Ike’s Gamble by Michael Doran
This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956—one of the most important events in the history of US policy in the Middle East—shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel, not Egypt,...
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The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and MetroWest by William Helmreich
From its founding in the late seventeenth century, Newark, New Jersey, was a vibrant and representative center of Jewish life in America. Geographically and culturally situated between New York City and its outlying suburbs,...
Shavuos Guess Who? by Arielle Stern
Patti Argodd, illustrator It’s exciting and interactive for children to guess the rhyming Shavuos riddles, then open the flap to reveal the answers. Cleverly designed so the very young will learn as they go…...
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
After one night’s deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation. Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life–married to a beautiful police officer and father of...
Bewitched by Solika and Other Judeo-Spanish Tales by François Azar
Petros Bouloubasis, illustrator Every morning, Solika walks past the palace windows, her breakfast basket in hand. At his window, the prince is dying to know what she has in there, but this is Solika’s...
What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin
Taking its title from a question often asked of polyglots, What Language Do I Dream In? is Elena Lappin’s stunning memoir about how language runs throughout memory and family history to form identity. Lappin’s...
By Light of Hidden Candles by Daniella Levy
In a mud hut in the Jewish Quarter of 16th-century Fez, a dying woman hands her granddaughter a heavy gold ring―and an even heavier secret. Five hundred years later, Alma Ben-Ami journeys to Madrid...
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first...
Yom Kippur Shortstop by David A. Adler
Andre Ceolin, illustrator Bam! It’s a speedy drive over second base. I jump and catch it. My whole team shouts, ‘Jacob, you saved the game!’; It’s Jacob’s third year in Little League, and he’s...
Chanting the Hebrew Bible, Second, Expanded Edition: The Art of Cantillation by Dr. Joshua R. Jacobson
In this encyclopedic text, completely revised and updated in this second edition, Joshua R. Jacobson presents the history of the ancient Jewish tradition of chanting the Bible and a comprehensive explanation of cantillation practice...
