Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 by...
The book offers a compelling and accurate description of the challenges the Zionists faced between 1945–1949
School Daze
How much privacy is warranted once the information becomes public? What can everyone do when all the girls are talking about it among themselves?
Genuinely Funny Jewish Jokes
This book is good for kids, and seems to be less good for adults. It has a lot of puns, and when I told some of them to my parents they didn't think that they were funny. (But maybe my parents just don’t have a sense of humor.)
The Rebbe’s Timeless Guidance For Humanity
The Rebbe’s approach is elegant in its simplicity. It is a steadfast focus on moving forward and upward, imbuing every moment with meaning and consistent growth.
A Handbook For The Holidays – And More
One of the beauties of this book is its superb organization. Topics are split up into logical sections with clear titles and footnotes, allowing the reader to quickly locate the answers to everyday questions.
Judging Book Covers
Whether the rest of us admit it or not, covers draw our attentions and create the initial impressions we have with books.
An Appreciation Of Rav Lichtenstein
A student of Rav Yosef Soloveitchik and of Rav Yitzchak Hutner, he would impart their wisdom to generations of Jewish students in America and in Israel for over a half-century.
Book Review: Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters”
This book is, "The riveting and untold story of the intelligence task force that launched a dynamic new front in the war on terror. A thrill ride with one of the most important Israeli start-ups of them all."
Title: Contemporary Halakhic Problems: Volume 7
One of the more forceful and vital chapters is towards the end of the book when Rabbi Bleich discusses vaccinations.
A Gadol’s Holocaust Memoir
The memoir follows a year and a half of the travels and travails of Rabbi Hirschprung from the beginning of World War II until his arrival in Japan.
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.
Rabbi Kahane is Still Right
The action and suspense surrounding Kahane’s life includes many historic moments and reads like a thriller
Here’s a Holocaust Story with a Happy Ending
Dina Gold's "Stolen Legacy" is the story of one woman's victory against the Nazis, albeit 60 years later.
Who Killed William Of Norwich?
How did an unresolved murder case turn into an accusation of ritual murder?
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.
Two Holocaust Memoirs, Two Perspectives
"The three of us survived the war only because of my father's ingenuity and guts."
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.
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.
From The Rebbe’s Pen
A unique multivolume collection of English letters by the Lubavitcher Rebbe has just been released, shedding new light on one of the greatest Jewish leaders of modern times.
Briefs And Gift Guide
All the books reviewed in this supplement can serve as great gifts; the books reviewed briefly below do as well.
Titles for Children
Admit it; when Chanukah comes we all become kids again. But still, the actual kids get pride of place on this holiday, as they do for all holidays. Anyway, they’ll certainly be the ones clamoring for gifts. Whether it’s for your children, or relatives’ or friends’, why not treat them to the gift of a good book?
Great Men; Great Writers
While we know a lot about our greatest forebears from the Chumash and later biblical generations, even if there are often gaps in their life stories, we know considerably less about the Sages of the Mishnah (the Tennaim) and of the Gemara (the Amora’im), collectively known as Chazal – our Sages, of blessed memory.
There Is A Season
The Holidays are over (please, no applause). But if you find yourself already missing them, rejoice, rejoice. A pleasurable new compendium of poetry by newcomer Yossi Huttler will keep you warm until Chanukah, Purim and – dare we say it too soon – Pesach once again come into view.
Human Destiny And The Jewish People
Sadly, Dr. Zvi Faier, the gifted Torah scholar, theoretical physicist and poet, passed away in 2009, on the 10th of Tevet 5769, after a long illness borne with dignity and courage. There recently appeared the first of two posthumously published works that show the amazing breadth of his knowledge, insights and interests.
Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do About It
Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do About It, a new book by Dr. Rene Levy, tackles a problem that has plagued the Jewish people from very early on in their history; the destructive aspects of which have been responsible for some of their greatest historical calamities and continue to threaten the unity of the Jewish people today.
The Kosher Grapevine: Exploring the World of Wine
Author Irving Langer provides his own look at wine-making as well as the nature of the storage barrels used to age wines for taste perfection. He intersperses the book with Jewish historical facts and figures, a few jokes and photographs, and advice on how to pair wines with specific foods.
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
Title: The Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to Freedom: Celebrating Ethiopian Jewish History, Traditions &...
Title: The Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to Freedom: Celebrating Ethiopian Jewish History, Traditions & Customs
Editor: Rabbi Menachem Waldman
Publisher: Koren Publishing
Title: Noach: Stranded And Branded
Here is a volume about a man sublime,
Absolutely, incontrovertibly outstanding in his time.
A profound character study of ancestor Noach
Rendered in syncopated and metered rhyme.
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