Jewish Book Reviews

Is it Elul Yet? Sometimes you just feel you need some kind of book or text to put you in the right frame of mind....

Are you looking for the perfect Yom Tov gift? A book is always appreciated! Or do you need some great reading for yourself for...

Learn, Live Teach: The Story of a Life by Esther Leah Avner Book review by C. B. Gavant  Imagine six seminary girls in Gateshead of the 1950s....

With her unique style of writing—a rare combination of carefully crafted sentences, depth, and humor—popular Binah and Hamodia columnist Batya Ruddell has found a...

Set against the backdrop of the early nineteen hundreds, This is America! is a magnificently written, well-researched historical novel. It literally makes you feel as if...

Excerpted from A Time to Laugh, A Time to Listen by Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland, a novel collection of over forty original and inspirational articles,...

You want to buy a can of soda, but all the customers in the supermarket checkout line have full carts. May you cut the...

The Megillos have been packed away for next year, while the loads of mishloach manos and other chametz (and the nosh) are quickly being...

Over the past seventy years the Jewish nation has seen a truly remarkable development, the multitudes of Jews returning to their roots. Our leaders...

You read her work in the Binah magazine all the time. Now read her very first book! Since its first appearance on the bookstore shelves,...

When Kobi Levy, start reporter for one of the largest secular newspapers in Israel, took on the assignment of doing an expose on an...

It is the deepest desire of Jewish parents worldwide: that our children have good middos. Yet, as the million-dollar question begs, how do we...

Did you know that the reason the honor of kvatterin is given to a husband and wife is based on the idea that bris...

Divided Attention is a book that has it all—an intriguing, suspenseful, not-your-run-of-the-mill type of plot, realistic characters, fast-paced, entertaining reading, and a satisfying ending...

Rabbi Juravel is well known for his endearing tapes on the parshah and other subjects, as well as his informative and educational books published...

A groundbreaking new sefer in time for Daf Yomi Eiruvin! Years of research, hundreds of color, computer-generated 3D images, and a knack for accuracy and...

“Mommy, look! That girl is in a wheelchair!” As parents, few comments of our kids make us cringe the way announcements such as the above...

Thirty days before a Yom Tov. The time when most frum people begin preparing in earnest for the approaching holiday, whether by cooking, cleaning,...

It’s the classic case: You had a flight to catch for an extremely important visit or appointment somewhere, and you were running late—and missed...

Dealing with the details of religious ritual observance is not often the subject of public discussion by prominent politicians. Senator Joseph Lieberman, who moves...

There are different types of novels out there. Some are the roller-coaster, spine-tingling ones, the ones with cloak-and-dagger material and guns and spies and...

With so many novels nowadays being about so many of the same topics, Mirror Image stands out with its unique, refreshingly different plot. Take,...

An interview with Chava Goldman, author of “How to Succeed on Any Diet: A Jewish and Friendly Guide to Dieting and Exercise”, (distributed in the...

by A. Ben-Chaim  Rabbi Avigdor Miller didn’t just teach Chovos Halevavos. He lived and breathed that classic mussar sefer for decades. Shaar Habechina—the second chapter of...

It all began when Rabbi Aron Rabin, talented and popular youth group director in Miami Beach, FL, realized that he had a problem...

Bitachon. Complete trust in Hashem. That much-desired trait that we all yearn to have. It is the key to shalom bayis, parnassah, and to...

The Rebbe, the biography of the Satmar Rebbe by Rabbi Dovid Meisels, first appeared in stores at the end of December. It quickly sold...

Some books just have the ability to speak to you. They get you to think, to reflect on a certain message, and even to...

You don’t have to be a Sephardic Jew to appreciate Yehuda Azoulay’s latest gem—as with all of this noted author’s beautiful works! A Legend...