New Jewish Books
How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God?...
Psychoanalysis and Wisdom applies psychoanalytic insights into one of the great examples of wisdom literature, the Ethics of the Fathers, an ethical tractate of the Talmud. Paul Marcus quotes key passages from the Ethics...
From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his...
An index of fascinating facts and stories When exploring many areas of Torah, it can often be difficult to understand the context of the maamarei Chazal. Why are these Sages arguing? What is the...
For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, twelve years after a devastating tragedy upended...
Traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested...
The Sikarikin: A fight for freedom or the road to destruction? It is 66 CE. Jerusalem seethes under Roman occupation. The bloody fratricide and subsequent war against the occupier are seen through the eyes...
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout Illustrator: Sammy Savos A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl’s fight for survival in Nazi...
A guide to joyful Teshuvah Serving Hashem with joy is the primary way to reach elevated levels in our avodas Hashem. Failure and mistakes are inevitable, and feeling down about those mistakes only impedes...
Set against a backdrop of a suburban Maryland synagogue, Wild Irish Yenta dishes on interfaith marriage, misbehaving clergy, and the beauty of religious traditions. When the body of custodian Roberto Gomez is found in...
