A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis
No grief should be privileged, and no grief should be silenced. A Prayer of Six Wings is an account of the poet Owen Lewis’s experience in the year following Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood Massacre on...
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Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee
It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from...
The Holy and the Broken by Ittay Flescher
A Cry for Israeli-Palestinian Peace from a Land That Must Be Shared When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an...
Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross
When a tight-knit family moves from Brooklyn to Maine, their lives are upended by an event that will alter their new community forever in this bighearted, sparkling debut for fans of Now Is Not...
The Jews of Edirne by Jacob Daniels
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the...
The Scrapbook by Heather Clark
The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction. Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls hard...
The Jewish South: An American History by Shari Rabin
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other...
Planting Seeds of the Divine by Yiscah Smith
Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice Experiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within us,...
Laughing in Yiddish by Jamie Wendt
“To tell a long story short, Papa says, / and then proceeds to tell bits of a long story.” Poet Jamie Wendt does the same in her new collection Laughing in Yiddish, and through...
In the Family Way by Laney Katz Becker
Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one...
