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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Nonfiction The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity Micah Goodman, Eylon Levy (trans.)
Interview It’s a Whole Spiel: A Conversation Between Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman Katherine Locke, Laura Silverman September 9, 2019
Nonfiction Modern Conservative Judaism: Evolving Thought and Practice Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, fwd.
Essay Three Sets of Dishes Ellen Umansky is the author of The Fortunate Ones, a novel released last week about the fate of a Chaim Soutine painting left behind in Vienna. Ellen will be… Ellen Umansky February 20, 2017
Nonfiction The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds.
Nonfiction The Chameleon in the Closet: A Conservative Jewish Mother Reaches Out to Her Orthodox Sons BJ Rosenfeld
Nonfiction The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, eds.; Arnold M. Eisen, fwd.
Nonfiction A Place in the Tent: Intermarriage and Conservative Judaism Mark Bloom; Ted Feldman; Gordon Freeman; Stuart Kelman; Harry Manhoff; Mimi Weisel; Rose Levinson; Glenn Massarano
Nonfiction The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement Michael R. Cohen
Essay What We Believe On Monday, Darin Strauss wrote about wrestling with faith.I’ve done an informal poll — I admit, it’s very informal — among Jews I know: What do we believe?… Darin Strauss August 24, 2011
