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Alter Shapiro

This down-to-earth and insightful work of original thoughts on the Torah by Rabbi Alter Shapiro is a tribute to his illustrious father — Reb Chaim Shapiro, zt"l — author of the famed Go, My Son and Once Upon a Shtetl. Also included are Reb Chaim Shap...

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Miriam Zakon

Selma Meir left the pristine cleanliness and order of life in Germany to become the head nurse at Sha'arei Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, braving epidemic, filth, and war. Schvester Selma, as she was affectionately known, stayed on from what was meant ...

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Bruria Schwab

When Mrs. Bruria Chechik Schwab discovered the hidden memoirs of her father, the legendary mechanech par excellence, Rabbi Moshe Chechik, zt”l, she discovered more than the miraculous history of a real-life hero and his hidden treasure – she discover...

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Bracha Perel Toporowich

You've never met someone quite like Reb Yechiel Mechel Rabinowicz. He could decipher a page of Talmud or an intricate blueprint. He built buildings and Torah institutions. The unique and multi-faceted personality of this scholar, inventor, activist, ...

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Felice Poupko

From the tranquility of a rural Bavarian childhood to the winding streets of Jerusalem’s Old Yishuv to the sun-drenched boulevards of Havana, Cuba, this is a deeply moving story of courage, hope, and rescue, as well as an important historical documen...

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Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

Through the icy Siberian winters, one man’s life burned with unimaginable radiance. Told by best-selling author, renowned lecturer and radio commentator Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, this is the true story of Reb Mottel Lifshitz, who dared to defy the powe...

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Shaul Rosenblatt

How do we see the light through the toughest challenges of life? This uplifting book, inspired by the author's personal experiences with his late wife's struggle with a terminal illness, is a powerful lesson in coping with painful challenges and dev...

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Avi Shafran

What's it like to be an American Indian and a Jew? Meet Ovadyah Gomes, descendant of Mohawk and Narragansett Indians, and join him and his wife Ariella on their amazing and heartwarming spiritual quest from total assimilation to the world of Orthodo...

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Maurice Lowinger

In the darkness of the Budapest ghetto, Maurice ("Mor") Lowinger, as one of the heads of Budapest's soup kitchen, brought sustenance to thousands of his brethren. With immense creativity and great faith in Heaven, Mor succeeded in his awesome respons...

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Yehudis Bogatz

Shevi Wittow Gura was a giant — in spirit, in generosity, in courage —always finding joy in simply being alive, always with a smile and a kind word for others, even though her life was full of excruciating pain. This is the story of her struggle to l...

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Rivkah L. Jacobs

A child injured in a car accident. A father’s final illness. A pregnancy doctors say is doomed. In the course of a few years, Rivkah Jacobs faces three tremendously difficult life events. But instead of collapsing under the weight of her burdens a...

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Translated and adapted by Judah Lifschitz

Out of the blazing fires of the Nazi inferno came a Torah leader of extraordinary intellect, boundless devotion to the Almighty and His people, and, most of all, superhuman mesirus nefesh, self-sacrifice. Marked for greatness from youth, it was in th...

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Malka Adler and
Yona T. Yacobowicz

After years of battling a debilitating physical illness and waiting for a child, Yona Yacobowicz - founder of the famous women's musical group Tofa’ah - finally gave birth to a baby boy, Yisroel Meir. But could this child survive? In The Miracle Next...

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Miriam Zakon

Dr. Judith Grunfeld was a fascinating woman living in fascinating times. As a young German Jew she traveled to a primitive Polish town to meet an obscure seamstress by the name of Sarah Schenirer. Together, these two very different women founded the ...

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Rivky Weinstock

A grandfather. A granddaughter. An unforgettable tale of survival. This captivating and unbelievable story, told by a Holocaust survivor and written by his granddaughter, captures the drama of his heroic escape from Nazi death camps and from twice...

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