Chaya Benady: 5 books

Two bachelors face life-altering decisions as Thanksgiving approaches. Recently divorced Jewish lawyer Hezekiah Cohen journeys from Israel to his brother’s community in Maryland for a vacation in late November in 2014, unaware that his newly found freedom is already in jeopardy. So is his sanity...

Struggling with bachelorhood once again, Jewish lawyer and stunt pilot Yigal Cohen craves any semblance of normalcy he can find in life. It almost happens… until a 23 year-old visit to a fertility center in Boston with his first wife resurrects in a diabolical plot unraveled. Yigal is shocked when...

When a retired nuclear physicist and schizophrenic Jewish mother makes up her mind that the remaining seven of her ten children have to be married pronto, a comedy of errors unfolds. Several are bull riders, cowboys on a ranch whose eyes are on the rodeo and not a wedding. Shulamit Cohen, the mother,...

Surrounded by strangers yet always alone, Israeli Jew Rivka Weinstein has a secret hidden in plain sight: an Auschwitz survivor’s bracelet. The Holocaust and her grandmother are ever present in her mind as she navigates life in Baltimore, Maryland as an interior decorator with cynicism and a stark...

Jewish lawyer Yigal Cohen is retired from the Israel Air Force and living in Baltimore; he has no idea how much life will change when beautiful opera writer Shira arrives on the scene with her pilot son Dovid and his best friend Simcha. Yigal’s sidekick Gershon Bennington and he are the only two...