New Jewish Books
The Land of the Bible, cradle of Judaism and Christianity, is a world of wonders. Here Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice his first born son Isaac, returning from decades of exile in...
In her first book, Life on the Fringes, Haviva Ner-David described her quest to become an Orthodox rabbi, to serve God the same way men traditionally did. Now, Rabbi Ner-David tunes in to an...
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of...
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools – or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending...
Thoughtfully chosen and cheerfully retold, this gathering of eight Jewish stories is sure to delight listeners and readers. Rabbi Boyd Gelfand offers a fresh take on some old favorites to share the beauty and...
Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland’s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating...
The legendary rabbi talks about free love, doing LSD with Timothy Leary, and mortality in a new book, ‘The December Project’ In a sense, Schachter-Shalomi is the Zelig of the Jewish world: He has...
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama – part play, part prose, pure poetry – to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins...
Bombay possesses an intense history in which it grew and developed as a city containing a variety of populations, religions, cultures and architectural styles. In the present volume, Dr. Sapir draws upon extensive research,...
An old man walks into the town of Chelm asking for food. The townspeople claim they have nothing to share, but the man explains that he can make enough food for everyone with just a...
