New Jewish Books
Dr. Israel Drazin reveals fascinating information about Elijah. Among much else, he reveals that the Bible depicts him as being overzealous, hardly ever showing an interest in helping people, and totally different than the...
Backyard Kitchen: The Main Course (Sephardic Heritage Project, 2020) is a collection of entree recipes handed down from mother to daughter over several generations. It is the second in a series of kosher cookbooks,...
Why are C. Saphir’s LifeLines stories so amazingly popular, both in their magazine format and in the bestselling books of the series? Many of the stories have wonderful, inspiring happy endings. Others don’t. Some...
‘We are always dreaming of soft, airy, pale chiffon cake, thinking about chocolate-swirled, glossy yeasted babke, imagining flaky, chewy, jammy strudel, baking almond-studded, citrus-glazed Dutch buns, frying golden, syrup-drenched coiled fishuelas, biting into hot, sugared jam-filled doughnuts, eating crisp-shelled, marshmallowy vanilla-flecked...
It stinks that Danny’s older brother moved out and went to college. But you know what’s worse? He left behind an angry ghost in his room! With the help of his friends Nat and...
Translator: Eylon Levy Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no...
The tragic battle of the Polish Jews for emigration in the period before the Holocaust. At the Last Moment is a riveting book based on the doctoral work of Irith Cherniavsky, which deals with Polish...
The Jews have long lived in Britain. They arrived with William the Conqueror and were accountants to his son, William Rufus. Here are tales from the time of Joseph of Arimathea arriving in Cornwall...
Translator: Rotem Teplow It’s Mimouna ― the Moroccan Jewish holiday that marks the end of Passover, and when blessings are given for a year of prosperity and good luck. Miriam wants to help her...
In the year 921/2, the Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia disagreed on how to calculate the calendar. This led the Jews of the entire Near East to celebrate Passover and the other festivals,...
