The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on...
Category: New Books
The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left by Michael R. Fischbach
The Arab-Israeli conflict constituted a serious problem for the American Left in the 1960s: pro-Palestinian activists hailed the Palestinian struggle against Israel as part of a fundamental restructuring of the global imperialist order, while...
The Laws & Customs of Sukkos-Summary Edition by Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein
This summary edition is a complete and all encompassing summary of all the laws relating to Sukkos, including The building and Kashrus of the Sukkah, the Mitzvah to dwell in the Sukkah, the Mitzvah...
Matters of Life and Death by Dr. Albert Matalon
What do traditional contemporary Jewish sources have to say about… Signing a DNR? Pain and suffering? Artificial nutrition and hydration? Palliative care? Withholding treatment? A Comatose patient? Hazardous procedures to save a life? Morphine...
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society by Francesca Trivellato
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long...
The Best Sukkot Pumpkin Ever by Laya Steinberg
Illustrator: Colleen Madden It’s almost Sukkot, and Micah and his family are heading to Farmer Jared’s pumpkin patch. Micah wants to find the very best pumpkin to decorate his family’s sukkah, but Farmer Jared...
The Wonders of Creation: Marvels of Our World by Rabbi Yaakov Lubin
The world is both beautiful and amazing. We sit in awe of its wonders. There is even more, though. Hashem made our world as he did so that we could easily recognize His ultimate...
Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander
Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she...
Sukkot Is Coming! by Tracy Newman
Illustrator: Viviana Garofoli Kids will learn about the Jewish fall harvest holiday of Sukkot from building the sukkah, to the tradition of shaking the lulav and etrog. Don’t know what those things are? Read the book!
Kugel for Hanukkah? by Gretchen M. Everin
Illustrator: Rebecca Ashdown As each of Hanukkah’s first seven nights brings an unusual new present to a little girl, the mystery deepens. While the gifts grandma receives add up to a delicious Hanukkah treat,...
