Literature / Novels

Rabbi Noach Heller was very happy being the rabbi of the remote Canadian village of Port Iceberg. It gave him the opportunity to learn and teach Torah while providing his family with a simple but adequate livelihood. But then everything changed, and the Heller...

A Practical Guide for Everyday and Year-Round Music surrounds us, shapes our moods, and accompanies our celebrations and daily routines. But what does halachah say about the music we listen to, play, or sing? For the first time, "Music in Halachah" gathers all relevant...

Nashim Tzidkaniyos Behind the Scenes. Rebbetzin Elyashiv said, “I’m not sacrificing. This is my greatest zechus!” Numerous stories have been told about our treasured gedolim. Less is known about their wives. Who were the incredible women who enabled their husbands to become gedolei and...

A Thought-Provoking Collection of True and Fictional Stories Can you feel the desperation of Ratze’le, who thinks she’s engaged, hopes she’s engaged…but cannot really be sure? How about the conflict of Malky’s dilemma, when she is tasked with marketing a brand that is at...

A Novel Anna couldn’t breathe. She couldn’t think. “Devorah…” she croaked. “Devorah, I never meant… I never thought…” She broke off, unable to continue. Suddenly, she got up and fled from the room. She ran all the way down the hall, nearly tripping on...

A Novel They say life isn’t black-and-white. And that people aren’t either.  But what about when it seems like they are? Or when we’re forced to choose between black and white, good and evil, light and darkness? The choices seem so clear, yet so hard at...

A NovelRav Elimelech Mintzer, an elderly Yerushalmi Yid, passes away and his Jerusalem apartment becomes the center of a family feud. The nonprofit set up from the proceeds of its sale seems like the perfect solution. Until it becomes a trap… A car accident...

“The Rogatchover was a unique Torah Gadol. There was no one like him, not in his generation or in previous generations.” Rav Yosef Rosen zt”l (1858-1936), one of the most prominent Rabbanim of the previous generation, was known as “The Rogatchover Gaon”. Rav in...

The Story of Hillel Blumenfeld Ever wondered what it's like for a kid living with cancer? Meet Hillel Blumenfeld, an ordinary kid just like you, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was six years old and went on to live an...

A Novel The sky darkened, the hours passed, and the clearing grew quieter and quieter. A rustle sounded from between the trees. “Mr. K.?” Four of the guides stepped out into the clearing. “We’ve searched the forest, all the trails. I’m afraid that the...

A Novel Ma parks in the driveway but doesn’t get out. I wait in the passenger seat, not meeting her eyes.I feel…yuck. Like, I feel untrustworthy, even though I know I totally am trustworthy.“Ma,” I say. “I didn’t mean to end up there.”Ma coughs....

Based on a True Story Six million tragedies. And one more.  The tragedy of a life lived in the shadow of pain - the life of a survivor and the lives of the second and third generations.  In the turmoil and terror that was...

A Novel In wartime, a spy often holds the key that determines the fate of the battles. And that could be just one lone spy. Europe 5703/1943 At one point during the most terrible of wars, a group of British, American, Russian, and German...

A Novel Racheli Weisman is a small, non-descript woman, living on the periphery of life. She cannot be the heroine of this book. Her husband Reuven is no hero either, just a young, introverted avreich who has no idea whether the name he bears...

A Novel Tatty lives at home—until one day, he doesn’t. Their wonderful Tatty who fills their home with love, and  music from the songs he composes, is suddenly a wooden voice on the other end of the line. A predictable call each afternoon, but a...

A Fiction Collection Whose fault is it? Gabi wants to reconnect with someone from her past — against her husband’s wishes.Nava’s new stepmother is ruining her childhood home.Sharon’s son needs her all the time — and he’s a grown adult. A magician, a taxi...

A Novel She has everything… yet she’s missing so much.   Gitty is born with a silver spoon in her mouth. As the cherished only daughter of an affluent businessman, Gitty has everything she could possibly want. Yet her father’s remarriage to a woman so different...

Inspiring Tales of Tzaddikim to Start Your Week Motza’ei Shabbos.  That exalted time of the week when we escort the Shabbos Queen, as we would accompany a human king or queen when they depart from our city. We sit down to a special meal,...

Nine-year-old Libby fries herself a sunny-side-up egg for dinner — and suddenly finds herself in a strange and totally mixed-up world. Maybe eating it was a big mistake. Eggs aren’t supposed to be purple! In this new world there are adults with gold eyes,...

This anger. This anger. It’s making her heart thump so hard that her body aches, and her face burns. Why did her mother not fight for her life? For her child? If she, Bilhah, were a mother, she would never have succumbed to illness...