Piece of Mind by Michelle Adelman
At twenty-seven, Lucy knows everything about coffee, comic books, and Gus (the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo), and she possesses a rare gift for drawing. But since she suffered a traumatic brain...
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Our Jewish Robot Future by Leonard Borman
Meet the Haralsons—retired, eccentric, always discontented. Margarita, the post-menopausal narrator, wants a baby, while her heroic husband Alex is obsessed with finding the missing 11th commandment. Perhaps conjured from their obsessions, arrives John Chapman,...
Elisha Davidson and the Ispaklaria by M.R. Attar
The strangest summer of Elisha Davidson’s life turns into a reality-shattering adventure when Elisha figures out how to access an Ispaklaria’s powerful ancient secrets without ever leaving his own bedroom. Now Elisha is the...
Jewish Stories of Wisdom by Patrick Fischmann
A beautifully illustrated collection of old-world Jewish tales of faith and morality. Jewish Stories of Wisdom is the perfect antidote to our busy, modern lives. It serves as a daily companion that one can...
From Sinai to Ethiopia by Sharon Shalom
The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving...
Yearning to Breathe Free: My Parents’ Fight to Reunite during the Holocaust
by Murray Jack Lauicht with Peter Weisz On February 1, 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually become the author of this...
Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself by Donniel Hartman
Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion...
Soul Mazal: In the beginning by David Katz
Little is spoken of, and hardly remembered, concerning Shem, son of Noah. Yet is from him, in the Academy of Shem and Ever, that “Kabbalah Kadmonim” − Wisdoms of the Ancients, from Adam, Seth,...
Levi & Aya by Shoshana Banana
Take a ride back in time to the Wild West, where a young Levi Strauss builds his family business into a cornerstone of the multicultural boom town of San Francisco. A Jewpanese love story...
Béla’s Letters by Jeff Ingber
Through personal narrative and letters preserved for decades, Béla’s Letters tells the remarkable story of a large Eastern European family torn apart by war and the Holocaust, the extraordinary circumstances that each family member...
