How to Get to Savta’s for Shabbat by Varda Livney
Through the jungle, down the slide, up to the moon, and onto a cloud . . . the journey to Shabbat dinner at Savta’s (Hebrew for “grandmother’s”) house is full of adventure!
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Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture by Rebekka Voß
Jewish Culture and Contexts Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are...
Soloveitchik’s Children by Daniel Ross Goodman
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Orthodox Judaism is one of the fastest-growing religious communities in contemporary American life. Anyone...
The Land of Hope and Fear by Isabel Kershner
Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, at a critical juncture in their country’s history, by a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent...
Why God Why? How to Believe In Heaven When It Hurts Like Hell by Gershon Schusterman
Rabbi Gershon Schusterman knew all the textbook answers when comforting bereaved community members who asked him, “Where is God? If God is loving, how could this happen?” But when the rabbi’s young wife died...
Centuries Will Not Suffice by Prit Buttar
A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust 95% of Lithuania’s more than 200,000 Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust. Why did this small Baltic state prove to be the most efficient killing field of all?...
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of...
The Winter Orphans by Kristin Beck
A poignant and ultimately triumphant novel based on the incredible true story of children who braved the formidable danger of guarded, wintry mountain passes in France to escape the Nazis, from the acclaimed author...
Open Judaism by Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics Open Judaism offers a big-tent welcome to all Jews and Judaism. It is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a...
Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media by Mark Kurlansky
Illustrator: Eric Zelz In his new book for young readers Mark Kurlansky’s lens is the art of the “big lie,” a term coined by Adolf Hitler. Kurlansky has written Big Lies: From Socrates to...
