Gefen Publishing House: 132 books

Lilo was a child during the Holocaust. Now that the older generation of Holocaust survivors, such as her parents, are just about gone, she and others like her are the last survivors of the Holocaust the final witnesses to the horrors that Hitler perpetrated on the Jewish people. After Lilo attended...

Memories of the Night: Studies of the Holocaust is designed for teachers, to help them bring the lessons of the Holocaust to life. First-person accounts and the literature of the Holocaust form the basis for challenging, thought-provoking reflections and a variety of interdisciplinary activities that...

Poems from Jerusalem and the Judean Desert: cortical fires and living waters.

The book is a new interpretation of the weekly torah reading. It is written from a world view deeply committed to Judaism, which places the responsibility of interpretation and identity on each one of us. The Torah is not in heaven but in the heart and mouth of you and me, to study it and to live...

Often we find it difficult to concentrate on the prayers we recite, due partly to a lack of understanding of the biblical poetry in the tefillot. This book aims to unlock the mystery of the various psalms which comprise the tefillah. The book begins with an introduction to prayer, Tehillim, and biblical...

Read and enjoy Joe Bobker s uniquely entertaining Middos Manual, a fifty-two-week guide with dozens of anecdotes from gedolim and tzadikim that explains how Middos + Morals = Menschlichkeit 101... all with a twist of humor!

Judaism today is radically different from the Judaism described and mandated in the Torah, writes Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin, a noted authority on Jewish life, history and thought. Around the time of the destruction of the Temple, rabbinic reinterpretation changed both the observance and the religious...

This engaging and informative book reveals unknown but true facts about the prophetical books of the Bible. Rabbis have avoided many questions raised by the seemingly improbable events in these volumes. This book addresses these questions and takes an open and rational look at the episodes. The...

Rabbi Simeon Schreiber is the founder, director, and lead chaplain of Visiting Chaplain Services, Inc., a not-for-profit agency providing comfort and support to anyone in spiritual or emotional distress. He currently serves as Senior Staff Chaplain at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida,...

"It slowly began to dawn on me that, like millions of other women all over the world, I had been left forever by my husband." An estimated eighty percent of married women can expect to be widowed in the future. In Surviving Widowhood, a clinical psychologist explores her experience after...

Kosher Jesus is a project of more than six years research and writing. The book seeks to offer to Jews and Christians the real story of Jesus, a wholly observant, Pharisaic Rabbi who fought Roman paganism and oppression and was killed for it. While many Christians will be confused by its assertion...

Most Jews and Christians are unaware that an extraordinary sea-change is taking place in Jewish-Christian relations. Conflict and Connection: The Jewish-Christian-Israel Triangle poses a crucial question: does this sea-change point to a fundamental and historic resolution of the centuries-old...

Available for the first time here as an ebook, sadly, after the passing of the author, Deborah Masel, we are privy to a short sequel to her first book, Soul to Soul: Writings from Dark Places. ....... A few years before my cancer diagnosis, my partner Doug and I took two of my kids to New Zealand....

Join Joe Bobker in his humorous adventure through Torah and Talmud, history and halacha, law and lore, and much more. This enjoyable volume on Jewish practice and law serves, in the author s words, as an envelope to be opened from time to time in order to learn something new. Packed with nuggets of...