New Jewish Books
From The Jewish Publication Society Save 30% off a selection of books in time for Passover! Visit ourPassover sale page for more information. To receive your discount, enter the code 6PSP5 in the promotion...
What has become ever clearer in recent years is that Longone — though she herself has never been a professional chef nor restaurateur nor author — is just as much an icon of gastronomic...
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in February 2015 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
The Anatomy Lesson tells the imagined story behind Rembrandt’s first large-scale masterpiece, “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.” Set on a single day in 1632, the novel begins as Amsterdam prepares for Justice...
Issues, Case Studies and Contemporary Responsa This book contains a selection of interesting and informative articles authored by orthodox rabbis and psychotherapists that are highly relevant and pertinent to religious psychotherapists, veterans and novices...
Even a surface reading of Tanach and Talmud tells the reader that there are other literary works to which the writers had access, which are not present in our Bible. Some of these works...
Hannah Nordhaus attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia—whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe—in this exploration of myth, family history, and the American West. La Posada—“place...
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...
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...
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...
