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.

How To Live In The Chassidic Tradition

There are those who highlight the diversity of these different teachings, seeing each rebbe as teaching a separate path.

Wolf In Hijab

Because she is keenly aware that anti-Semitism may start with the Jews but never ends with the Jews, she makes the logical connection between the opprobrium for both America and Israel so commonplace on the political left.

A New Perspective On The Jewish State

In this narrative of history, it is the third world Palestinians who are victims of the marauding Jews, of course.

From The Depths

Their memoirs capture these experiences through a Torah-faith point of view.

Reinvigorating The Study Of Tanach

The penultimate section of the book serves as a primer to modern Biblical scholarship and Orthodox responses.

A Topsy Turvy Life

While still a student in a small Midwest college she learns that her aunt in New York has passed away, resulting in her life turning topsy turvy.

Multiple Dimensions, A Parshah At A Time

For each weekly reading, Rabbi Grysman begins with a synopsis of the Torah portion, followed by a focus on a major issue.

Retracing Horrors

Goldsmith himself went on his own “voyage of discovery” to the places where his grandfather and uncle landed and were sent.

From Europe To Palestine To The U.S. – The Story Of A Man, His...

Leon experienced the War of Independence from a soldier’s perspective, while remaining true to his Jewish ideals and beliefs.

An Israel Love Story With a Twist

"Fields of Exile" provides a glimpse into the horrors of academic anti-Israelism, experienced by one firmly rooted in the left.

It’s All From Hashem

A chacham striving for self-control over his emotion to act vindictively against someone who wronged him should make use of the concept of hashgachah pratisto achieve this goal – as if the aggressor had no free-will and was compelled to wrong him.

Simple Yet Profound

This work contains three important essays on the essential questions of modern religious Tanach study.

Looking Forward

Written entirely through Frayda’s eyes, the reader is drawn by her unassuming personality.

Seeing The Kings, Anew

Adopting an ancient exegetical approach that is based on midrashic readings of the text, thematic connections that span between various books of the Bible are revealed.

Different From You And Me

“Have you forgotten your dreams?” The Hope Merchant asks a defeated and hopeless Lily when she “happens” upon his shop.

Back To The Garden

The universe was created by God out of nothing; it has not always existed.

Inside The Lubavitcher Rebbe

He combined intellectual achievement with deep spirituality and religious devotion.

Once More Into The Shidduch Crisis

Of course it is disingenuous to tell a person from a non-rabbinic, non-rosh yeshiva home to make an effort.

A Jewish Walter Mitty

Green was an American volunteer in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, but something happened In Israel that has haunted him ever since.

A Pioneer Of Holocaust Commemoration

In this book, lovingly and admiringly written by Harry's wife Marion, his partner in all his endeavors, the reader is granted a ringside seat to every detail in how this project was conceived and carried to fruition.

God’s Tech Boom

The author begins by distinguishing between what he calls inner/sacred technology and external/profane technology.

Terrors From The Past

I often found myself holding my hands to my mouth in utter amazement at the power of the writing, sometimes so engrossed I forgot to breathe.

Enriching Your Study Of Tanach

His students can attest that Rabbi Blau does not waste one extra word as he opens the richness of the text.

Living Waters

Although the book is a light, and not to be taken in anyway as a halachic, treatise, there are some poignant moments and you may just learn a thing or two.

Publishing In The Digital Age

Everyone involved had to be physically present in one office to get a book published.

Accusations And Anti-Semitism

Witnessed by Theodore Herzl, who was a journalist for a Viennese newspaper covering the trial, the cause célèbre became the spark that eventually caused the rise of the State of Israel in modern times.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

When I give this book, the parents look at the gold Caldecott Medal on the front cover and smile, but look up quizzically – a book for a newborn?

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