Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13 by Lisa Rosenberg
Inspired by the success of their first birthday bucket list, Ari and her BFF Kaylan set twelve new goals for the next school year. And number one is “keep our friendship strong.” But after...
Category: New Books
Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggada Masterpieces by Adam S. Cohen
No book in Jewish history has been illustrated more often than the Passover haggada. Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggada Masterpieces is the first work to survey the magnificent history of the illustrated haggada, from...
The Promise Pnina by Bat Zvi & Margie Wolfe
Illustrator: Isabelle Cardinal The night that Rachel and Toby’s parents are taken away by the Nazis, they give their daughters three gold coins. “Use these wisely to help save your lives,” they tell them....
Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought by David Bashevkin
It is no more possible to think about religion without sin than it is to think about a garden without dirt. By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism...
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she...
Dovy’s Special Seder Night by Malky Weinstock
Illustrator: Steve Pileggi Dovy prepares for the Seder by practicing the Mah Nishtanah, and at the Seder his Abba teaches him why Pesach is such a special Yom Tov! Just as Hashem took us...
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
Following his relatives’ remarkable stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. With a rich array of letters, photographs, interviews, and archives, he creates a moving portrait...
Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics by Shmuly Yanklowitz
Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as...
Fruit Geode by Alicia Jo Rabins
Poetry. Women’s Studies. In Alicia Jo Rabins’ second collection, FRUIT GEODE, the terrifying power of maternal love coexists with sorrow for the loss of one’s younger self. In lyrical, unflinching poems, Rabins investigates the...
The Golden Bell by Tamar Sachs
Illustrator: Yossi Abolafia Translator: Nancy Wellins In biblical times, Itamar, the tailor’s son, has carefully carried the High Priest’s robe—with its little golden bells sewn onto the hem—home for his father to mend. But...
