The Golem’s Gift by Benny Zelkowicz
“On the day after Yom Kippur, as he did every year, the old Rabbi shaped a Golem from a mound of clay.” So begins this powerful fable about a man of clay who tries...
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Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age Since the 1970’s by Matthew Baigell
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious themes in their...
The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music by Debbie Levy
Illustrator: Sonja Wimmer When Flory’s ancestors are forced to leave Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, they take with them their two most precious possessions―the key to their old house and the...
Eliezer Eilburg: The Ten Questions and Memoir of a Renaissance Jewish Skeptic by Joseph Davis
With: Magdalena Janosikova Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic skeptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable...
A Yamim Noraim Primer by Rabb Avi Baumol
An Introduction to the Concepts and Prayers of the Holiest Days in the Jewish Year The Yamim Noraim (high holy days) are the most intense Synagogue holidays of the year . Many new prayers...
The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua
Translator: Stuart Schoffman Until recently, Zvi Luria was a healthy man in his seventies, an engineer living in Tel Aviv with his wife, Dina, visiting with their two children whenever possible. Now he is...
Books about Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aka RBG an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, passed away on September 18, 2020. She was an inspirational figure as attested by the many books and movies about...
Justice in the West Bank?: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Goes to Court by Yonah Jeremy Bob
Justice in the West Bank? The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Goes to Court is the first-ever insider look at the Israeli military’s West Bank justice system for Palestinians. It is also a current, balanced, human story,...
Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East by Yaacov Yadgar
An important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated...
