Around the Passover Table by Tracy Newman
Illustrator: Adriana Santos The candles are lit, the seder plate filled, and the matzo stacked high. Join in to read, sing, eat, and observe the holiday. The many steps of a Passover seder are...
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Ben and the Bishop by Judith Weinshall Liberman
Ilustrated by Gail Davis BEN AND THE BISHOP tells a story about a Jewish boy named Ben who lives in the German town of Speyer during the eleventh century, at the time of the...
The Women of the Torah: Commentaries from the Talmud, Misrash, and Kabbalah by Barbara L. Thaw Ronson
Viewed through the lens of the ancient talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic commentaries, this book examines, in biblical sequence, the scriptural passages related to our ancestral mothers, wives, and daughters. The chosen excerpts, clearly documented,...
Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel by Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Erez Zadok
English and Hebrew Edition Koren Publishers is proud to announce the publication of the world’s first Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel, conceived and written by acclaimed Batman comics creator and Jewish cartoonist Jordan B. Gorf...
When We Were Shadows by Janet Wees
Walter is a young child when his parents decide to leave their home in Germany and start a new life in the Netherlands. As Jews, they know they are not safe under the Nazi...
Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky The twentieth century produced a galaxy of extraordinary Jewish historians. Gershom Scholem stands out among them for the richness and power of his historical imagination. Born in Berlin...
Hand in Hand by Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum
Illustrator: Maya Shleifer Separated from her family, Ruthi struggles to find hope in this universal story of loss and love, by holding tight to a childhood promise.
The Passover Story: Celebrating Freedom by Sarah Mazo
On Passover, Jews around the world celebrate the redemption of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. Moses, the leader of the Israelites, was empowered by God to demand of Pharaoh, the Egyptian ruler, to let...
The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel
When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and...
The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom by Tirzah Firestone
A highly respected rabbi, therapist, and teacher restores women’s spiritual lineage to Judaism and empowers women to reclaim their rightful connection to Jewish teachings, Kabbalah, and to their own spiritual wisdom.
