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...
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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...
Don’t Ask My Name: A Hidden Child’s Tale of Survival by Erika Hecht
Born Jewish in Hungary in the 1930s, little Erika became a “Hidden Child,” one of many Jewish children who were provided with false identities and survived the Second World War as Christians. The lies...
One Small Hop by Madelyn Rosenberg
Perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen’s classic Hoot, this humorous adventure story set in a not-so-distant future celebrates the important differences we can make with small, brave acts. When Ahab and his friends find...
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland
A family reunion for the ages when two clans convene for the summer at their beloved getaway in the Catskills—perfect for fans of Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—from the acclaimed author of...
Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World by Yael Ziegler
How do people progress from despair to hope? How does one maintain faith in God’s justice in a world that seems cruel and unfair? What is the nature of Israel’s culpability and to what...
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind,...
Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story by Peter Zheutlin
Ride away on a ’round-the-world adventure of a lifetime—with only a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver—in this trascendent novel inspired by the life of Annie Londonderry. “Bicycling has done more to emancipate...
