Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel Has Something for Everyone

Review By Michele Justic As well-intentioned as Chazal were to create learning opportunities within the Seder, some people can lose interest through the night. The Haggadah was compiled before many...

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  By Yochanan Gordon Since this is a book comprising the chronology of correspondence that the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ob’m, a chassidic rebbe, had with specific individuals, it would...

Author Judith Kerr Dies Weeks Before Her 96th Birthday

Kerr wrote about the Holocaust in a way children could understand Jewish and German-born British writer and illustrator Judith Kerr died on May 22, 2019 at the age of 95....

One of Manhattan’s Remaining Judaica Stores to Close

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Rabbi Hutner And The Rebbe

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Professional Organizer Morphs Her Skills Into A Book On Jewish Life

By Toby Klein Greenwald Some people give tzedakah or sponsor lectures in memory of their loved ones. The more affluent write sifrei Torah or donate rooms, or buildings, or Torah...

YU’s Nechama Price Publishes Book Exploring the Twelve Tribes

The Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women at Yeshiva University (GPATS) is proud to announce the publication of "Tribal Blueprints" by Nechama Price, director of GPATS. The...

Book Review: “Together Again” By Rabbi David M. Cohen

By 5TJT Staff I spent Shabbat reading Rabbi David Cohen’s latest book, “Together Again,” and I’m happy to report it truly transformed my Shabbat. In his book, Rabbi Cohen takes a...

Shall We Wake the President?: Disaster Management from the Oval Office

Book Review by Michele Justic In light of the current Coronavirus Crisis, 5TJT is revisiting this book review, modified from the original printed in 2017. Tevi Troy has also published...
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