An unforgettable novel that captures the power of longing, loss, and love, The Time Keepers transports us from 1979 suburban New York to war-torn Vietnam, revealing that sometimes the most unexpected friendships […]
Friday Night Shabbat with Food, Fun, and Friends! This heartwarming story of a little girl’s bond with her great-grandma, who tells the silliest, most magical stories, celebrates four generations of […]
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately wanted were impossibly opposed. Tormented by her attraction to women and trapped in a loveless arranged marriage, she found herself unable to conform to her religious upbringing, and soon she […]
In conversation with Shelley Sackett, member of the Boston Theater Critics Association, freelance journalist, divorce mediator, and former editor of Jewish Journal.Carole King’s extraordinary career has defined American popular music for more than half a century. Born in New York City in 1942, Carole shaped the soundtrack of 1960s teen culture with such iconic songs as […]
In conversation with Talya Sokoll.In this thrilling paranormal romance debut steeped in folklore—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York's monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are, all of them, lost forever.Clara loves rules. Rules are what have kept her and […]
In conversation with Cat Mazur-Jefferies.The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left Ukraine when Minnie was a toddler, is a stranger. She sleeps on a mattress on the kitchen floor. She understands nothing at school. […]
Spotlighting the years during WWII when Henri Matisse and his family defiantly refused to evacuate Nazi-occupied France, this groundbreaking book illuminates the previously untold history of their passionate roles in the Resistance and the prodigious, revolutionary work the artist produced in the face of fascism, violence, and hate. Drawing on intimate letters and a multitude […]
