For those who like to read, the yamim noraʾim and Sukkos provide great opportunities to do that. This is what I read over the holidays.

The term “People of the Book,” which sounds much better in Hebrew, Am HaSefer, is indeed apt. Walk into any Jewish bookstore, and new titles

Reviewing: “Unmatched: An Orthodox Jewish woman’s mystifying journey to find marriage and meaning” by Sarah Lavane. Sifria Publishing. 2022. English. Paperback. 226 pages. ISBN-13: 979-8218010324

Reviewing: “The Koren Selihot Minhag Lita” by Rabbi Jacob J Schacter. Koren Publishers Jerusalem. 2022. Hebrew and English. Hardcover. 1314 pages. ISBN-13: 978-9657766682. Saying you

Reviewing: “Between Religion and Reason,” by Dr. Ephraim Chamiel. Academic Studies Press. Part 1: 2020. ISBN-10: 1644690721. Part 2: 2021. ISBN-10: 1644695707. In 2004, several

Reviewing: “American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York” by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers. Princeton University

Reviewing: ‘Pain is a Reality, Suffering is a Choice: Grappling with Divine Justice’ by Rabbi Asher Resnick. Mosaica Press. 2022. English. Hardcover. 416 pages. ISBN-13:

Reviewing: “Studies in Halakha and Rabbinic History” by Rabbi Eitam Henkin. Maggid Books. 2022. English. Hardcover. 456 pages. ISBN: 9781592645817. I do not think I

Reviewing: ‘Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas’ by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 334 pages. ISBN-13:978-1592645527. In his brilliant weekly Thursday night shiur, Simcha

Reviewing: ‘Talmud on the Mind’ by Ethan Eisen. Kodesh Press. 2020. English. Paperback. 240 pages. ISBN-13:978-1947857490. Rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik has been quoted as saying that

Reviewing: “Cornerstones: The Bible and Jewish Ideology” by Rabbi Hayyim Angel. Kodesh Press. 2020. English. Paperback. 224 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1947857438. There’s a joke that two