Saving Sophie by Ronald H. Balson
Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago. That is, until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became the main suspect in an $88 million dollar embezzlement case....
Category: New Books
The Mental Yentl: Stories from a Lifelong Student of Crazy by Sally Fingerett
These hilarious and heartwarming tales come from a free-spirited musician who spent twenty-five years touring with the highly acclaimed musical comedy troupe, The Four B**chin’ Babes. This “student of crazy” celebrates her own personal...
Let There Be Water by Seth M. Siegel
Life-Saving Lessons from Israel for a Water-Deprived World As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The U.S. government...
Un bon fils (A Good Son) by Pascal Bruckner
My Father, the Anti-Semite Pascal Bruckner, the French writer and New Philosopher, on his new book, his family’s Nazi sympathies, the rise of hatred in Europe, and the crisis of radical Islam “Your father...
Out of Jordan: A Sabra in the Peace Corps Tells Her Story by Dalya Cohen-Mor
A good memoir is a survivor’s tale—the story of a person who has faced obstacles and made it through well enough to tell it. Dalya Cohen-Mor, a Sabra-born American woman, volunteered to serve in...
Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman
How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s...
Maimonides the Rationalist by Herbert A. Davidson
In his own estimation, Maimonides was neither exclusively a dedicated philosopher nor exclusively a devoted rabbinist: he saw philosophy and the Written and Oral Torahs as a single, harmonious domain, and he believed that...
Oedipus in Jerusalem by Kalman J. Kaplan
A Play in Two Acts Oedipus in Jerusalem begins with the unexpected meeting of the blinded Oedipus and the biblical prophet Nathan outside of Thebes. As the play unfolds, Nathan brings Oedipus to the...
The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible Aviya Kushner’s personal experience of rediscovering in translation the Bible she knew by heart in Hebrew. Kushner grew up in a religious Jewish household...
The Colors of Israel by Rachel Raz
Blue and white are not the only colors of Israel! This book by author/photographer Rachel Raz (ABC Israel) showcases the many vibrant and beautiful colors of the land of Israel, from the red double-decker...
