A Remarkable Kindness by Diana Bletter
Through a largely hidden ceremony…four friends discover the true meaning of life. It’s 2006 in a seaside village in Israel, where a war is brewing. Lauren, Emily, Aviva and Rachel, four memorable women from...
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A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan by Sara Koplik
A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan by Sara Koplik describes the situation of Jews in that country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly 1839-1952. It examines the political, economic...
It’s a Small, Small, Small Press World
Where Jewish writers are finding homes these days, and why By Adam Kirsch …The real question for the future of publishing—and, more important, of literature—is what happens to the 99 percent of books that...
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never...
A Jewish Baker’s Pastry Secrets by George Greenstein
Recipes from a New York Baking Legend for Strudel, Stollen, Danishes, Puff Pastry, and More George Greenstein has a gift for teaching home bakers to think, work, and bake like the pros with his...
Forever in Faith by Rebbetzin Bluma Teitelbaum with B. Cohen
It was dark and cold, and we were working, exerting ourselves, hacking boulders, dragging stones, and running back and forth. We worked all night without receiving a morsel to eat or drink. But each...
Joshua 1-12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Thomas B. Dozeman
The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries An acknowledged expert on the Hebrew Bible, Thomas Dozeman offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the book of Joshua and explores the nature, function,...
The Shemittah Guide by Yissachar Dov Krakowski
This is a very unique guide to shemitta. It was created to help navigate anyone through the practical applications of shemitta observance in modern day Israel. Shemitta is an area of halacha that wasn’t...
The Voyage by Roberta Kagan
A Historical Novel set during the Holocaust, inspired by real events On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, a ship that was leaving Germany on it’s way to Cuba. Hitler...
Working Toward Moshiach by Roy S. Neuberger
The world is poised on the brink of cosmic events. Will the coming years bring environmental disaster, G-d forbid? Catastrophic conflict? World flooding from global warming? Epidemics? Political chaos? The Biblical Prophets told us...
