A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyány
Translator Anthea Bell One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders mingled. The war was almost over...
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The Heart of Torah, Volume 1 by Rabbi Shai Held
Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodus Foreword by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature,...
The Tincture of Time by Elizabeth L. Silver
Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter, Abby, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with sudden seizures,...
Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jewish Kitchen by Sue Spertus Larkey
With beautiful photographs, both modern and archival, this cookbook presents the history, little-known culinary heritage and food traditions of the over two-thousand-year-old Yemenite Jewish community, as well as the changes that followed immigration to...
The Afterlife of Stars by Joseph Kertes
As Russian tanks roll through the cobblestone streets of Budapest and shots ring out, young Robert and Attila Beck, inseparable brothers, peer from the boot of a toppled statue of Stalin at the first...
Silent Letter by Yitzchak Mayer
Written as an introspective, lyrical letter to her missing husband, the novel begins one night in January 1943, when Roszy’s husband Moritz, a member of the French Resistance, is hauled away by the Gestapo...
King Solomon’s Table by Joan Nathan
Driven by a passion for discovery, the biblical King Solomon is said to have sent emissaries on land and sea to all corners of the ancient world, initiating a mass cross-pollination of culinary cultures...
The Magic Honey Jar: A Jewish Tale For Rosh Hashanah by Rachel Mintz
The Famous Tale In a Jewish Version For Rosh Hashanah In this book a Jewish version which has Rosh Hashanah as it’s center theme. Based on the famous folklore tale, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by...
City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement by Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Since 1967, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the territories captured by the State of Israel during the Six Day War. Comprising 15 percent of the settler population today, these immigrants have established...
Pesach Cleaning for Rosh Hashanna: Thoughts and Tales from a Jewish Psychologist by Dr. Ruth Benjamin PhD
What kind of copper-gold thread links Pesach and Rosh Hashanah? What links are there between Pesach Cleaning which is very systematic and practical and doing Tesuvah which is very spiritual and focused on self...
