Once Upon a Parashah by Dassy Aarons
Short Stories with a Hidden Lesson for Today Learned from the Weekly Parashah Take a story with a dilemma, add something new from the parashah, and what do you get? A practical lesson for...
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Eddie Whatever by Lois Ruby
Thirteen-year-old Eddie needs to do a community service project in preparation for his bar mitzvah. Against his better judgment, he ends up with a volunteering gig at Silver Brook Pavilion retirement home, where the...
Matzo Ball-Wonton Thanksgiving by Amelie Suskind Liu, Leslie Lewinter-Suskind
It’s Thanksgiving time and Amelie’s Bubbe and Nai Nai are visiting to celebrate the holiday. Amelie cannot wait for the delicious dinner of turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie! But, when Bubbe...
A Snake, a Flood, a Hidden Baby: Bible Stories for Children by Meir Shalev
Illustrator: Emanuele Luzzati Translator: Ilana Kurshan A Snake, a Flood, a Hidden Baby: Bible Stories for Children features six popular stories from the Hebrew Bible retold with whimsy by one of Israel’s most celebrated...
Gendering Modern Jewish Thought by Andrea Dara Cooper
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered reading that...
Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present; edited by Rebecca Lynn Winer, Federica Francesconi
Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women’s lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors...
The Road Remembered by Kaye D Schmitz
You know the stories of World War II. Now meet the people who lived them. In the final months of World War II, Sam Ryan takes his place as a new soldier in the...
Klezmer! by Kyra Teis
When Eastern European Jewish immigrants bring their klezmer music with them to America, it takes on a rockin’ new vibe, adding elements of Jazz borrowed from its new country. In the beautifully illustrated Klezmer!,...
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a...
In the Trenches: Stories from the Frontlines of Jewish Life in Russia by Rabbi Michoel and Rebbetzin Naama Oishie
Join Rabbi Michoel and Rebbetzin Naama Oishie on a journey through Romania, Israel, and finally Kaluga, a small city in western Russia, where the couple has devoted their lives to rebuilding a once-thriving Jewish...
