Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
Lara’s had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He’s tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he’s talking to her now....
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On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture by Mika Ahuvia
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one’s shadow,...
Boy from Buchenwald by Robbie Waisman, Susan McClelland
It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family...
To All Who Call in Truth by Michael Oren
In Michael Oren’s beautifully rendered novel, an unsuspecting coach and guidance counselor gets drawn into an illicit relationship and a macabre murder mystery in 1970s suburbia. Sandy Cooper lives an uneventful life as a...
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection by Sam Apple
The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat―and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg―a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs―was widely regarded...
Gate of Verses: Shemos: An English Translation of the Arizal’s Commentary on the Torah by Pinchas Winston
Sha’ar HaPesukim, or the “Gate of Verses,” is the fourth of eight “gates” of the writings of the Arizal. Not surprising, it is on Tanach itself, Torah, Prophets, and Writings, all of which can...
Summer of Stolen Secrets by Julie Sternberg
A city girl spends the summer in the South and learns the secrets of her estranged extended family. Catarina has never met her strict Jewish grandmother. But now, with an opportunity to spend three...
Natan Sharansky: Freedom Fighter for Soviet Jews by Blake Hoena
Ilustrator: Daniele Dickmann This graphic novel biography is the story of Soviet Jewry “refusenik” and human rights activist Anatoly “Natan” Sharansky. Born in 1948 to a Jewish family in Ukraine, at that time part...
Nurture Their Nature: The Torah’s Essential Guidance for Parents and Teachers by Rabbi Yosef Lynn, Rabbi Jack Cohen
When our children and students ask, What makes me unique? How do I find my path in life? Can I make a difference in the world? they are poised to flourish. Our job, as...
Pursuit of Peril: Their only path to survival by Marlys Adler, Isaac Adler
In the late 1930s, Benjamin (Benny) Goldberg, along with other volunteers, agrees to become part of a clandestine mission, designed by a determined Jewish leadership in Palestine. Their mission is to return to Europe...
