New Jewish Books
In the Vein of The Alchemist, Harry Potter, and The Lord of the RingsThe Age of Prophecy series transports you back 3000 years, to the epic battle between the Israelite Kings and Prophets. Lev,...
In March, Jill at Rhapsody in Books reviewed One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper, about a rabbi’s son who is not convinced his life has any meaning. At once both tragic...
She was only 14. A sensitive Jewish girl with a flair for writing, trapped in the maelstrom of the Holocaust. The only repository for her deepest feelings: a diary, found abandoned soon after the...
In offering a comprehensive account of Syria’s key Jewish communities at an important juncture in their history, this pioneering study – now available in paperback – also throws light on the broader effects of...
Harvey Sheldon’s History of Jewish Comedy reveals the Jewish contributions to American comedy. What made the Jewish comedians so popular with American audiences? Comedy has always been a distinguishing characteristic of the Jewish people....
What we do in shul is central to our Avodas Hashem. It also shapes and develops our hearts and minds to become closer to Him, and better to our fellow man. In our days,...
Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and...
This Purim/Lent I am giving away a genealogy/adoption chapbook for five days on Kindle, Friday, March 14th – Tuesday, March 18th. Here’s a description:“Reunions in Spring: Meditations for a Holiday Table” is based on...
Escape Velocity works under a very simple assumption: The Haggadah is the one source Jews use, on the one night they have, to express, and be impressed, by their faith. Escape Velocity sees to...
Susana Weich-Shahak, has just won the European Prize for Folklore for her work on the Moroccan Sephardic Romancero, published 2013. This is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish ballads from the Spanish romancero tradition that have...
