From Lyrics To A Novel, Through America’s Pastime: Abie Rotenberg’s Newest Creation, The Season...

“When creating a work of music, I’ve experienced epiphanies – where a song in its entirety took literally minutes to write – as well as drawn out, lengthy endeavors that took years to complete.

With Complete Faith

Neuberger peppers the book, his fourth, with quotes from the Torah, the Psalms, the Prophets, and other classic Jewish sources to buttress his thesis that biblical prophesies and the words of the rabbis are referring directly to our times.

Defending G-d And Our Patriarchs

One of the most challenging questions posed is whether there are fundamental differences between divine justice and human justice.

In A Lyrical Way

Very few of the poems follow an expected rhyme or meter.

For Every Season

The Jewish Holiday Companion has articles for every Jewish holiday, and even contains entries for Yom HaShoah, Yom HaAtzma’ut, and Thanksgiving.

Holocaust Memoir From An Orthodox Viewpoint

The chronological voice within his writing is memoir-like in style – in the sense of a man looking back in time – but with the extant content of rapidly unfolding everyday events, like a diary.

Who Killed William Of Norwich?

How did an unresolved murder case turn into an accusation of ritual murder?

Looking At The High Holidays Through The Lens Of L’Dovid

Even when our prayers are ignored and troubles confront us, Rabbi Shoff teaches that it is the same God who sent the difficulties as who answered our prayers before.

Should He Stay Or Should He Go

His parents make it clear that they feel the right thing is for Avi to visit his grandfather, but they leave it up to him.

Across The Torah Landscape

Each essay, some adapted from lectures Furst prepared for live audiences, begins with several basic questions around a key topic.

Face To Face In 1948

In Culture Shock, readers will also come to identify with a culture from the other end of Orthodox Jewry’s spectrum.

Wisdom From The Sages

Our Sages have told us exactly how we should act – and how our children should act – in Pirkei Avos, Ethics of the Fathers.

Megillas Amestris

A second supposed difficulty actually becomes a reason to corroborate that Amestris is Esther.

Judging Book Covers

Whether the rest of us admit it or not, covers draw our attentions and create the initial impressions we have with books.

The Le Marais Express

The book takes us through 2 years in the life of Ann’s daughter, son-in-law and their new baby born in France.

Fighting The Good Fight

Chesler speaks directly to her erstwhile colleagues in the feminist movement who ostracized her for blowing the lid off the gnawing undercurrent of anti-Israel sentiment in their ranks.

Living With One Parent

The book is exquisitely illustrated and young children will find it very easy to relate to every page.

Confronting The Holocaust From A Child’s-Eye View

Ackerman’s clear, lucid prose throws the harshness of the narrative into sharp relief.

A Major Transition

The connection between what I experienced as a high school teenager and the adult I am today did not come easy to me.

Keeping The Kids Engaged – Before And During Pesach

Often I open Haggadot and find depictions of the Makos or slavery that I find troubling for a young audience.

Simchas Hachaim Publishes New Rabbi Avigdor Miller Sefer

It captures the love of the Jewish soul as only Shlomo Hamelech could portray it – and as only Rabbi Miller could explain it.

Through A Torah Lens

Erudite and academic, drawing from ancient and modern sources, the book can be discussed at the Shabbos table as well as in kollel.

Above And Beyond

For those who doubt or entirely disbelieve the phenomenon, this book will change your mind.

Aliyahlogue

Cyrelle Simon lived for over 45 years in West Lafayette, Indiana, where she and her late husband, Purdue biology professor Edward H. Simon, held many volunteer leadership positions in the Jewish community.

Reviving The Torah Ideal

In the introduction to the first volume, R. Katz discusses the Torah ideal, arguing that the Torah’s laws are intended to craft the perfect man and are not to be regarded as ends unto themselves.

All The Lincoln That’s Fit To Print

It’s almost pointless to try to summarize all of the fascinating information that Holzer’s research unearthed.

In His Own Words

The special charm of these letters is their immediacy and authenticity of emotion and description.

Mysterious Manuscripts

His phenomenal memory encompassed the Written Torah, the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, and all the major commentaries.

A YA Secret No Longer

Who hasn’t experienced how hard it can be to fit in?

Finally, The Jewish Harry Potter

Written with flowing language and engaging style, Attar weaves a spell that combines mystery, humor, adventure and Kabbalah in the most magical place in the world, the Old City of erusalem.

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