Capturing Chasidic Life In Muted Colors
It won’t surprise anybody that the vast majority of the images Haruni’s book are of men and boys.
Shalom Aleichem For Grownups
Mitchell First has given me something I never had and didn’t realize I was missing: a mature perspective on Shalom Aleichem.
Title: Exodus and Emancipation
Each year, at the Pesach Seder, we enumerate the kindnesses that Hashem bestowed upon our ancestors. Has there ever been a population of slaves that was redeemed in so glorious a way - their oppressors punished, their physical exertion remunerated, their system of beliefs revealed Divinely, their nationhood established in the land they were promised centuries before?
Title: Four in One
The Jewish world owes Yaffa Ganz a big "Thank you!" for the newly available reprint of some of her classic stories.
Title: Where Am I?
A sweet book for young fingers learning to turn pages, Where Am I is an introduction to literature for little ones. Familiar places and situations will delight the tots identifying them.
Masters of Deceit
For the Arabs and their supports throughout the world, Deir Yassin has become a rallying cry against the state of Israel.
Making Asher Yatzar Meaningful
The Asher Yatzar book discussed the kavanos we should have while eating: food should serve as a function with which we should have the energy to serve Hashem.
A Philosopher Makes the Case for Orthodox Judaism
Lebens opens GJU with a discussion of conversion under Jewish law – even though this book is not addressed to non-Jews – to illustrate that commitment to Judaism begins, first and foremost, with a commitment to the Jewish people.
Enhancing Our Spiritual Relationship With G-d
In Judaism, love is always related to knowing and being known.
Widen The Derech
It’s not about troubled youth, but any youth that may face troubles. Look at trouble not as an adjective but as a verb. The core issue of such youth is the feeling of loneliness.
Remember The Holocaust
"Hate is easy; it takes real courage to love."
Book Review: “Jewish Lives Matter” by Fiamma Nirenstein
Human Rights and Anti-Semitism
Make Each Day Count
Convinced that her daily affirmations were reaching people and offering them a shot of positivity to get through their day, Betesh created Thank You, Hashem.
Rebbetzin Jungreis’ Book On Audio CD
Hineni, the renowned Torah outreach organization, has announced that the latest best selling book of its founder and president, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis is now available in an audio CD version.
Holocaust Survivor Fulfills Husband’s Deathbed Wish
Sophia’s mission continues. “I want every high school student in the United States to read Mordechai’s book,” Martin’s Story: An Orphan’s Triumphant Journey, she says, unwavered by this seemingly insurmountable task.
Getting To The Soul Of Parenting: A Conversation With Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
A house filled with chutzpah is an unsafe home. The world is an especially frightening place these days; when you parent in unity, the whole environment feels good. The child will not have to look to the wrong outlets for love.
When Bad Things Happen…To Anybody
As he freely admits, this question is more difficult for us rabbis, because we recite the expected formula of faith to our community members rather regularly, and here you can repeat after me: Hashem has His plan.
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: Rashi’s Daughters, Book One – Yocheved
Ms. Anton's book falls into that genre termed historical fiction, but in this extensive volume of over 360 pages, one can begin to wonder if Ms. Anton had a fly on the wall, so realistic are her characterizations. One could wonder it her real calling is as a "medievalist."
Getting To Know The Rebbe
This book is more than just a biography of one of the leading figures in the Jewish world of the past century.
Getting More Intimately Acquainted with Onkelos
Onkelos was always heroic in my mind. Before sitting down to write about the book, I couldn’t resist this opportunity to check how accurately I remembered the stories of my youth.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Eighteen: Peace in the Middle East
The emergency bell clanged throughout the valley of the Shoshana kibbutz. Workers who were building the first stone edifice on the settlement put down their chisels and masonry tools. Field hands set aside their scythes and their sickles and started back toward the compound of mud and wood dwellings. Within minutes, all of the settlers sat crowded together on the benches in the dining hall. With great indignation, Ben Zion related how the Arabs had ambushed them at the well and stolen his horse and two rifles. He demanded that a small force be organized immediately and set off in retaliation.
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?
Chin Up
Morah Becky describes her own foray into the world of Jewish children’s literature as a lesson in emunah and Siyata Dishmaya (help from Above).
Title: Can I Play Chess on Shabbas: The Do’s and Don’ts of Shabbas, Made...
The ArtScroll and Feldheim halacha books are comprehensive, well researched, clear, practical and among the best that the two publishers have to offer.
An Interesting Take On The Talmud
While the Talmud is 2,711 pages, in a little over 200 pages, Kirsch does a good job of detailing the main topics and themes of the various tractates.
Title: The Equation of Life: Making Your Life and History Add Up
Twenty five plus 11=36. That is "the equation of life, since it is the operating principle of all Creation," writes Rabbi Pinchas Winston. A former Aish HaTorah professional, the teacher, public speaker and author proves that these numbers indicate what should have happened in Gan Eden: history would have come to a glorious, painless end and we'd be better off for it.
Title: Strange Names
This is everything a children's book should be: exciting, colorful, and easy to read.
On The Bookshelf
Rabbi Mayer Schiller is a Skver-Rachmistrivka chassid with a passion for the ideology of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch. Born to a non-observant family, Rabbi...
Title: The Shmuz on the Parsha
You've probably seen the bumper stickers, bold black letters announcing "The Shmuz." They're all over the place - Brooklyn, Queens, Monsey, Lakewood. Well, now, "the Shmuz" doesn't have to be just a bumper sticker you pass on the road. "The Shmuz" is in your local bookstore.