New Jewish Books
Editor: Chava Witkes Regardless of where you’ll be davening this High Holiday season, stay connected with this new prayer companion. Powerful bits of wisdom are thoughtfully paired with full-color Jewish art. Its Chassidic insights...
Illustrator: Ivana Kuman Ibexes on crater ledgesCall out, “Maa!” and walk the edges. A rhyming introduction to some of Israel’s unique animals like the hoopoe (the national bird of Israel), hyrax, and sand cats.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets You’ve Got Mail in this charming and hilarious rom-com following two teen booksellers whose rivalry is taken to the next level as they compete for the top bookseller bonus....
How and why have anti-Zionism and antisemitism become so radical and widespread? This timely and important volume argues convincingly that today’s inflamed rhetoric exceeds the boundaries of legitimate criticism of the policies and actions...
SENIOR YEAR. When an assignment given by a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution, a euphemism used to describe the Nazi plan for the genocide of the...
Dr. Zvi Feine served the Jewish communities of Romania and Poland as country director for the Joint Distribution Community during those two countries respective transitions from Communist rule. This memoir of his work under...
Minhag (custom) played a far greater and far more important role in medieval Ashkenazic society than in any other Jewish community. In upholding the authority of a custom, halakhic authorities frequently asserted that “custom...
The modern Jewish calendar is a calculated calendar because its foundation is mathematical rather than observational, as was the case until the mid-fourth century CE. The calendar’s mathematics is really not difficult, the operations...
Illustrator: Tom Leigh A Seder for Grover introduces very young readers to Passover traditions with friends from Sesame Street. Big Bird, Moishe Oofnik, and Avigail join their friend Grover to celebrate the spring holiday of Passover....
In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe...
