Linked by Gordon Korman
An unforgettable novel from the New York Times bestselling Gordon Korman. Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it’s woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it...
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The Protests of Job by Scott A. Davison, Shira Weiss, Sajjad Rizvi
An Interfaith Dialogue This book explores the protests of Job from the perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious and philosophical traditions. Shira Weiss examines how challenges to divine justice are understood from a...
Strength From Within by Amrom Gottesman
Faith in humanity is tested to its limits when a young man fights to survive the Holocaust In Strength from Within, Amrom Gottesman explores the horrific story of his father, Leibish, enduring the ravages...
The Laws of Cooking: Part 1 by Rabbi Yosef Ben Dovid
Jewish Halakha Although the Torah makes frequent mention of the obligation of Shabbat observance, its importance and the severity of its violation[1], the Mishna in Masekhet Chagiga (10a) declares, “The laws of Shabbat are...
Call Across the Sea by Kathy Kacer
History is made one brave act at a time. Henny has grown up with her father’s boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and...
Israel and the Diaspora by Robert A. Kenedy, Uzi Rebhun, Carl S. Ehrlich (Editors)
Jewish Connectivity in a Changing World Studies of Jews in Society This collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate...
How to Write About the Holocaust by Theodor Pelekanidis
The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis Routledge Approaches to History How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical...
The Baseball Talmud by Howard Megdal
The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical...
Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish) by Abraham Socher
How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America How did Humphrey Bogart end up telling Lauren Bacall a Talmudic story in the film Key Largo, and what does that have to do...
Zabar’s: A Family Story, with Recipes by Lori Zabar
Foreword: Julia Moskin When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a dairy store on 80th Street and Broadway in 1934 to sell smoked fish, they could not have imagined that their store...
