New Jewish Books
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah...
“What does a Jew look like?” Well, it’s complicated… Too often, the answer seems to be: “Jews wear black hats, black coats and have beards.” Of course, some do, but the answer to the...
When Ash gets kicked off her school’s news show, she becomes a renegade reporter–and makes a big discovery about technology and her fellow students’ privacy. Ash and her friends are reporters. They were ready...
Illustrator: Devon Holzwarth A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella’s Tía Fortuna...
The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950) Foreword: Susan Rubin SuleimanTranslator: Maya J. Lo Bello Gaudiopolis (The City of Joy) was a pedagogical experiment that operated in...
The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs In October 1973, the poet...
Three friends. One memory.Vienna. 1936. Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped...
These are a selection of my well-tested everyday recipes—nothing too fancy, but certainly family and friends’ favorites—some handed down for generations, and others more recently contributed to add to the flavor. I hope that...
One old copy of the novel Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht’s tote bag, about to accompany her on a journey from New York to Berlin in search of a clue to the hand-drawn map...
Jews in Eastern Europe The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence...
