New Jewish Books
What do traditional contemporary Jewish sources have to say about… Signing a DNR? Pain and suffering? Artificial nutrition and hydration? Palliative care? Withholding treatment? A Comatose patient? Hazardous procedures to save a life? Morphine...
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long...
Illustrator: Colleen Madden It’s almost Sukkot, and Micah and his family are heading to Farmer Jared’s pumpkin patch. Micah wants to find the very best pumpkin to decorate his family’s sukkah, but Farmer Jared...
The world is both beautiful and amazing. We sit in awe of its wonders. There is even more, though. Hashem made our world as he did so that we could easily recognize His ultimate...
Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she...
Illustrator: Viviana Garofoli Kids will learn about the Jewish fall harvest holiday of Sukkot from building the sukkah, to the tradition of shaking the lulav and etrog. Don’t know what those things are? Read the book!
Illustrator: Rebecca Ashdown As each of Hanukkah’s first seven nights brings an unusual new present to a little girl, the mystery deepens. While the gifts grandma receives add up to a delicious Hanukkah treat,...
This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects...
Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in...
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