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Nonfiction Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen Henry Bial
Nonfiction The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country From the Religious Right Michael Lerner
Nonfiction Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy Samuel C. Heilman
Recommended Reading May is… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn honor of May celebrations, we’ve created a few reading lists for you…Jewish American Heritage MonthFind the… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 1, 2012
Nonfiction Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness Bernard Avishai
Children’s Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.
Nonfiction Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York Robin Shulman