Sarah Goldstein’s fourth book, Now You Are Here: Navigating Nursing Home Care for a Loved One, was specifically written for those caring for a loved one residing in a nursing home.
No wonder the authors refer to “a divided nation” in their title, and one might wonder how a nation so internally fragmented can possibly hold together.
The images are of people from a variety of professions, national origins, and streams within Judaism.
It is amazing how Ouzan included so many chaplains who fostered respect for Judaism in this great volume.
The troubling story of Michael Laudor leaves many unanswered questions, including the central one: How do we respect the autonomy and decision-making of a person with serious mental illness?
Leslie Turnberg’s biography An Unreasonable Man: Pinchas Rutenberg, the Russian Revolutionary Who Electrified Palestine is probably the first book in English about this intensely private man.
Each story is a slice of life of an Israeli woman whose reality was altered by immigration to the United States.
To say that Bummer is an unusual book is to say no more than the truth, but it is also immensely readable, very interesting and, above all, extremely informative.
Avraham Frank’s timely message, now available in translation, is that “A nation without faith can’t endure, and faith without a nation is a return to exile.”
Reclaiming Dignity: A Guide to Tzniut for Men and Women grew from a small project in memory of editor Bracha Poliakoff’s mother into an important contribution to the Jewish world.
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