Reviewing: “Prepare My Prayer—Recipes to Awaken the Soul,” by Rabbi Dov Singer. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 292 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592645374. Talking in shul is a very

Reviewing: “To This Very Day: Fundamental Questions in Bible Study,” By Rav Amnon Bazak. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 492 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592645152. In a

Reviewing: “Takanas Hashavim,” by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis. Ohel Rabbeinu Yonoson Ublima Foundation. Often people will (mistakenly) say something to the effect that there are

Reviewing: “The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus,” edited by David Arnovitz; English translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Koren Publishers Jerusalem; 2020.

Reviewing: “Maimonides’ Grand Epistle to the Scholars of Lunel: Ideology and Rhetoric,” by Charles Sheer. Academic Studies Press; 2019. Paperback. 100 pages. English. ISBN-13: 978-1618119612

“I Kings: Torn in Two,” By Rabbi Alex Israel. Koren Publishers Jerusalem. 2013. Maggid Studies in Tanakh Series. English. Hardcover. 350 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1613290040. “II

Reviewing: “Explorations Expanded: Sefer Bereishit,” by Rabbi Ari Kahn. Kodesh Press. 2019. Paperback. 351 pages. English. ISBN-13: 978-1947857292. Reviewing: “The Jewish Ethic of Personal Responsibility: Volume

Book review: “The Emperors and the Jews,” by Ari Lieberman. Mosaica Press. 2019. Hardcover. 354 pages. English. ISBN-13: 978-1946351746. Trivia question: How many foreign rulers

Sukkot is called zman simchatenu. There were several books I was able to read that certainly added to that simcha. The first of my reads

Reviewing: “Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik on the Experience of Prayer,” by Dov Schwartz. Academic Studies Press. 2019. English. Paperback. 498 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1618117199. The fact

There are a number of books I have been meaning to review for a while, but they seem to get put at the bottom of