New Jewish Books
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Hagaon Rav Avraham Hafuta has been a pioneer in the baal teshuva movement for over 50 years and has raised the spirits of thousands of people around the world with his uplifting torah insights....
This book is composted of fascinating vignettes of the community of Jews encountered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birthplace. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five,...
Lev Pearlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife Josephine and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev’s and Josephine’s viewpoints, Part I...
