New Jewish Books
Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator...
Visit the people who make Torah scrolls and decorations. Find out how parchment is scraped and stretched, how tree sap becomes ink, how a computer program checks for mistakes, and why people spend so...
reyf: According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster, shrimp, pork, fish without scales, the mixing of meat and dairy. Also, imperfect, intolerable, offensive, undesirable, unclean, improper, broken, forbidden, illicit. Fans of Augusten Burroughs...
It’s a sunny fall day in Maya’s neighborhood, and all her neighbors are busy with outdoor activities, from releasing some young butterflies to organizing a birthday scavenger hunt. But Maya learns that today is...
Welcome to this special issue of Jewish Fiction .net! #18 our chai issue! Here you celebrate the chai of Jewish Fiction .net with a unique issue containing 33 first-rate works of fiction, originally written...
In his writings, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch offered profound and original insights into the meaning of all aspects of Jewish life and thought. His successor, Rav Dr. Salomon Breuer, and his grandson, Rav Dr....
In this playful version of The Little Red Hen, a young girl enlists her animal friends to help make the challah for Rosh Hashanah. With humorous, lively illustrations, this story captures the values of...
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz, features a lively critique of the controversial new picture book Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf by Greg Wolfe. You can hear...
Further information Sunday, November 6, 2016 Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York City
We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes,...
