Pamela Cytrynbaum
By Pamela Cytrynbaum
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Culture A Jewish Call To Right Wrongful Convictions
The first time Judaism and wrongful convictions collided for New York Post crime reporter Reuven Fenton was in 2013, when he covered a hearing in which a Brooklyn judge freed David Ranta, wrongfully convicted for murdering esteemed Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger 22 years earlier. The made-for-tabloid story sparked an investigation into egregious official misconduct by the…
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Books How the Birth Control Pill Changed Everything
Jonathan Eig is The New York Times best-selling author of “Luckiest Man,” “Opening Day,” “Get Capone,” and now, “The Birth of the Pill,” about the race to produce the birth control pill. Before writing books, Eig worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Chicago magazine, The Dallas Morning News and the Times-Picayune. He…
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Culture Memoirs of Harry Rosenfeld, Newspaperman Who Survived Kristallnacht and Covered Watergate
If you’re lucky and smart, life as a newshound means that your day job consists of being a semi-ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. You invariably sidle up to history — and its makers — just by showing up for work. As a boy growing up in Hitler’s Berlin, Harry Rosenfeld, author of the new…
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Culture Author Jennifer Gilmore’s New Novel Confronts the Mother of All Struggles
● The Mothers By Jennifer Gilmore Scribner, 288 pages, $26 In her novel “The Mothers,” Jennifer Gilmore has written the book all women of a certain age going through the infertility cycles of hell long to hand to any member of the fertile world who asks that innocent but searing question: So, are you pregnant…
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Culture Errol Morris Probes Notorious Murder
● A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald By Errol Morris The Penguin Press, 544 pages, $29.95 Between the alternative narratives (and universes) presented by the recent political conventions and the cycle of soul searching/forgiveness/redemption of the High Holy Days, it is the perfect moment to reflect on the human and systemic failures…
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