Mouth of the Donkey by Laura Duhan-Kaplan
The Hebrew Bible is filled with animals. Snakes and ravens share meals with people; donkeys and sheep work alongside us; eagles and lions inspire us; locusts warn us. How should we read their stories?...
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We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Today Tonight Tomorrow....
Honey & Co: Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant by Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich
Join Sarit and Itamar on a journey filled with flavor and fire as they visit their favorite cities collecting recipes, stories, and the best of culinary culture along the way. Organized into five ingredient-led...
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the...
Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother by Stacey Aaronson
When Stacey Aaronson was born in 1969, her mother, Bree, was sixteen and barely out of braces. Hastily wed to Stacey’s dad and divorced soon after, Bree raised Stacey with his and her parents’...
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle
MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, Sherry Turkle’s intimate memoir of love and work For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our...
A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the...
Soles of a Survivor by Nhi Aronheim
The Unbelievable True Story of a Vietnamese Refugee Who Not Only Made the United States Her Home, But Learned the True Value of Hope, Love, and Religion Along the Way The soles of Nhi...
Fun read with depth; thoughts on Blintzes and Blunts and Blowies, Oh My! by Gabriela Kalter
It’s been a while since I had as much joy reading a book as I had when I devoured “Blintzes and Blunts and Blowies, Oh My!.” My pleasure was first derived from individual sentences....
To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah by Dvora Hacohen
Foreword: Ruth Bader Ginsburg The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a remarkable leader who fought for women’s rights and the poor. Born in Baltimore in 1860,...
