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Children’s A Never-Ending Tale: Illustrated Parables of the Ba’al Shem Tov and His Disciples Gadi Pollack; Gadi Pollack, illus;Yitzchok Kornblau, trans.
Nonfiction Tanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom: Selections Annotated and Explained Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Nonfiction Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up The Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn Ayala Fader
Nonfiction A Heart Afire: Stories and Teaching of the Early Hasidic Masters Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles- Yepez; Arthur Green, fwd.
Essay Joshua Braff Visits 770 Earlier this week, Joshua Braff blogged about chasing girls and falling in love at Jewish day school. He has been blogging all week for the… Joshua Braff July 16, 2010
Essay The Seven Roads to Hell (or: Dante’s Inferno adapted for Chassidic Jews) Goldie Goldbloom is the author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, a novel about Italian prisoners of war in Australia during World War II. She will be… Goldie Goldbloom March 8, 2010
Recommended Reading Brooklyn and its Not-so-famous Mitzvah Girls Posted by Libi AdlerJust picked up this book from our stacks called Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala… Libi Adler September 23, 2009