Meir Panim: Lighting Up Life for Israel’s Neediest Residents Across Israel, Meir Panim responds to the growing needs of the country’s 1.75 million impoverished residents through various food and social service programs.
Title: When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Posted on: March 29th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsTitle: When General Grant Expelled the Jews Author: Jonathan Sarna Publisher: Schocken
Posted on: March 29th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsTitle: The Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to Freedom: Celebrating Ethiopian Jewish History, Traditions & Customs Editor: Rabbi Menachem Waldman Publisher: Koren Publishing
Reviewing The Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to Freedom
Posted on: March 20th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsThe Hebrew-English haggada provides a wealth of photographic evidence of the lives led by Ethiopian Jews. The pottery, the unembellished homes, school, and synagogues, the gaunt Jews in modest clothing and head coverings portray dedication to Torah values despite harsh political and topographical conditions.
Book Review on The Megillah: Majesty and Mystery
Posted on: February 29th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsRabbi Norman Lamm wrote and preserved the hundreds of eloquent and inspiring sermons he had delivered as a pulpit rabbi in Manhattan for 25 years prior to becoming president of Yeshiva University,
Reviewing Torah Tapestries: Shemos
Posted on: February 15th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsAnyone interested in meticulously researched writings important to the future of Am Yisrael should add 190-page hardcover Torah Tapestries: Shemos to public and private libraries.
Posted on: February 15th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsAn autobiography written with fond memories, Girl for Sale is for readers who appreciate haredi worldviews as well as peeks into history.
Posted on: February 2nd, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsAshira Greenberg is a pretty, talented and articulate young lady who, at the tender of age of seventeen, has just published a book.
Title: The Azrielli Papers: Dimensions of Orthodox Day School Education
Posted on: January 12th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsWhen Yaakov Avinu knew that he was about to move his family down to Mitzraim, his first priority was to establish a yeshiva. Ever since then, educating our young has continued to be a lifelong challenge and commitment for every Jew.
Posted on: January 11th, 2012
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsReaders of Clayton’s short stories know that he is not only a master craftsman, but that his stories are inquires into the purpose of life; he is a moral philosopher.
Title: The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond
Posted on: November 17th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsThere are three kinds of travelers: there are tourists, there are businesspeople, and then there are historians like Ben G. Frank. The last kind doesn’t simply go from here to there. They try to relive history and find the real meaning behind what they experience.
Posted on: October 5th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsGod's Favorite Prayers, by Tzvee Zahavy, makes for fascinating reading. It is an intelligent, sometimes amusing, and always highly readable essay addressed first and foremost to those who know "everything" - those so familiar with the prayers that they don't really need a siddur to follow the service.
Posted on: September 21st, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsIn 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: Stages of Spiritual Growth
Posted on: September 7th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsFor today's Jew seeking to grow spiritually, there's mussar, and then there is modern psychology. Armed with 20th century research on how behaviors develop and how humans create internal change, today's Jewish do-gooder has an arsenal of tools beyond Pirkei Avos and the mussar masters to work on problems like, say, gossiping or overeating.
Title: Soul to Soul – Writings from Dark Places
Posted on: August 17th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsEvery medical school in the world should have this book on the syllabus: once during first-year medical studies and again at residency. Pages 63-67 pretty much sum up the brutality of a given medical staff member's offhand remarks and intentional insensitivity in the presence of patients. They crush the spirits of otherwise valiant people struggling to live. Med students who assume superiority to their needy patients need not have airs. They're not G-d and not about to become His rival, either. Medical interventions have limits. And condescension kills people as much as disease can.
Title: The Family Guide to Touring Israel
Posted on: August 10th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsThe proof will be in your hands: some self-published books are remarkably wonderful. Lisa Aiken's The Family Guide to Touring Israel is a 382-page paperback with essentials even native Israelis need to know.
Title: Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride
Posted on: July 29th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsSavor the flavor and laugh along with the author as Reyna Simnegar teaches you about Persian cookery and life. Feldheim Publishing has done an outstanding job of presenting a handsome cookbook with references to normal human interactions in dating and marriage rather than pretending everyone adheres to "Three Dates and You're Done" behavior. Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride is as much about the author's cross-country courtship and marital adjustments as it is about food. The bonus is that you'll eat wonderfully aromatic, delicious food by following the author's simple recipes and her cheerful path to a well-adjusted life.
Title: The Borders of Inequality: Where Wealth and Poverty Collide
Posted on: July 29th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsBehind "the news" there's almost always a story that isn't being reported, and certain kinds of phenomenon occur almost simultaneously all over the world in almost every era.
In The Beginning… A New Chumash Workbook Helps Build Basic Skills
Posted on: June 29th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsRabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder and director of Project YES, an organization dedicated to guiding troubled teens, is trying to put himself out of business.
Title: Nachas Ruach: Torah-based Psychotherapy and Tools for
Posted on: June 15th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsNachas Ruach: Torah-based Psychotherapy and Tools for Growth & Healing is Dr. Naftali Fish's 309-page explanation of a treatment model utilizing Torah values for emotional and mental health. As noted on page 5, the Nachas Ruach Treatment Model tool is " validated by changing trends within the field of psychotherapy increased openness and motivation to discover or to develop alternative ways to understanding the nature of health and healing "
Posted on: June 7th, 2011
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsKosher cookbooks have come a long way to being what women need. Flimsy paperbacks and poorly bound hard covers with yellowed, deteriorating pages that kept falling out have become beautiful, helpful and long-lasting. With Kosher Elegance, author Efrat Libfroind brings classic culinary skills to the table with clear directions and illustrative photos that portray aroma and taste. You'll want to eat the pictures!
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