A History of the Palestinian People – From Ancient Times to the Modern Era
Assaf A. Voll has written one of the most comprehensive books on the history of the Palestinian People.
Review: A History of the Palestinian People – From Ancient Times to the Modern...
Assaf A. Voll has written one of the most comprehensive books on the history of the Palestinian People.
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.
Bird’s Head Haggadah Revealed – The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative & Religious Imagination
Bird’s Head Haggadah Revealed
The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative & Religious Imagination
By Marc Michael Epstein, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011
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.”
The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of...
Deir Yassin “was not the peaceful village many later claimed it to be.”
Avoiding Harm, Keeping Halacha
His extensive research and considerable expertise notwithstanding, Rabbi Weiner writes in a manner that is clear to the scholar and layperson alike.
The Rav Who Brought Torah to Los Angeles
The older I get, the more I realize that when I was younger I had opportunities to learn from people who had much Torah to share, and I did not take full advantage of those opportunities.
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.
Title: Judaism Reclaimed: Philosophy and Theology in the Torah
Today, mysticism abounds, whether from the traditions of Chasidism, the Arizal, the Maharal, or some new combination. And yet, these approaches do not satisfy everyone.
Title: Introduction to the Talmud
For whom was this work written? There have been other attempts to introduce the Talmud to beginners, but none of them appeal across the board as does Introduction to the Talmud.
Rav Kook And Rav Shagar
There’s so much to say about Torah Goes Forth from Zion that it would require a small book to properly review it all.
The Rabbi of Buchenwald: The Life and Times of Herschel Schacter
When I heard that The Rabbi of Buchenwald had been published, I was delighted, especially since I knew the book would not be just a tribute to Rabbi Hershel Schacter, but a highly significant, meticulously researched work of critical scholarship. And I was right.
Believers Respond
Why unpack that can of worms when it seems like the repository of our experiential faith has never been deeper and more sound?
A Heroic Life
He powerfully argues against the stereotype of Jews marching like sheep to the gas chambers: The great majority remained honest, dignified, pristine and heroic…
Book Review: “The Great Revolt” by Dr. Michael Ben Ari
The winners write the history books
Title: The Oral Law: The Rabbinic Contribution to Torah sheBe’al Peh
Rabbi Schimmel’s greatest contribution, aside from his organization and clarity, is his discussion of the rabbinic mind.
First Ever Book About the Jewish Festivals for Emerging Jewish Communities Released in Time...
The author of the book Ronit Treatman, the daughter of Israeli diplomats who speaks several languages and lives in Philadelphia, was inspired to write the book after she became involved with the Bnei Anousim, the tens of millions of people around the world descended from forcibly converted Spanish and Portuguese Jews through the organization Reconectar.
Protocols: Exposing Modern Antisemitism
Protocols: Exposing Modern Antisemtism demonstrates in chapter after chapter that many of the claims against Israel by supposed objective authorities is in reality biased and error-ridden demonization.
Rabbi Meir Kahane: A Man Who Never Gave Up
Perhaps his most impressive trait – one I did not fully appreciate before reading Mrs. Kahane’s work – is the tirelessness with which he worked for his goals.
The Unknown World Of A 17th Century Jewish Doctor
As a renowned doctor, Tuviya served as the personal physician to five successive sultans. It was during this time that in the year 1708 Tuviya published Ma’ase Tuviya (first printed in Venice).
Book Review: ‘October 7, Antisemitism and the War on the West’ by Fiamma Nirenstein
Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein reveals how the Oslo Accords and the Two State Solution are part of the attempt to undermine Israel.
Torah And Psychology Combine For Timely Wisdom
The presentation was spellbinding. He spoke about the important role of humor (it was the month of Adar) from both a psychological and a Torah perspective.
Jewish Solidarity, the Ideal and the Reality in the Turmoil of the Shoah
An essential scholarly volume on the Shoah
The Story You’ve Never Heard
This story inspired my parents to name me Rachel; they too had to wait for years to be reunited while my father, Natan Sharansky, was imprisoned in the Soviet gulag.
Sing A New Song
Throughout this sefer the insight of the Vilna Gaon is joined with the Torah of R’ Tzadok and the Ramchal.
Title: The Secret Life: A Book of Wisdom from the Great Teacher
This book left me profoundly moved, and changed.
Title: Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira – Sermons from the Years of Rage
Although the manuscripts of the Rebbe’s writings were brought to Israel many years ago, this publication reveals extensive new information on the details surrounding their burial and discovery.
“And None Shall Make Them Afraid” A New Book by Rick Richman
An interview with the author
Book Reviews
It might still be two weeks to Pesach, but is never too early to start thinking about Afikomen presents.