Gematria Refigured by Rabbi Elie Feder, PhD
A New Look At How The Torah Conveys Ideas Through Numbers Gematria is a polarizing topic. While many love it, many others view it with skepticism. What is the purpose of gematria? Can we...
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What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir by David Sipress
From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity—richly interleaved with the author’s witty, beloved cartoons....
Love, Norm by Norman M. Shulman
Inspiration of a Jewish American Fighter Pilot Modern Jewish History Norm Shulman’s relationship with his stepson Greg Levenson had always been stable and warm, but it altered when Greg decided to enlist in the...
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum
The Chosen meets Adam Silvera in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and hatred. Hoodie Rosen’s life isn’t that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked...
Until the Blueberries Grow by Jennifer Wolf Kam
Illustrator: Sally Walker Until the blueberries grow . . . until the grapes are ripe . . . until the snow falls . . . until the flowers bloom . . . Ben tries...
A Man of Success in the Land of Success by Łukasz Tomasz Sroka
The Biography of Marcel Goldman, a Kracovian in Tel Aviv Translated by Katarzyna Rogalska-Chodecka This book tells the story of Holocaust survivor and prominent banker Marcel Goldman, born in Krakow in 1926. Goldman started...
The Heresy of Jacob Frank by Jay Michaelson
From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi,...
Strange Creatures by Phoebe North
From acclaimed author Phoebe North comes a riveting, unexpected, and beautiful contemporary novel about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories—real and imagined—that they tell...
Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine
Edited by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay Biographies and Geographies When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed...
A Daughter’s Kaddish by Sarah Birnbach
My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing A woman breaks with Jewish tradition to honor her late father in this moving memoir of faith, grief, and transformation. A Daughter’s Kaddish recounts Sarah Birnbach’s year-long...
