I Wanted to Be Wonderful by Lihi Lapid
This book begins where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. I WANTED TO BE WONDERFUL follows the lives of two women in their first years of marriage and motherhood....
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A Field Guide to Broken Promises by Leah Stecher
In this heartfelt follow-up to her critically acclaimed novel The Things We Miss, Leah Stecher explores the pressure of living up to perfection. When Evie Steinberg’s family moves right before seventh grade, she promises...
The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Dov Schwartz
A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late ThoughtTranslator: Batya Stein Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Dov Schwartz’s The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late Thought explores the later thought...
Antisemitism, an American Tradition by Pamela S. Nadell
The powerful story of antisemitism in America and how it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries. Jews experienced antisemitism the moment they landed on what would become the United States....
Amoraim Series 15: Rabbi Chiya bar Abba by Meir Lamberski
Illustrator: Racheli David Rabbi Chiya Bar Abba left Bavel while young to study under Rabbi Yochanan in Tiberias. Due to extreme poverty, he moved a great deal and gave lectures from town to town, and due to his piety,...
Heart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdahl
An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming...
Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls by Rebecca L. Harris
Living in the Liminal Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls is the first book-length study to examine Qumran religious experience through the lens of liminality in order to better understand what...
Plunder and Survival by Suzanne Loebl, Abigail Wilentz
Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery, and Migration of Nazi Uprooted Art Written by a Holocaust survivor whose family collected art, Plunder and Survival tells the stories of principal figures, events, and artworks that contribute...
Isn’t It Obvious? by Rachel Runya Katz
After a meet-disaster, a podcaster and her producer fall in love over email without realizing they know (and hate) each other in real life. When high school librarian Yael’s secret podcast starts to take...
Kaplan’s Plot by Jason Diamond
Elijah Mendes was hoping for a more triumphant return to Chicago. His mother, Eve, is dying of cancer, his business flamed out, and he has nowhere else to go. So he returns to Chicago...
