Dance the Hora, Isadora by Gloria Koster
Illustrator: Barbara Bongini A young girl learns the Hora at her cousin’s wedding, then brings her new moves to dance class. Chloe is our step-dance star. Tap-tap go her toes. Up go her knees,...
Category: New Books
Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein
From the author of the “funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining” (Marie Claire) Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the...
The Shofar: Halachos, Minhagim, And Mesorah by Bentzion Ettlinger
“The art of blowing the shofar is a knowledge-based skill.” (Siddur Rav Hertz Sheliach Tzibbur) With the publication of this sefer, the halachos, hanhagos, eitzos, and mesorah related to tekias shofar are now available...
The Boy Behind The Door by David Tabatsky
How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis. Inspired by a True Story Holocaust Books for Young Adults The Boy Behind the Door is historical fiction inspired by the true story of Salomon Kool, a Dutch...
Textual Rivalries: Jesus, Midrash, and Kabbalah by Gilad Elbom
One of the central claims that Textual Rivalries makes is that the Kabbalah is often mislabeled as mysticism. Demystifying kabbalistic thought, Gilad Elbom treats it as a logical and consistent framework that promotes a...
Brand-New Bubbe by Sarah Aronson
Illustrator: Ariel Landy Jillian isn’t so sure she needs a third grandma now that her stepdad is joining the family, but can her brand-new Bubbe win her over? When Jillian joins Bubbe for some...
What Makes an Apple? by Amos Oz with Shira Hadad
Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures Translator: Jessica Cohen Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz In the last years of his life, the writer...
Come to This Court and Cry by Linda Kinstler
How the Holocaust Ends In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the...
The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to...
Raising Raffi: The First Five Years by Keith Gessen
An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life “I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.” Keith Gessen was nearing...
