A romance that has stood the test of time, Jacob Dinezon’s touching, traditional novel was originally published in 1891. Recently translated from the Yiddish into contemporary English by Jane Peppler, Hershele: A Jewish Love Story... Read More

"When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors" focuses on a serious problem by presenting meaningful solutions. At a time when books about conservation often and understandably focus on challenges and failures, Beth Pratt-Bergstrom’s "When... Read More

Abstract and wild, it’s occasionally difficult to tell what you’re coloring until, voila, a funky image appears. In designs related to Jewish spirituality, the thick brushstrokes make for beautiful designs. Read More

Viva the camera as a weapon against those who seek to alter history. Indeed, memory and truth are happily captured in a photo. For nearly fifty years, on hundreds of assignment for Life and other magazines, Ted Polumbaum traveled the... Read More

This examination of a near plane crash shows that while people may fall, true heroes always work to rise again. Emilio Corsetti III explores how quickly real-life heroes can be recast as villains, in "Scapegoat", which follows a pilot... Read More

It’s Not Like I Knew Her shares the important and oft-neglected history of lesbian bars in twentieth-century America. Pat Spears’s It’s Not Like I Knew Her is a vivid account of a young lesbian living in the deep South from the... Read More

This is a living theological text that invites personal experiences into the exploration of divinity. From pioneering feminist theologians Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow comes a vibrant new work of embodied theology, "Goddess and God in... Read More