Shekhina by Leonard Nimoy
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy Do you think that making people more aware of the presence of the Shekhina is important because there is more evil in the world today? Let me put it this way. The...
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A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969 by Johanna Reiss
It is 1969, and Johanna Reiss has been convinced by her husband, Jim, to revisit Holland, where she was born, and then to write a memoir of her childhood. It is to be a...
Purim Its Observance and Significance by Avie Gold
A presentation based on Talmudic and traditional sources A holiday of delirious joy, of friendship, of charity, of brotherhood, of rededication to the ideals of Judaism – all of these are Purim. It is...
Why the Rabbi Played Clarinet in the Sauna by Dina Shtull
This delightful story about the life of a 20th century rabbi will entertain and enlighten children of all backgrounds. Jack’s solutions to his problems teach universal messages that can be applied far beyond the...
Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible, Bewilderments reflects on the book of Numbers. In the book of Numbers, what should have been for the Israelites...
The Queen Who Saved Her People by Tilda Balsley and Ilene Richard
Tilda Balsley and illustrator Ilene Richard repeat their earlier success with the Readers’ Theater, Let My People Go. This time the story is about Esther who succeeds in convincing the King to stop the...
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
Why Mark Rothko Dropped Out of Yale An excerpt from Annie Cohen-Solal’s new biography of one of the most influential American painters of the 20th century How could a young man of 18 years—the...
Jewish Thought, Jewish Literature, Jewish Politics
A Tikvah Summer Seminar for University Students | New York City | August 3—7, 2015 The Tikvah Summer Seminar for University Students offers participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in the sources and dilemmas...
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman
Anonymous Soldiers re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial unrest that culminated in the end of British rule and the UN resolution to create two...
Echo Still by Tim Tibbitts
Fig’s life in seventh grade is perfectly normal: his Life Science teacher hates him, his dad is forcing him to attend bar mitzvah classes because his mom would have wanted it, and he has...
