The Girl with More Than One Heart by Laura Geringer Bass
There are times we all feel we need more than one heart to get through. When Briana’s father dies, she imagines she has a new heart growing inside her. It speaks to her in...
Category: New Books
The Discourse on Kabbalah in the Wissenschaft Des Judentums, 1820-1880 by George Y. Kohler
In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend...
The Edelweiss Pirates by Jennifer Elvgren
Illustrator: Daniela Stamatiadi In Germany in 1938, playing and dancing to jazz music is forbidden. The Hitler Youth patrol the night streets looking for anyone who breaks the rules. Albert is a member of...
Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul by Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography and The Murderous History of Bible Translations, explores the mysterious Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah. Kabbalah is popularly known as a fashionable system for personal and...
Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses
An insider’s account of Romania’s emergence from communism control In the 1970s American attorney Alfred H. Moses was approached on the streets of Bucharest by young Jews seeking help to emigrate to Israel. This...
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud by Andrew Ramer
Afterword: David Wolpe Eighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one sixth of the Earth’s population has died in a vast pandemic, a noted rabbi in Brooklyn hosts...
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three...
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank by Nancy Churnin
Illustrator: Yevgenia Nayberg Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in...
Queen Esther’s Big Secret: A Purim Story by Sarah Mazor
Sergii Zavadskyi (Illustrator) The Purim holiday celebrates the miraculous story of the Jews of Persia during the reign of Achashverosh (Xerxes I), over 2400 years ago. The Book of Esther, the Megillah (on which...
A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar M. Pinsker
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture. Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is...
