Czech Mates: Holocaust Legacy by David A Weiss
Take a journey to the “Old Country”. Learn about small town European life with all of its simple pleasures and hardships. Read about the onset of Nazi influence in the 1930’s and discover how...
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The Frum Revolution: A Comprehensive Solution to the Off-the-Derech Crisis by Eli Rietti
A chance reunion in a war zone with a former Yeshiva classmate leads David back to his hometown of Monsey, New York, in an attempt to reconnect to Judaism for the first time since...
A Perfect Life by Eileen Pollack
A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for...
The Influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrera’s Kabbalah on Spinoza’s Metaphysics by Miquel Beltrán
In this book the author seeks to find historiographical and textual evidence that Abraham Cohen de Herrera ‘s main kabbalistic work, Puerta del Cielo, influenced Spinoza’s metaphysics as it is expounded in his later...
Bellow’s People by David Mikics
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art. Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century―the winner of the Nobel Prize in...
Unexpected Israel: Stories You Never Read in the Media by Ruth Corman
Since 2011 Ruth Corman has traveled through the complex mosaic that is Israel to introduce readers to aspects of the country that never appear in the media the curious, the humorous, the moving and...
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo by Misha Klein
Being Jewish in Brazil—the world’s largest Catholic country—is fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and...
Strolling Through the Lower East Side With ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’
From Tablet Magazine A mother and daughter—both megafans of Sydney Taylor’s timeless kidlit—take a tour of Manhattan’s historic Jewish neighborhood By Marjorie Ingall “I’m totally a Henny,” I told my daughter Josie. “Everyone thinks...
49 Days: An Interactive Journal of Self-Development by Rivka Levy
49 Days is an interactive journal designed to help readers nurture their mindfulness, inner dimension and relationships. Over the course of seven weeks, readers are encouraged to focus on one area of inner work...
Poetica Magazine: Contemporary Jewish Writing (2016 Spring)
Poetry Editor: Michal Mahgerefteh Proofreader: Naancy Powell Outstanding writers included: Carol Alexander, Valerie Bacharach, Eva El Beze (France), Irene Bloom Grace Cavalieri, Alan Cohen (Israel), Leslie Cohen, Lilian Cohen (Australia) Ruth Fogelman (Israel), Jacqueline...
