbook titled The Shuk Lady Cooks.

The basic theme is “If you’re Jewish, follow your parents’ advice – Don’t marry a non-Jew because look what can happen if you do!”

Tishby gives a quick and easy but fascinating overview of her country, well-researched, with many factoids that will surprise even Jewish history aficionados.

Veteran Israeli journalist Isabel Kershner's book has deftly painted a colorful portrait of all of us – warts, quarrels, achievements and failings.

Helen Joyce uses her real-life family histories as the basis of her semi-history, semi-novel that traces the traumatic impact of 20th-century politics on a Jewish family.

For American readers, the book brings Israeli nature into their hands. For English speakers in Israel, this material – Israeli nature – becomes more accessible.

Jerusalem chef Ronen Avichail’s oil inventions are rapidly becoming a big hit on the Israeli culinary scene, making life in the kitchen much easier and much tastier.

A joint Zoom symposium in Jerusalem and London examines the quasi-legal business of antiquities trading in Israel.

The Special Olympics were not active in Israel for many years, while the government funded the regular Olympics and Paralympics. But Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar gave it recognition.

In the medical field, there are many terms and physical conditions that are named for people or trace their origins to Latin roots.