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The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi’s Reflections on Love, Courage, and History

Publication Date: 05/09/2023

Applying Jewish values to our personal and communal lives. Ammiel Hirsch has been one of America’s leading rabbis for more than three decades. A Zionist activist who spent his formative years in Israel, Hirsch rose to prominence as the executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America and…

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The Shakespeare Haggadah: Elevate Thy Seder with the Bard of Avon (Second Folio)

Publication Date: 02/14/2023

It be the Passover Haggadah, as Shakespeare would hast writ it, hadst the idea occurred to him. Art thee a teenager? Most wondrous. How about a tweenager? Coequal better. Perhaps thou art a drossy adolescent or gamesome adult? Readeth this while the stodgy elders and fartuous children readeth the haggadot,…

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Shield of David: A History of Jewish Servicemen in America’s Armed Forces

Publication Date: 12/06/2022

Since Revolutionary times, Jews have served in the United States armed forces and fought bravely in America's wars. Jews first arrived in the New World in 1654, seeking religious freedom. Since the beginning of American nationhood, Jewish volunteers and conscripts fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, on both sides…

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The Hyena Murders

Publication Date: 11/29/2022

A murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, police corruption, and human trafficking, Israeli intelligence agent Maya Rimon tries to stop the killer before his double-edged…

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Jews And Booze: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Denial in the Jewish World

Publication Date: 11/01/2022

We Jews wrongly believe we’re immune to alcoholism and addiction—instead, individuals, families, and communities are suffering because of the stigmas surrounding addiction and recovery in the Jewish world. “Is the 12 step program suitable for Jews? In this book Michael Levin shows with learning, sensitivity and wisdom why the answer is…

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Jewish Pride

Publication Date: 10/18/2022

Michael Steinhardt left a stellar career on Wall Street and spent the next three decades launching revolutionary philanthropic programs like Birthright Israel and OneTable that offer a proud, rich future for the next generation of secular American Jews. What are the keys to a proud Jewish life? Part memoir, part…

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Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

Publication Date: 10/13/2022

Woke Antisemitism is a firsthand account from a top Jewish leader about how woke ideology shuts down discourse, corrupts Jewish values, and spawns a virulent new strain of antisemitism. “David Bernstein has written an important book which deserves to be read widely and be thoroughly discussed in our community. This…

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The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto

Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Part memoir, part manifesto, The Wrong Kind of Jew catalogues the Jewish population of the Middle East and North Africa, their history, and the voices who fail to meet the expectations of both the Jewish and non-Jewish world—yet are better for it. When people ask what I’m passionate about, Judaism, likely,…

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In the Path of Abraham: How Donald Trump Made Peace in the Middle East–and How to Stop Joe Biden from Unmaking It

Publication Date: 06/21/2022

An insider’s perspective on how the Abraham Accords were concluded and why they offer a way forward to a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East—if only they are not abandoned by the Biden Administration. This book charts the remarkable journey of Jason D. Greenblatt, who spent…

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A Light From Zion: Why Israeli Innovation Matters to the World

Publication Date: 05/31/2022

A Light from Zion tells the remarkable story behind Israel’s most fascinating innovations, profiling cutting-edge companies in fields ranging from agriculture to environment, health to disaster preparedness, and water to enterprise. How did Israel rise in just a few decades from a tiny, struggling country with a third-world economy to…

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