Braided: A Journey of A Thousand Challahs by Beth Ricanati
What if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the act of making the bread―mixing...
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree...
The Fifth Column by Andrew Gross
February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell’s Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman...
A New Approach to Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur: Based On The Teachings of HaRav Yitzchak Berkovits Shlita
Editors: Rabbi Moshe Kormornick, Rabbi Zvi Gefen How many of us eagerly look forward to Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur? How many of us get excited by the lead-up to these holy days and...
The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. 1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the “Paris of the East”. Beautiful...
Faith After the Holocaust by Eliezer Berkovits
Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits’s Faith after the Holocaust – recognized as a classic immediately upon publication – boldly and forthrightly addresses the most theologically fraught question of our times: God’s noninterference in the Holocaust....
The Girl in the Haystack by Bryon MacWilliams
Hours after Germany invades the Soviet Union in 1941, nationalists in a small Ukrainian town carry out a pogrom against local Jews, killing dozens and leaving others for dead. One survivor is a seven-year-old...
Books posted in May 2019
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on this site in May 2019. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page...
Rereading The Rabbis: A Woman’s Voice by Judith Hauptman
Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in...
Yom Kippur Children’s Machzor by Noam Zimmerman
Noam Zimmerman’s original clay sculptures enhance the prayer’s passages by acting as a visual aid to the text. The imagery in this Yom Kippur prayer book is particularly meaningful to children because they were...
