“Queen Esther” is a sequel of sorts to “The Cider House Rules” (1985), one of John Irving’s most popular novels and the basis for a successful 1999 film. Dr. Larch, the man charged with making orphans ...

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For readers or moviegoers who know The Cider House Rules, a familiar character reappears in my 16th novel, Queen Esther. Dr. Larch, the obstetrician and abortionist at the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Me ...

Novelist John Irving says he knew he was on track when he figured out how “Queen Esther” would end. Now he faced a new challenge: How the story began. “Like all my novels, that’s the thing I see most ...

The actress, who plays agnostic sex podcaster Joanne on the show, told Parade last week that the script for a third season is up and under way. “You never know if you’re gonna be able to shoot because ...

Note: The following story contains spoilers from “Nobody Wants This” Season 2, Episode 10. Just as “Nobody Wants This” Season 2 ended with a dose of clarity for Kristen Bell’s Joanne and Adam Brody’s ...

In the second season of the hit Netflix series, a different Roklov brother and his sassy partner take center stage, and break hearts along the way. In the fifth episode of the second season of the ...

As Netanyahu calls social media the “eighth front,” new documents reveal how Israel is paying to shape U.S. opinion. Newly filed records with the Department of Justice show that Israel’s government ...

The Trump administration has launched investigations into colleges and universities. The White House accuses the schools of not doing enough to combat antisemitism on campus. Last week, Columbia ...

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025, has returned to the public eye with another initiative: Project Esther. Described as a "national strategy to combat ...

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a ...

Project Esther's overreach may ultimately strengthen rather than weaken the Palestinian solidarity movement by exposing the authoritarian tactics being deployed against it As a professor of Jewish ...