Title: Principles Of Spiritual Activism
Rabbi Avi Weiss has become legendary for his heroic activism on behalf of Jewish causes where others are content with private lamenting.
Title: A Never-Ending Tale: Illustrated Parables of the Ba’al Shem Tov and His Disciples
A Never-Ending Tale: Illustrated Parables of the Ba'al Shem Tov and His Disciples vividly outlines the lofty character traits that every Jew should strive to attain.
Live By It
There’s much, much more in Naftali’s remarkable life, and yet, ultimately, one wonders: this is all well and good, but where is Dr. Reich going with these stories?
A Yiddish Gem
While Grade never mentions who Rasseyner is, later research showed that the character is based on Rabbi Gershon Liebman, who headed up the group of Novardok-based yeshivas in France after World War II.
Title: Nazi Laws And Jewish Lives; Letters From Vienna
Hannah Ahrendt wrote about the banality of evil - the "ordinariness" of the everyday occurrences of evil behavior that befell Jews under the Nazi regime.
Title: The Rabbi and the CEO – The Ten Commandments for 21st Century Leaders
I was once a member of a congregation during a time that the New York Times was affected by a strike.
Title: Overcoming Infertility: A Guide for Jewish Couples
Many of the readers of The Jewish Press are already familiar with the author of the chapters in this new book.
Title: The Rarest Blue
I’ve always had an interest in the intersect between halacha, history, and archaeology. It is this interest that led me to research and write about the status of Purim in modern-day Israeli cities that are adjacent to ancient cities that had a wall around them in the days of Yehoshua Bin Nun. I concluded, in regards to Beit Shemesh at least, that there is much merit in observing a second day of Purim, on the 15th of Adar.
From Japan To Jerusalem
It’s amazing how a Jew raised with minimal religion can still feel visceral discomfort when asked to pray in front of a Buddha or participate in a cremation ceremony. That growing feeling of disjointedness ever so slowly spurred Liane’s interest in her own heritage.
Helping Children Process Their Feelings
Children’s books are becoming more and more important. Children are left too much on their own with their multitude of screens. Children need parents who believe in them and encourage them, says Rubin.
Rachmana Latzlan
Once you pick up To Mourn a Child, you will not be able to put it down, but not for the usual reasons. There is no suspense here, as we know from the outset the sad end of each story. It is rather the searing emotional intensity of this book that will grab you and compel you to keep reading.
Tanach As A Unified Whole
The vast majority of violations identified have a rabbinic resolution, often with more than one way to explain the situation.
Title: The Intellect and the Exodus
In The Intellect and the Exodus, Rabbi Jeremy Kagan attempts to reconcile the rationality of western thought and culture, with religious faith.
The Importance Of The Beit HaMikdash In Our Daily Prayers
Each chapter focuses on a unique aspect of temple service and how it relates to a unique aspect of our daily prayers.
Title: Not My Kind? I Don’t Mind!
When the Fine family (not related to the Feiners from Alone in Africa!) move into a new neighborhood, the twin siblings named Nesanel (again, not related to Nesanel Feiner) and Nechama set out on a very important mission – finding friends to rescue them from their boredom.
The Key To A Graceful, Grateful Life
I am sure that once the borrower reads this small-yet-powerful book, it won’t be returned for quite a while, if ever – because I can’t imagine anyone wanting to part with it!
On The Bookshelf
The very first Jewish author I ever came across was Sadie Weilerstein.
Title: Ponderables
In recent years, the attitude dubbed "orthopraxy", the notion that holds that fulfillments of halakha is sufficient on its own terms without serving, or being subordinate to, any higher purpose , has become fashionable in some circles. Most famously advocated by the late distinguished Israeli scientist Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Orthopraxy - which has become accepted practically if not avowedly by many Orthodox Jews, both in the US and Israel - has found a number of other proponents as well, a disproportionate number of whom are among the intellectual elite.
Title: Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison
Title: Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi PrisonAuthor: William SampsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
It's hard to believe, but nearly...
Title: Strange Names
This is everything a children's book should be: exciting, colorful, and easy to read.
Title: Shabbat The Right Way: Resolving Halachic Dilemma
Shabbat The Right Way: Resolving Halachic Dilemma is the latest book of Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen, a Jewish Press columnist and recognized posek, as well as the author, previously, of How Does Jewish Law Work, vol. 1-2 and The 613th Commandment.
Title: Ten Lost
When Sender Zeyv published his first novel Aleph Shin eight years ago, it captured a host of enthusiastic readers.
Tranquility Through Torah
The author uses the addiction framework as a prism through which to also reach a much larger audience – people who are unaware that certain habits mask addictive behaviors.
Shofar Stories
While these stores often have hundreds of shofars for sale, the book has stories about towns that lacked even a single shofar. And it was not that long ago that such things happened.
Title: For the Love of Israel and the Jewish People
These introductory lines capture the book's essence: "The land of Israel and the Jewish people are bound together in mysterious ways difficult to grasp. The relationship between them goes beyond the conventional"
Title: A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror
The attacks last week in Israel have once again brought to the fore the blind Islamist hatred for the Jewish people and the Jewish state they’ve succeeded in rebuilding.
Beyond Pirkei Avos
The sage Hillel summarized the entire Torah by saying, “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn it.”
Title: The Bugs Are Burning: The Role of Eastern Europeans in the Exploitation, Subjugation...
In this meticulously documented treatise of centuries old European anti-Semitism, authors Drs. Sheldon Hersh and Robert Wolf graphically depict the hellacious barbarism and heinous atrocities committed against the Jewish people throughout Eastern Europe before, during and after the Holocaust by those they believed to be their close neighbors and friends.
Title: Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders: Beyond the Kindertransport
Modern Jewish literature is replete with Holocaust memoirs, each one personally adding a unique dimension to the tragic, unspeakable horror of the event that defined the 20th century.