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...
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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...
The Blind Angel: New Old Chassidic Tales by Tovia Halberstam & Joshua Halberstam
For twenty-five years, Rabbi Tovia Halberstam, a scion of leading Chassidic dynasties, told riveting Chassidic tales to an audience of thousands on the Yiddish radio in New York. These legends, as precious and rich...
To Stand & Serve: On Being a Kohen; Essays in Memory of Marc Weinberg
What is kehuna? The term is often translated as “priesthood,” and the Jewish kohanimare indeed charged with ministering God’s Temple, yet kehuna signifiesmuch more than that. A kohen is a representative of God on...
Index to the Hirsch Chumash by David H. Kerschen
The Hirsch Chumash – so brilliant in content and expansive in scope – now has a comprehensive index that allows easy access to a specific subject, word, or reference. This 312-page volume has 3...
