Gift Books
Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews
$40.00 USD
Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews offers a tantalizing exploration of the central role of matzah and flour in Sephardic cuisine. Journey through centuries of tradition...
Totally Kosher
$37.50 USD
More than 150 fun, flavorful, and modern kosher recipes inspired by dishes from around the world—featuring quick-and-easy weekday meals, traditional recipes, and unfussy holiday dinners from the creator of the...
The Dirty Dancing Cookbook
$27.99 USD
A modern twist on traditional kosher dishes from the 1960s, recipes feature step-by-step instructions alongside stunning food and film photography. This book is designed to make meal prep feel like...
Open Judaism: A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics
$24.95 USD
In honest, engaging language Barry L. Schwartz, a practicing rabbi and writer, presents traditional, secular-humanistic, and liberal Jewish views on nine major topics—God, soul, Torah, halakhah, Jewish identity, inclusion, Israel,...
Dreaming Bigger: Jewish Leadership for Teens
$17.95 USD
Teen leaders are dreaming, planning, and raising the social consciousness of those around them. They are questioning the status quo, using technology to do good, and pushing others to do...
Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
$39.95 USD
Following the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as “the first great Jewish athlete.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. As Jewish Sports...
Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement
$29.99 USD
In our age of seemingly irreconcilable differences, argument is increasingly seen as a plague to be avoided or a contest to be won. Daniel Taub, an experienced peace negotiator and...
Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
$32.00 USD
Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish...
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
$27.99 USD
Informative and accessible, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew has a unique structure: Acho asks questions and Tishby answers them with deeply personal, historical, and political responses. This book will enable...
P Is for Pastrami: The ABCs of Jewish Food
$8.99 USD
From apples and honey all the way to zhug, this alphabet book is a delightfully delicious introduction to Jewish food. It’s perfect for board book readers with a funny bone,...
Zahav Home: Cooking for Friends & Family
$40.00 USD
Award-winning chefs and bestselling authors of the James Beard Award–winning Zahav, Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook invite you to cook the way they do at home, with 125 new recipes for simple and achievable meals....
Yiddish with Dick and Jane
$20.00 USD
In text that captures the unque rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane -- hero and...
Let My People Laugh: Greatest Jewish Jokes of All Time!
$24.99 USD
In Let My People Laugh, director, producer, and humorist Sal Litvak takes the reader on a joyous journey through the rich tapestry of Jewish humor, where wit and wisdom intertwine in the...
The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting
$18.00 USD
From Adam & Eve to Zabar’s, this humorous survey of Jewish history is the most outrageous and unreliable account of the Jewish people’s wanderings since…the Torah.A hilarious read for those...
Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Ágnes Keleti
$18.99 USD
Doing gymnastics, Ágnes Keleti feels free―until the day her coach tells her there's a new law in Hungary barring Jewish athletes from the gym. Once Germany sends soldiers into Budapest,...
Sharing Shalom
$18.99 USD
Leila loves going to Hebrew school and hearing stories of mighty kings and quick-witted queens. Being Jewish is a part of her story, and learning Hebrew connects her to her...
A Mitzvah for George Washington
$19.99 USD
Bella's father has an important role to play when President George Washington comes to visit the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island. But Bella has her own job to do―coming...
An Angel Called Truth and Other Tales from the Torah
$25.00 USD
An Angel Called Truth offers short, engaging stories related to the weekly Torah portion written for kids 10 to 13. These new midrashic tales by Rabbi Jeremy Gordon and Emma...
A Kids Book About Judaism
$19.99 USD
This is a kids’ book about Judaism. Whether you know a lot or a little about it, this is the book for you! Jewish traditions have been passed down for...
Sweet Babe! A Jewish Grandma Kvells
$17.99 USD
Look at this baby . . . what a genius! And such a shayne punim, too! From the top of baby's adorable head to the tips of their toes, there's...
Interrupted Lives: Nine Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
$10.99 USD
In some ways, Adele, Barney, Eric, Ernie, Frank, Judy, Magda, Rodi, and Ruth had little in common. They were born in different European countries and came from different family backgrounds....
Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult’s Guide to Building a Jewish Life
$21.99 USD
In Judaism we’re allowed to ask questions. We are invited to ask them. But for young people, it often feels as if no one is willing to take tough questions...
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling
$29.95 USD
JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day....
How To Raise a Jewish Child
$22.00 USD
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent—a classic parenting book that combines insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary thinking about how children learn and grow. In this...
The Little Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture: 101 People, Places, Things (and Foods) Every Jew Should Know
$13.99 USD
Jewish traditions aren't just something they sing about in Fiddler on the Roof. Explore them all with this delightful book of essential Jewish foods, philosophers, pop culture, and more. It's...
Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks
$17.00 USD
Growing older can be unsettling and surprising. (How on earth did this happen? Where did the years go?) So what better way to deal with this new stage of life...
Woven Roots: Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe
$24.95 USD
Authors Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel map the interwoven histories of the peoples of the Pale of Settlement, revealing untold stories of cooperation, shared knowledge, and mutual aid. The book...
Oy! Not Another Book of Jewish Cartoons!
$28.95 USD
Oy! Not Another Book of Jewish Cartoons!! intertwines humor with tradition, offering a fresh take on the rich tapestry of Jewish life with 86 cartoons by cartoonists including Amy Kurzweil,...
Humans of Judaism, hc
$30.00 USD
Humans of Judaism is a heartwarming collection of beautiful portraits and moving stories curated by the editor and founder of the popular social media brand @humansofjudaism. Today, millions of visitors...
What Jewish Looks Like
$19.99 USD
Too many Jews have been told: "You don't look Jewish!" It begs the question, "What does Jewish look like?" Well, there are over fifteen million Jews in the world, which means there are more than fifteen...
Let My People Go
$9.99 USD
Everyone can take part as Moses implores Pharoah to ""Let My People Go!"" This light-hearted rhyming tale can be read alone or with a cast of characters as a ""Reader's Theater."" Perfect...
My First Yiddish Word Book
$12.99 USD
Did you know that Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters but pronounced more like German? Introduce your kids to their mama loshen (mother tongue) and open the door to their...
Shabbat Shalom, Welcome Home
$9.99 USD
Introduce little ones to Shabbat with this beautiful, colorful board book. Children can see a Jewish family come together and celebrate the holiday with candles, challah, and more. Perfect for...
This is Not a Cholent
$18.99 USD
Amira loves cholent―the special stew her family eats on Shabbat. And this year, she and Nana are competing in the big cholent competition! They use their Iraqi family’s special recipe....
The Hedgehog Who Said Who Cares?
$19.99 USD
When Hedgehog builds his hut in the middle of the road, his neighbors, Rabbit and Mouse are upset that they are unable to pass. “Who cares?” says Hedgehog. But when...
You Can Come Home Again: Musings and Amusings of a Philosopher-Clergyman
$14.95 USD
You Can Come Home Again: Musings and Amusings of a Philosopher-Clergyman combines both the offbeat and the classical, the idiosyncratic and the traditional, in its exploration of the spiritual concerns...
Grandpa and Me on Tu B'Shevat
$6.95 USD
The tradition of planting on Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees, is handed down from generation to generation in this warm tale. Using a shovel “shiny and new,”...
D.I.J. - Do It Jewish: Use Your Jewish Creativity
$24.95 USD
Learn from Jewish creativity mentors & use your own Jewish creativity in areas ranging from Jewish cooking to Jewish filmmaking. Recommended ages 8-12 104 pages
Where Is Poppy?
$18.99 USD
In this heartwarming Passover story, a young Jewish child learns to work through grief with the help of family, memory, and tradition.It’s Passover time and everything seems the same, but there’s one...
Ten Purim Bears
$9.95 USD
One by one, costumed bears arrive, each taking their seat in eager anticipation of a special surprise. With playful rhymes and colorful illustrations, this charming book helps children count from...
Eve’s Garden
$17.95 USD
Eve's Garden evokes a unique time in Israel's history when the 1982 incursion into Lebanon drew the country into a complex process of redefining itself. At this critical moment Diana...
Sammy Spider’s First Tu B’Shevat
$7.95 USD
Celebrate Tu B’Shevat with everyone’s favorite spider! Spring is in the air and Sammy Spider watches as Josh Shapiro lowers the roots of a small tree into the ground. As...
Prayers of a Heretic, Poems
$14.95 USD
Prayers of a Heretic explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of existential displacement through the language of prayer and prayerful voice/s. In the first section, "Visits and Visitations,"...
Counting on Shabbat
$8.99 USD
Shabbat brings 1 table, 2 candles, and 3 braids in the challah, kittens waiting to be fed, friends knocking at the door, smiles all around, and more. Count from 1...
The Work of Ismar David, pb
$29.95 USD
Selected by Helen Brandshaft, edited by David PankowIsmar David (1910–1996), an artist of extraordinary range and ability, mastered a variety of media during the course of his long career in...
Felix Lembersky 1913-1970. Paintings and Drawings
$65.00 USD
by Alison Hilton and Yelena Lembersky Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was among the most influential and vocal artists to challenge the absolute sovereignty of Soviet Socialist Realism in the 1950s and...
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