Last Song Before Night by Ilana C. Myer
A high fantasy following a young woman’s defiance of her culture as she undertakes a dangerous quest to restore her world’s lost magic in Ilana C. Myer’s Last Song Before Night. Her name was...
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Reading Genesis: Beginnings by Beth Kissileff
Deuteronomy 32:47 says the Pentateuch should not be ‘an empty matter.’ This new anthology from Beth Kissileff fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical...
From Ashes Into Light by Gudrun Mouw
FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT is a transpersonal tale of epic tragedy, spirituality, family, and personal redemption. It is told through three distinct voices: the haunting story of Ruth, a Jewish adolescent during Kristallnacht in...
Master of Ceremonies by Joel Gray
Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in...
Shabbat Hiccups by Tracy Newman
Jonah loves Shabbat. But this week, as he helps his family set the table for dinner, something unexpected happens: he gets the hiccups! His sister, grandma, mom, cousin, and dad all suggest remedies, but...
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker by Devra Lehmann
Serious. Sad. Informative. First-time author Devra Lehmann produces an outstanding explanation of the once-shocking philosophy of the now-revered Benedict de Spinoza. The detailed, chronological biography opens with a flashback to the most dramatic event...
Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions by Jacob S. Dorman
Jacob S. Dorman offers new insights into the rise of Black Israelite religions in America, faiths ranging from Judaism to Islam to Rastafarianism all of which believe that the ancient Hebrew Israelites were Black...
Books posted in February 2016
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of February 2016: Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit Athar by Shlomo Kalo The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb Béla’s...
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...
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,...
