Ride High with the Wave by Sharon K. Solomon
Hiro Kojima and Ted Richman are backstroke rivals on the Dolphins, their swim team. Hiro is the new boy in town and Ted dislikes him. Reluctantly, Ted agrees to work with Hiro to solve...
Category: New Books
Bitter and Sweet by Sandra V. Feder
When Hannah’s family has to move, her grandmother tells her how she felt leaving the old country ― it was both bitter and sweet. As Hannah leaves her friends behind and tries to get...
The Future of Jewish Philosophy
Editors: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Table of contents Acknowledgments The Contributors Part One: Jewish Philosophy in Perspective 1 Jewish Philosophy as Cultural Practice Hava Tirosh-Samuelson 2 Jewish Philosophy in the Academy Aaron...
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice by Dana E. Katz
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce...
The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington
Three weeks after being detained on her way home from school, fourteen-year-old Ella finds herself in the Upper Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop inside a Nazi concentration camp. There, two dozen skeletal women toil...
A Karakas Speaks by C.M. Kosemen
Interview wit a Member of Turkey’s Crypto-Judaic “Dönme” Community Since the late 20th century, academic interest in the crypto-Judaic group known as the Dönmes has grown and intensified. Most studies resulting from this interest...
The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture by Samantha Baskind
On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto...
My Israel Trail by Aryeh Green
Finding Peace in the Promised Land Paperback Experience Israel through new eyes as you join Aryeh Green on a 680-mile journey through the promised land. Following a devastating divorce, Aryeh decided to hike the...
The Girl with the Red Balloon (The Balloonmakers) by Katherine Locke
When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she’s caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who...
French Toast Sundays by Gloria Spielman
Illustrator: Inbal Gigi Bousidan When Mina s beloved Grandma dies, nothing feels right anymore. People come to visit. Mina just hides up in the big old oak tree. But the stories she hears about...
