Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer
Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as...
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Legal Gladiator: The Life of Alan Dershowitz by Solomon Schmidt
The only biography of America’s most controversial lawyer. Legal Gladiator is the story of perhaps the greatest lawyer in American history. It is the story of a poor, failing high schooler from Brooklyn who became...
Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger
An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the...
One More Story, Tata! by Julie Salamon
Illustrator: Jill Weber This heartwarming story of a little girl’s bond with her great-grandma, who tells the silliest, most magical stories, celebrates four generations of a Jewish family who come together for Shabbat. It’s...
A Speaker Is a Wilderness by Anna Goodman Herrick
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole Weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness. ...
The Last of the Light by Alexander Shalom Joseph
One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that the world will end in one month. In the thirty days leading up to the last day of...
Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir by Seth Lorinczi
When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get. Like many children of immigrants, Seth Lorinczi knew...
Schlepping Across The Nile: Collected Stories by Aaron Zevy
In the footsteps of Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt, and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy’s Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories, culled...
Between the Bridge and the Barricade by Iris Idelson-Shein
Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times....
(In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting by Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
(IN)SIGHTS is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the challenges of its peaceful resolution, winning praise from across the political spectrum. Itshares co-author Gidi Grinstein’s personal experiences in...
