Dovy’s Special Seder Night by Malky Weinstock
Illustrator: Steve Pileggi Dovy prepares for the Seder by practicing the Mah Nishtanah, and at the Seder his Abba teaches him why Pesach is such a special Yom Tov! Just as Hashem took us...
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Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism
Editors: Alfred L Ivry, Elliot R Wolfson, Allan Arkush This superb collection of writings comes as a tribute to one of the leading scholars of Judaic Studies in our century, Alexander Altmann, and to...
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
Following his relatives’ remarkable stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. With a rich array of letters, photographs, interviews, and archives, he creates a moving portrait...
Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics by Shmuly Yanklowitz
Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as...
Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy by Roni Weinstein
This book provides the first publication of the tract Tiferet Bahurim (The Glory of Youth) which was written in the mid-seventeenth century by R. Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselic in Ferrara, Italy. The tract...
Fruit Geode by Alicia Jo Rabins
Poetry. Women’s Studies. In Alicia Jo Rabins’ second collection, FRUIT GEODE, the terrifying power of maternal love coexists with sorrow for the loss of one’s younger self. In lyrical, unflinching poems, Rabins investigates the...
The Golden Bell by Tamar Sachs
Illustrator: Yossi Abolafia Translator: Nancy Wellins In biblical times, Itamar, the tailor’s son, has carefully carried the High Priest’s robe—with its little golden bells sewn onto the hem—home for his father to mend. But...
The Creation Book by Chani Gansburg
The sky up high, the land and sea, a brand new world for you and me. Crisp writing and extraordinary illustration combine in this unique picture book about the Creation of the world. The...
Inappropriation by Lexi Freiman
Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls’ school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade’s most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning...
God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin by Adah Nuchi
Illustrator: Rob Polivka Persecuted as Jews, Izzy Baline and his family emigrated from Russia to New York, where he fell in love with his new country. He heard music everywhere and was full to...
