The Talmud Treasury by Rabbi Zvi Zimmerman
An index of fascinating facts and stories When exploring many areas of Torah, it can often be difficult to understand the context of the maamarei Chazal. Why are these Sages arguing? What is the...
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The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green
For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, twelve years after a devastating tragedy upended...
Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine by Oren Yiftachel
Traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested...
The Sikarikin: Fight for Freedom or Road to Destruction? by Harry Steven Lazerus
The Sikarikin: A fight for freedom or the road to destruction? It is 66 CE. Jerusalem seethes under Roman occupation. The bloody fratricide and subsequent war against the occupier are seen through the eyes...
The Girl Who Sang by Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout Illustrator: Sammy Savos A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl’s fight for survival in Nazi...
Uplifted: Embracing imperfection by Rabbi Elihu Abbe, LMSW
A guide to joyful Teshuvah Serving Hashem with joy is the primary way to reach elevated levels in our avodas Hashem. Failure and mistakes are inevitable, and feeling down about those mistakes only impedes...
Wild Irish Yenta by Joyce Sanderly
Set against a backdrop of a suburban Maryland synagogue, Wild Irish Yenta dishes on interfaith marriage, misbehaving clergy, and the beauty of religious traditions. When the body of custodian Roberto Gomez is found in...
The Shtetl Book: Jewish Horror Stories by Daniel Kluger
The heroes of the book “The Shtetl Book” are residents of the small Jewish town of Yavoritsy, who were faced with formidable otherworldly forces. Daniel Kluger defined the genre of his book as a...
Soul House by Mireille Gansel
Translator: Joan Seliger Sidney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French-Jewish poet, translator, and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in...
Daughter of History by Susan Suleiman
Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and...
