Petty Business by Yirmi Pinkus
Translators: Evan Fallenberg, Yardenne Greenspan As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the...
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The Crime of Complicity by Amos N. Guiora
The Bystander in the Holocaust If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? In The Crime of Complicity,...
Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought
Edited by Dr. Stuart W. Halpern The Jews have ever been a people molded by the written word. It is no coincidence, therefore, that certain texts have come to play key roles in the...
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America’s poor black and Hispanic...
Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics by Jeremiah Unterman
Justice for All demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous influence on Jewish thought and law and also laid the basis for Christian ethics...
The Diplomat’s Daughter by Karin Tanabe
During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until...
Dirty Wars and Polished Silver by Lynda Schuster
The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school, she set...
Reason to Believe: Rational Explanations of Orthodox Jewish Faith by Chaim Jachter
Reason to Believe is veritable tour de force in defense of Orthodox Jewish faith. The author, a veteran teacher of Judaic Studies, an internationally known rabbi and dayan, faces the tough questions and perennial...
The Netanyahu Years by Ben Caspit
Ora Cummings, translator Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country’s history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu’s...
Bed-Stuy Is Burning by Brian Platzer
Do the Right Thing meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, in this “thrilling debut novel about marriage, gentrification, parenthood, race, and the dangerous bargains we make with ourselves” (Ann Packer, New York Times bestselling...
