Books

Women at the Crossroads: A Woman’s Perspective on the Weekly Torah Portion

by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha SiegelbaumWomen at the Crossroads: A Woman’s Perspective on the Weekly Torah Portion comprises 53 essays pertaining to women based on each of the weekly Torah Portions throughout the year. Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum discusses the characters and dilemmas of the women in the Torah that are relevant to the issues which women encounter today. The author ...

Wisdom’s Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba

India EdghillPublisher: PicadorFollowing Queenmaker, “her majestic debut” (People magazine), India Edghill’s Wisdom’s Daughter is a vivid and assiduously researched rendition of the Biblical tale of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. As the queen’s search for a true heir to her throne takes her to the court of the wisest man in the world, both she and the king ...

Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges and Initiatives in Contemporary Torah Education

Jeffrey Saks (editor), Susan Handelman (editor)Publisher: Urim PublicationsCo-published with ATID – the Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jerusalem, which was founded in 1998 by Rabbi Chaim Brovender and Rabbi Jeffrey Saks as a center for professional training, resource development, and policy planning for Torah education.Ben-Zoma says: Who is wise? One who learns from every person, as it states: ...

Windows To The Soul – Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim

A Psychiatrist Finds a Wealth of Ideas in the Weekly Torah Readingby Rabbi Dr. Michael BernsteinPart of the ‘Windows To The Soul’ series.Rabbi Michael Bernstein, M.D. is a practicing child psychiatrist. His is a craft that teaches its practitioners to notice things that others overlook. In this book, he turns his skills to the Chumash and, like an explorer stripping ...

Windows to the Soul – Bereshis, Shomos, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim

Rabbi Michael Bernstein M.D.Publisher: Artscroll“Delve in the Torah and continue to delve in it, for everything is in it … you can have no better portion than it.” So teaches the Talmudic sage Ben Bag Bag in Ethics of the Fathers (5:26). More easily said than done. One way to appreciate the infinite wisdom of the Torah is to see ...

Will Israel Survive?

Mitchell G. BardPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanWhile most people view the Palestinian conflict as the greatest threat to Israelâ€™s survival, it is in fact only one of the nation’s long-term concerns. Aside from terrorists seeking to destroy it, Israel must contend with tensions between religious and secular Jews, the demographic issues posed by a quickly growing Arab population, internal political divisions, and ...

Why on This Night?: A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration

The rich traditions of Passover come alive in this contemporary family haggadah. As children and adults gather at the seder dinner to remember the Israelites’ journey from slavery to freedom, this creative yet authentic haggadah will guide and engage them. It takes children beyond the Four Questions and the search for the afikoman, encouraging them to enjoy every step of ...

Whither Thou Goest – The Jewish In-Laws’ Survival Guide

Sorah ShapiroPublisher: Devora PublishingHere are successful strategies for surviving In-Laws and becoming a great In-Law. This invaluable guide explores the most common points of friction between In-Laws, how to avoid them and how to overcome them. Includes words of advice and solace from psychologists, lawyers, rabbis and those with years of In-Law experience.If you’re getting married or already married you ...

When Silence is a Sin

The Obligation to Protest and The Obligation to Settle the Entire Land of Israelby Rabbi Menachem Mendel SchneersonEdited by Shimon NeubortTranslated by: Mordechai E. Sones and Yankel KoncepolskiOne can find countless references to the inviolate right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel scattered among the scores of volumes of writings and talks by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem ...

When It’s Purim (Board Book)

By Edie Stoltz ZolkowerIllustrated by Barb BjornsonIntroduce toddlers to a beloved Purim tradition with sprightly rhyme and brightly colored illustrations depicting animals making hamantaschen. The new holiday board book will delight preschoolers and their parents and teachers with its whimsical animal illustrations.This item is sold by:Note: AllJudaica.com is owned by Rosenblum’s World of Judaica, which is one of the oldest ...

When I Lived in Modern Times

Tel Aviv-called “the white city” because of its many Bauhaus buildings-is the setting of Linda Grant’s novel about Palestine under the British Mandate. Evelyn Sert, a twenty-year-old Jewish girl from England, comes to Palestine in 1946 to be part of the great project of building a Jewish homeland. After a summer on a kibbutz, she winds up settling in Tel ...

When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son

Publisher: University of California PressSamuel Heilman’s eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses the boundary between the academic and the religious, the personal ...