Jewish Book Reviews

Forever with Me is a moving memoir depicting the searing pain of a teenager who watches her mother suffer from a terminal illness and...

How much would you give for the privilege of getting to know a tzaddik? For the sum of $10 you can become acquainted with...

It’s a known fact that many kids need help learning social skills. In fact, it’s quite normal. Kids are not born knowing the appropriate...

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,...

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...

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

A Review by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is a little known fact, but the Midrash tells us that, according...

Get ready for your kids to erupt into gales of giggles with our newest children’s book! Meet the one and only Doda Golda! She...

She couldn’t understand what was happening to her. She had just given birth to a healthy baby, and everything was doing great. She had...

The Ben Ish Hai: The Life and Times of Hacham Yosef Haim (Israel Bookshop) explores the remarkable life of one of the most extraordinary...

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...

Reviewed by Chaim Schwarz Dusty, hot and antiquated, Haret-al-Yahud, the Jewish Quarter of Damascus, Syria, has been a haven for Jews since their expulsion from...

A Legend of Greatness: The Life and Times of Hacham Haim Yosef David Azoulay, is the first comprehensive, English-language, full-length biography focused exclusively on...

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

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....

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...

After many years, a brand new volume in the famous Igros Moshe series by Hagon Harav Moshe Feinstein zt"l, has been released. This volume...

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

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

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

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....

The Jewish book market being what it is today, baruch Hashem, there is a plethora of reading material out there for adults, and so...

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

Danny: “With more than two hours to go before sundown this past Friday, I logged onto the Web. When I glanced up from the screen,...

Political cartoonist Yony needs no introduction. His illustrations have enhanced thousands of pages of books, newspapers, and magazines for years. And when you have...

As Sefer Vayikra begins, we bring to the attention of our readers the appearance of a classic sefer, translated into English and now complete...

Pesach is a Yom Tov especially geared to children. There’s the Mah Nishtanah for them to recite, the afikoman for them to hide, treats...

Great news for all of you Halachically Speaking fans out there! The anxiously-awaited Halachically Speaking 2, by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Lebovits, has finally been...

By: Yochanan Preiser I recently picked up the new book, The Secrets of the Stars, by Rabbi Ari Storch. It offered me an entirely new...

By BrachaGoykadosh On Friday night, I began reading Chaya Sara Schlussel’sThe Punch Line, expecting to smile.  The cover after all, promised that Schlussel’s collection of...

When Rachel Stein, popular children’s author and Yated columnist, began learning bei’ur tefillah in depth with a friend, she marveled at the layers of...

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...

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...

‘’READING REVIEWS’’ Mrs. Ruchie Schwartz  ‘The foundation of all righteousness and the root of the perfect service of Hashem is that a person should clearly know...