The Passion of Life: Escaping the Holocaust by Helene J. RW. Wald
I was born in France in 1930, to parents who had emigrated from Poland in 1929.My father pushed my mother to leave Poland because he thought there was no future for them there, due...
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An Unkosher Death by Judith Groudine Finkel
Rabbi Deborah Stein fights to keep her congregation together as she tries to solve the mystery of the death of the synagogue’s president. Was it an accident, a suicide or a murder, for which...
The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor
NOW: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in...
Jewish Mysticism: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Kabbalah, Merkabah Mysticism, and Ashkenazi Hasidism by Mari Silva
If you want to explore Jewish Mysticism, then keep reading… Jewish Mysticism is a powerful expression within the Jewish tradition. Rooted in antiquity and veiled in mystery until quite recently, Jewish Mysticism has burst...
Kodesh by Gabi Aharonov
Kodesh is a compilation of vignettes which create a story about an extremist Jewish Orthodox settlement. It follows a variety of characters who choose to live in complete segregation from the outside world, and...
Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life by Amy Schwartz (editor)
Afterword: Rabbi Shira StutmanForeword: Rabbi Irving Yitzchak Greenberg A smart, hip and provocative book for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary questions. Should we edit our children’s genes? Are...
Reimagining Israel by Josh Hoffman
This book is the story of a boy who grew up exponentially self-isolated from Judaism, Jewishness, and Israel — until a life-changing experience at the age of 23 catapulted him to a life mission...
Memoirs of Reb Mayer Gurkov: Sefer Hazichronos Divrei Hayamim
Translator: Mendel Super Spanning more than 200 pages with photographs and never been seen before documents, this volume, written by the famed Chassid Reb Mayer Gurkov, chronicles his heroic struggle against the Soviet regime...
One Girl in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Girl’s Holocaust Survival True Story by Sara Leibovits and Eti Elboim
How will one girl survive the horrors of Auschwitz on her own? Poland, 1944. The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like they waited in the carriage for...
Israel’s Transformative Black Artists by Charles Moore
Israel’s Transformative Black Artists is a book about 7 Ethiopian Jewish artists and their work. These artists practice and participate in Judaism, live in Israel (or at some point did), and create beautiful paintings,...
