Saturday, July 16, 2011

New Book Release: From Washington Avenue to Washington Street

From Washington Avenue to Washington Street by Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

From Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet, respected Torah scholar, prolific author, and beloved teacher, comes a beautifully written and fascinating scholarly memoir.

Beginning with his childhood on Washington Avenue in the Bronx, he writes candidly of growing up in a post-World War II world where Lithuanian Torah scholars were transplanted to the soil of twentieth-century America, of the ideological clashes between Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and the modern world, and of his personal encounters with dozens of well-known Jewish personalities – including his rebbe, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

From the world of Yeshiva University, to aliyah to Israel, to becoming a key player in teaching Torah in the refusenik Russian community, Rabbi Rakeffet writes his well-researched memoirs with candor, tremendous insight, and a great deal of
humor. With the cancellation of the security clause, he is able to narrate the fascinating inside story of the covert emissaries sent behind the Iron Curtain.

New Book Release: My Prayer, Vol. 1

My Prayer, Vol. 1 by Nissan Mindel

A new dimension to the daily prayers opens up with this modern commentary that has become a classic. Drawing upon a wide range of sources from Maimonides to the Chasidic masters, the author explains the deeper meanings of the morning, afternoon and evening prayers, the Grace After Meals, and the prayer before going to bed.

The Siddur, compiled by our Prophets and Sages, is both a tool with which we communicate our thoughts and feelings towards G-d and a text instructing us in the basic tenets of Judaism. When properly understood, it offers a wealth of ethical and moral teachings and sublime concepts.

New Book Release: Shaylee Druid's Staff

Shaylee Druid's Staff by Bret Jordan

As Shaylee faces the world on her own will she be able to do it and still hold on to her magic?

Without Gorm, Shaylee is lost and alone in a coastal city where her dryad magic is weak and her friends are few. It’s time to move on but can she still move on and keep her dryad powers, or will she be rooted to one spot by the ‘life oak’ that holds her magic?

New Book Release: Maaneh Lashon

Maaneh Lashon by Eliyahu Touger, trans.

The second Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi DovBer, put together a collection of prayers to be said at the gravesite of his father, the first Chabad Rebbe. The text of this Maaneh Lashon is now recited when visiting the gravesite of the righteous.

New Book Release: Getting It Done

Getting it Done: Experienced Healthcare Leaders Reveal Field-Tested Strategies for Clinical and Financial Success by Kenneth Cohn

Nothing is more valuable than experience. Overcoming a challenge builds skills, knowledge, and confidence.

This book shares the hard-earned lessons of healthcare leaders who removed roadblocks to clinical and financial excellence. Each chapter describes a real-life dilemma, distills the lessons learned, and provides step-by-step guidance. Use the strategies presented in this book to tackle similar challenges in your organization with greater speed, confidence, and success.

Physician engagement and collaboration are the common themes of these stories. Administrators, physicians, and nurses provide firsthand accounts of how they worked together to overcome obstacles and transform care for their communities.

New Book Release: And This is The Light

And This is the Light by Lea Goldberg

And This Is the Light is the first and only English edition of Israeli author Lea Goldberg's only novel, Vehu Ha Or one of the first novels published in Hebrew by a woman (1946).

It is set in the summer of 1931, when twenty-year-old Nora Krieger returns to her small-town home in Lithuania from university in Berlin ready to present her new, mature self. Instead, her time at home becomes a period of unrequited love, difficult memories and introspection, when she must accept the limits imposed on her by a class-conscious, increasingly anti-Semitic society. And This Is the Light is a lyrical coming-of-age story by one of Israel's most important writers, beautifully translated to retain the clarity and elegance of the original.

New Book Release: House of Moon Dark

House of Moon Dark by Crymsyn Hart

When a librarian meets her knight, her destiny is revealed.

Jan has spent her life among books until one night everything changes. She's dragged into the realm of fairy only to discover there are assassins after her because she is the next heir to the throne. She comes to trust her guide in the fey world, Corin.

As Jan learns more about her heritage, her affection for Corin grows. Sent on a quest to prove she is the rightful heir, Jan faces her worst enemies. Kidnapped and dragged to the enemy's castle, Jan must figure out a way to escape.

With enemies looming, Jan must look at options at hand. Her heart yearns for one man, but is it for the good of the kingdom? Who will she choose?