Christians And Jews—Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future
I remember a Christian colleague, who occupied an office next to mine, once asking me, "Why didn't the Jews accept Jesus as the Messiah?" I started to explain what life was like in Palestine in the first century of the Common Era—the harshness of the Roman occupation, the apocalyptic mood, and th
The Dove Flyer: A Novel
Eli Amir was 13 years old when his family left Baghdad for Israel in 1950. They spent their first seven years in Israel living in tents, and the trauma of that experience led him to devote his career to issues of immigrant absorption.
Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice (Revised Edition)
How does Reform Judaism deal with the emerging issues in bioethics? What are the requirements and rituals for conversion? Can same-sex marriages be performed by Reform rabbis? Who can play a role in a Reform congregation and in a Reform worship service?
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends
Within days of his liberation from Mauthausen, Simon Wiesenthal gathered the names of more than 150 Nazi criminals he knew must be brought to justice.
Homesick: A Novel
Eshkol Nevo’s debut novel presents a distinctively young and fresh image of contemporary Israel.
Wherever You Go: A Novel
Politics is front and center in Joan Leegant’s novel about American Jews in Israel—three strangers who arrive with different agendas and whose paths intersect in Jerusalem.
Devotion: A Memoir
As a child, Dani Shapiro loved to watch her father say the morning prayers in the den of their New Jersey home. “When my father wore the tefillin, closed his eyes, and davened, he was doing what he could to protect himself and those he loved,” she writes.
Gratitude: A Novel
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, this novel reflects the situation of Hungarian Jews, the last Jewish community in Europe left standing in 1944, through the stories of a single family.
The Frozen Rabbi
Master of Jewish magical realism Steve Stern begins his latest novel with this strange scene: Bernie Karp, an adolescent in suburban Memphis, discovers an old man frozen in a block of ice in his parents’ basement food freezer.
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
Rebecca Goldstein’s novel plunks itself into the center of the current debate between God-believers and atheists, offering a new perspective on the heated controversy.