Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of an Israeli-American hostage, is among the Jews named in Time Magazine's 2024 Most Influential list for her advocacy in securing the release of captives in Gaza.

James McBride's novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, has won two National Jewish Book Awards, making McBride the first African-American author to achieve this.

The winners of the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards have been announced.

Jeremy Eichler's book, "Times Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance," has been named the Jewish Book Council's Book of the Year.

In his latest novel, "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store," James McBride explores the complex history of Black-Jewish relations in America.

In James McBride's new novel, "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store," he creates a fictional neighborhood, Chicken Hill, where the Black and Jewish communities intersect in the 1920s to the 1970s.