New Jewish Books
Career Guidance for Sabbath Observant Jewish Professionals Learn How to Get That Job While Keeping the Faith. Balancing religious and workplace obligations is a tricky business. You want to remain true to your values,...
Like many juicy mysteries, Forgiving Máximo Rothman, AJ Sidransky’s debut novel, begins with a murder. In this case, the victim is Max Redmond, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor found dead in his Washington Heights apartment....
Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with...
A cosmic evil millions of years old has now successfully torn apart the generation long alliance founded by the crew of the ‘Alouette’ and their companions. Only Sarah and Marvin, children from the two...
Jessica Setbon, trans. Originally published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem in l962, the Gefen Publishing House has performed an important service for academic researchers and the larger non-Hebrew-speaking public by producing the first English-language...
In 1940 Noah Flug is 15 years old. Each day he risks his life as a member of the youth underground organization in the Lódz Ghetto. Why? Because from 1940 onwards this teenager has...
“Everything grows in the suburbs. Grass. Trees. Flowers. Ugly ideas. Take, for example, anti-Semitism.” What happens to an ordinary suburban family when the father is kidnapped by neo-Nazi thugs? Nora Miller’s perfect suburban world...
Four unlikely foreigners gather for a funeral at the top of the world, reciting the Jewish Mourner’s Kadish under the midnight sun of the Norwegian Sea. In an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, Frances...
edited by Zev Farber Maggid Books – International Rabbinic Fellowship The essays, written by rabbis, ethicists and physicians, have some overlap, but surprisingly they manage to approach the issue from new and different angles....
