Tikkun Ha’am / Repairing Our People: Reimagining Liberal Judaism in America
Publication Date: 01/16/2024
Contemporary Judaism is facing unprecedented challenges. Today’s Jews have the opportunity—and the obligation—to reclaim a Jewish vocabulary of sanctity, activism, and the desire to stand apart from today’s world. Repairing Our People is a cry from the heart by one of American Judaism’s most prolific voices. His message: the role…
A Gift of Many Colors: Keren Keshet―The Rainbow Foundation, 1999-2019
Publication Date: 12/12/2023
Financier Zalman Bernstein left the bulk of his charitable wealth to the discretion of his wife, Mem Bernstein, and his longtime friend and confidante, Arthur Fried. This is the history of how they used that legacy to create a unique Jewish high school in San Francisco, publish books on prominent…
Covenant and Legacy: The Story of the Avi Chai Foundation, 1984-2019
Publication Date: 11/28/2023
This is the story of the charitable legacy of Zalman Bernstein, who created a unique Jewish foundation that for 35 years advanced Jewish education, culture, and continuity in the United States, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. When the billionaire financier Sanford C. Bernstein experienced a religious awakening in his…
The Passover Protocols
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
A blood libel murder in Jerusalem right before Passover, coinciding with the arrival of three American white supremacists in Israel, sets off a hunt for an antisemitic plot. The investigation leads Intelligence Agent Maya Rimon into the dark shadows of the Holocaust and on the trail of the conspiratorial forgery…
Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People
Publication Date: 10/24/2023
An unprecedented, large-scale collection of timely and provocative essays from a wide range of Jewish thought leaders that aims to start a global conversation among Jews about their future as a people. “...a mind-expanding look at how Judaism can survive and thrive in the 21st century.” –Publishers Weekly Star Review…
Islamism vs. the West: 35 Years of Geopolitical Struggle
Publication Date: 10/24/2023
A leading analyst of the Middle East takes on key issues, such as the Islamic surge, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and conspiracy theories. The war on terror, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab-Israeli conflict—again and again in the twenty-first century, crises coming out of the Middle East confront and puzzle…
Adam Unrehearsed
Publication Date: 09/19/2023
In the vein of The Chosen, Catcher in the Rye, and The Kite Runner comes Adam Unrehearsed, a “hilarious, deeply moving, coming-of-age comedy” (Yossi Klein Halevi). From the moment he’s mugged on the subway home from Bat Day at Yankee Stadium, things go wrong for twelve-year-old Adam Miller. He is…
Babylon: A Novel of Jewish Captivity
Publication Date: 09/12/2023
A multi-generational biblical saga of captivity, romance, faith, and redemption, set against the Judean exile in Babylon. Everything changes for Sarah the day Nebuchadnezzar’s army storms Jerusalem. In an instant, her peaceful life on the farm is ripped away: her city sacked, her temple desecrated, her people enslaved. Marched across…
The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center
Publication Date: 07/11/2023
From his deep involvement in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s to his almost forty years at the head of the New Republic, Martin Peretz traces his personal history alongside those of the cultural and political centers—Harvard, Wall Street, Washington—in which he was a key player for decades.…
Solimeos
Publication Date: 06/13/2023
Fleeing post-World War II Germany, an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new, occult-obsessed, German Reich…but love, ambition, and vengeance interfere. In the waning days of World War II, fourteen-year-old Axel, his family, and their servants are…