Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer
Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as...
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A Speaker Is a Wilderness by Anna Goodman Herrick
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole Weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness. ...
The Last of the Light by Alexander Shalom Joseph
One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that the world will end in one month. In the thirty days leading up to the last day of...
Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir by Seth Lorinczi
When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get. Like many children of immigrants, Seth Lorinczi knew...
Schlepping Across The Nile: Collected Stories by Aaron Zevy
In the footsteps of Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt, and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy’s Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories, culled...
Between the Bridge and the Barricade by Iris Idelson-Shein
Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times....
(In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting by Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
(IN)SIGHTS is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the challenges of its peaceful resolution, winning praise from across the political spectrum. Itshares co-author Gidi Grinstein’s personal experiences in...
The Snarling Girl and Other Essays by Elisa Albert
In sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos of punk, all in the...
The Beech Forest by Marlis Wesseler
Lisa Braun struggles to understand both her own life and the tragic historic events that haunt her in this engaging new novel written in Marlis Wesseler’s characteristically understated, confiding prose. The novel begins with...
Street Corner Dreams by Florence Kraut
A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . . . Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her...
