New Jewish Books
In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a “hallucinatory repetition” of Nazi...
Of Bitter Herbs and Sweet Confections is a fictionalized memoir, which tells the moving story of Tanya, a Jewish teenager forced to flee her Polish hometown in order to escape the Nazis. Tanya’s sweeping...
Foreword: Rabbi David Stern This volume is a compelling invitation to meditate on the deeper meaning of the fourteen verses of Psalm 27. During the month of Elul and the High Holy Day and...
One night stands don’t turn into happily ever after. Rachel is living at home and working a toxic job. Three months ago Seth, her boyfriend of three years, broke up with her when she...
Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632–77), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in many...
The notion of “personal responsibility” has long been associated with maturity, reason, accountability, thrift, decency, and concern for others and for society at large. Yet, the modern world has largely abandoned it – and...
Her heart died in the war – can she breathe new life to it? Dora Simon and Joe O’Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly...
” And Hashem spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert in the Tent of Meeting… saying, ‘Count the entire community of the children of Israel.”’ Why did Hashem repeatedly count the Jewish people? How...
Amazing stories from Rabbi Yisroel Gellis, journalist, radio personality, and tenth-generation Yerushalmi It is only a few hours since the Kosel, the Western Wall, was liberated …and Yisroel Gellis is there. Hundreds of Sifrei...
Weddings and celebrations, stories of Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah and Passover, this brief novel of stories has it all. Themes include the importance of exercise for seniors, maintaining your identity, the challenge of work and...
