Rabbi Cohen’s Odyssey To The East
After deeply exploring Eastern religion and philosophies, mastering the martial arts, and dedicating years in search of truth, self-discipline and character refinement, Rav Dov Ber Cohen recognized all these things when he encountered Torah true Judaism.
Finding Self-Help In The Torah
You will find commentary on the Torah explaining key takeaways from Avraham’s mission to leave his household, and taamei hamitzvot, explanations of the commandments... Yet you will also learn from G.I. Joe: “Knowing is half the battle.”
A New Look At The Life Of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
Dr. Sokol presents Rabbi Yochanan’s refusal to make the first move toward reconciliation as a “heroic choice” to “valorize respect for Torah’s masters over his own search of Torah truth.”
Applying The Mishna Everyday
Rabbi Spero reminds us that we have to stand up for our beliefs. This is the only way to garner respect.
Revealing The Hidden Part Of The Mishna
The Soul of the Mishna is a masterwork on teaching us how to see what was always there in front of our eyes the whole time.
The Haftoras Are Not Random
Rabbi Bezalel Naor has masterfully taken Rav Kook's commentary and made it readable and comprehensible to the English reading audience in The Legends of Rabbah Bar Bar Hannah with the Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook.
Title: Sarah Dreamer
Its rhyme scheme is a little off, and the illustrations, while colorful and cheery, are pretty standard cartoon fare. But the message! Oh, the message! It will grab you by the heart right away.
Broad Collection Takes A Deeper Look At Yetziat Mitzrayim
Several of the works in the second half of the book explore the finer details within the debate between Moshe and Pharaoh, providing meaning and background to the seemingly superfluous details noted alongside the biblical description of the plagues.
‘Rupture And Reconstruction’ Reconstructed
Rupture was intended as a description of the development of Ashkenazic, mitnagdic post-migration Orthodoxy. It was never actually about 1990s American Modern Orthodoxy and its anxieties, or about how to resolve them.
Title: The Borders of Inequality: Where Wealth and Poverty Collide
Behind "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.
What Does It Mean To Be Home?
Is she Israeli? Is she American? She feels out of place in the country of her birth, and unable to return to the homeland of her choosing.
A Story Of Jerusalem And Rome
It is often a challenge when the story told by Chazal is at odds with modern scholarship.
Paskening In The Digital Age
Sometimes I felt like I wanted to just know the halacha. But this is a book about emerging technologies, and what it offers are points to consider.
Leaving Egypt With A Family Of Goats, Lots Of History, And A Graphic Novel
Pesach reminds us of the liberation from Egypt, but also commands us to live through its events as if we were there. Every generation and every Jew, no matter which community they belong to, can, in their own way, relate to the story of Pesach.
The Soul Of Art
Title: Art of Revelation – A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible
Yoram Raanan and Meira Raanan
Art is supremely the language of the spirit. Few...
English Jewry In The 1200s
Besides the occasional massacres in which English Jews were actually killed, the author provides detailed accounts of the "punishments" levied against Jews for simply being Jewish...
How Important Is A Book’s Introduction?
Once the reader understands the framing of this book, it is a gold mine.
Two Holocaust Memoirs, Two Perspectives
"The three of us survived the war only because of my father's ingenuity and guts."
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.
YU And OU Celebrate Publication Of Chumash Mesoras HaRav
The Rav explains that Hashem is everyone's rebbe. Whenever someone learns, he is learning with Hashem.
Detection At Its Finest
A book is successful if you care about the characters and you’re caught up in the plot. This book meets those and many other qualifications for a gripping mystery and a wonderful read!
From The Depths
Their memoirs capture these experiences through a Torah-faith point of view.
Roundup of Jewish Children’s Books
Here are some of the latest and greatest in the world of Jewish books that will keep your brood entranced and enchanted.
Title: Alone in Africa
Alone in Africa, by Avigail Sharer, is an original adventure story about three siblings named Nesanel, Penina and Chezky Feiner, who are, well, alone in Africa. Except they aren't entirely alone – they have animals and two battling African tribes to keep them company.
Deal With The Challenges Of Antisemitism
Once the general parameters of antisemitism have been defined for the purposes of the book, the authors of the articles are free to discuss contemporary antisemitism in the three remaining sections.
Title: Rav HaKolel, A Biography Of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef
In the 1880s, a substantial immigration of Jews poured into New York from all parts of Europe, Russia, and Galicia. They were eager to escape the hard life of poverty and lack of peace back home, but the reality in America was not as they had expected it to be. It was hard to find work; it was a struggle for mere existence.
Lessons From Someone Who Has Seen It All
In his immigrant social circles, he hadn’t even known anyone who went to college, as finishing high school was considered the highest possible achievement for his peers.
Books To Curl Up With
This time of year, there is little pleasure greater than cozying up with a good book. The problem is, of course, that there is a lot to do.
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 Fascinating History Of An Unknown Jewish Community
The first Jews of Eastern Europe were of a distinct variety who spoke a Judeo-Slavic dialect known to scholars as Knaanic. This dialect was later rendered obsolete by the arrival German/Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazim, whose language became somewhat influenced by Knaanic, but also essentially caused it to fizzle out
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