Books

kaddish.com Nathan Englander Alfdred A. Knopf The simplest response to being taught the story of Jacob and Esau as a child is to wonder which of them...

Collected Plays of Chaim Potok Edited with an introduction by Rena Potok; contributions by David Bassuk, Carol Rocamora and Aaron Posner Adam Kadmon Books Fans of Chaim...

Steven Jay Rubin was shaving one morning when he started wondering about Anne Frank’s cat. Rubin, a Los Angeles-based film producer and author, often listens...

Brooklyn-born Levi Brennan was working for a Wall Street credit card processing firm about a decade ago when one of the clients he was...

Author Dr. Hallee Adelman will tell you her life has literally gone from Z to A. Her maiden name was Zaslovsky, and, now that she...

Appetites & Vices Felicia Grossman Carina Press On sale Feb. 18 Author Felicia Grossman, a Jewish woman from Delaware, says in her “About the Author” page that her...

Six Thousand Miles to Home Kim Dana Kupperman Legacy Edition Books Six Thousand Miles to Home is the fictionalized and captivating account of a real Jewish family’s...

Julian H. Preisler admits he loves synagogue architecture, having possibly photographed more in our region than anyone else. “I’m just fascinated by the diversity in...

Faygie Holt and Ellen Roteman, two journalists and former Simon Rockower Award-winning Jewish Exponent writers, released new Jewish chapter books in November. Holt published Layla’s...

The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns and the Science of Jewish Thinking Andrew Newberg and Rabbi David Halpern Turner Publishing The Rabbi’s Brain is an eminently odd book,...