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Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.95

We are in danger, says Rabbi Sacks, of forgetting what Judaism’s place is within the global project of humankind. The Jewish people exist for a reason, and it is not for themselves alone. They must recommit themselves to their foundational purpose: to the task of creating a just world in which...

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Members of the Tribe

Written by Zev Chafets

Format: eBook, 259 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $11.99

Chafets travels through Jewish America and introduces a range of characters that he meets on his journey, showing all sides of the Jewish community in America. Read more >

Why Are Jews Liberals?

Written by Norman Podhoretz

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $16.00

From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.

During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative book he sets out to...

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Keep Your Wives Away from Them
Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires
Edited by Miryam Kabakov

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $16.95

***WINNER, 2011 Golden Crown Literary Award - Anthology

Reconciling queerness with religion has always been an enormous challenge. When the religion is Orthodox Judaism, the task is even more daunting. This anthology takes on that challenge by giving voice to genderqueer Jewish women who were once silenced—and effectively rendered invisible—by... Read more >

Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.95

One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in... Read more >

Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $11.99

One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in... Read more >

Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home
A New Vision of Israel and Palestine
Written by Kim Chernin

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $14.95

The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. In this thoughtful collection of essays, Kim Chernin suggests that the Zionist struggle has left... Read more >

The House of Secrets
The Hidden World of the Mikveh
Written by Varda Polak Sahm

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Price: $28.95

For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath—the mikveh—is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women’s practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent the mikveh, often for surprising personal reasons. Roused by her own immersion experience, for years Varda Polak-Sahm, a secular...

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The House of Secrets
The Hidden World of the Mikveh
Written by Varda Polak Sahm

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Price: $26.95

For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath—the mikveh—is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women’s practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent the mikveh, often for surprising personal reasons. Roused by her own immersion experience, for years Varda Polak-Sahm, a secular...

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The Lost Years
Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006
Written by Charles Enderlin
Translated by Suzanne Verderber

Format: Hardcover, 378 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2007
Price: $25.95

"Enderlin meticulously chronicles the political and diplomatic impasses...revealing the history of this former film noir through interviews with the men who were its lead actors." —Le Monde

From Ariel Sharon's ascent to power in February 2001 to the Israel-Lebanon conflict in July 2006, the Middle East has seen the most murderous years... Read more >

Walled

Written by Sylvain Cypel

Format: Trade Paperback, 534 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2007
Price: $17.95

An award-winning journalist explores the culture of denial in Israeli and Palestinian societies–and its lethal consequences.

Walled examines the contemporary state of mind of Israel's citizens, tracing the history of the State of Israel back to the Jewish national movement and the beginnings of Zionism. Sylvain Cypel offers a lucid analysis of... Read more >

Striking Back
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
Written by Aaron J. Klein

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.00

“This is a thriller, a page-turner, a probing look into the inner workings of the assassination squads that Israel mobilized after the Munich massacre.”
–David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Arab and Jew

“Gratitude is due to Mr. Klein for his painstaking . . . book, the best one could possibly hope... Read more >

Striking Back
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
Written by Aaron J. Klein

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99

The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response–a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.
1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million... Read more >

Unchosen
The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Written by Hella Winston

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $16.00

Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells... Read more >

Unchosen
The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Written by Hella Winston

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $17.00

Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was excited to be meeting members of the highly insular Satmar sect. While several Jewish journalists and scholars have produced largely admiring books describing the Lubavitch way... Read more >

The Rebbe's Army
Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
Written by Sue Fishkoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00

“Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first... Read more >

Breaking Ranks

Written by Ronit Chacham

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2003
Price: $15.00

In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The "Refuseniks" describe their risky moral decision against the background of what is perhaps the most volatile conflict in the world today: the Israeli-Palestinian... Read more >

The Journey Home
Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition
Written by Lawrence A. Hoffman

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2003
Price: $16.00

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is widely recognized as a leader in bringing spiritual innovation into modern Jewish life and worship. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study, he explores the Jewish way of being in the world-the Jewish relationship to God and to questions of human purpose that lie just below... Read more >