Master of Ceremonies by Joel Gray
Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in...
Category: New Books
Shabbat Hiccups by Tracy Newman
Jonah loves Shabbat. But this week, as he helps his family set the table for dinner, something unexpected happens: he gets the hiccups! His sister, grandma, mom, cousin, and dad all suggest remedies, but...
Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions by Jacob S. Dorman
Jacob S. Dorman offers new insights into the rise of Black Israelite religions in America, faiths ranging from Judaism to Islam to Rastafarianism all of which believe that the ancient Hebrew Israelites were Black...
Books posted in February 2016
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of February 2016: Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit Athar by Shlomo Kalo The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb Béla’s...
Piece of Mind by Michelle Adelman
At twenty-seven, Lucy knows everything about coffee, comic books, and Gus (the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo), and she possesses a rare gift for drawing. But since she suffered a traumatic brain...
Our Jewish Robot Future by Leonard Borman
Meet the Haralsons—retired, eccentric, always discontented. Margarita, the post-menopausal narrator, wants a baby, while her heroic husband Alex is obsessed with finding the missing 11th commandment. Perhaps conjured from their obsessions, arrives John Chapman,...
Elisha Davidson and the Ispaklaria by M.R. Attar
The strangest summer of Elisha Davidson’s life turns into a reality-shattering adventure when Elisha figures out how to access an Ispaklaria’s powerful ancient secrets without ever leaving his own bedroom. Now Elisha is the...
Jewish Stories of Wisdom by Patrick Fischmann
A beautifully illustrated collection of old-world Jewish tales of faith and morality. Jewish Stories of Wisdom is the perfect antidote to our busy, modern lives. It serves as a daily companion that one can...
From Sinai to Ethiopia by Sharon Shalom
The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving...
Yearning to Breathe Free: My Parents’ Fight to Reunite during the Holocaust
by Murray Jack Lauicht with Peter Weisz On February 1, 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually become the author of this...
