The Rabbi’s Bookshelf

Book recommendations from Rabbi Grushcow

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Rabbi’s recommendations
Books mentioned in Rabbi Grushcow’s sermons
Interfaith recommendations
Parent-Child Book Club
Books for Children
Books written by our Members
Books about Israel

Rabbi’s recommendations

The Mossad Messiah: a novel of Israel

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories

Marc Chagall

Abraham: The World’s First (but Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer

Emma Lazarus

Hillel: If Not Now, When?

Maimonides

Putting God Second: How To Save Religion From Itself

When Breath Becomes Air

How Can I Help?: A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist

Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

The Mathematician’s Shiva: A Novel

Invisible Lines of Connection

Jewish Spiritual Parenting: Wisdom, Activities, Rituals and Prayers for Raising Children with Spiritual Balance and Emotional

Every Day, Holy Day: 365 Days Of Teachings And Practices From The Jewish Tradition Of Mussar

The Wanting: A Novel

Dovekeepers

The Source: A Novel

The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Traditions To Raise Self-reliant Children

The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

Books mentioned by Rabbi Grushcow

A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales	All These Vows–Kol Nidre	Hillel: If Not Now, When?
The End Of Your Life Book Club	Moral Grandeur And Spiritual Audacity: Essays	Invisible Lines of Connection
Divorce is a Mitzvah: Finding Holiness When Your Marriage Dies	One Native Life	Medicine Walk
The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence	Stir: My Broken Brain And The Meals That Brought Me Home

Parent-Child Book Club

Anything But Typical

Red Wolf

My Basmati Bat Mitzvah

Gracefully Grayson

Books for Kids

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Jeremy’s Dreidel(Rev.Ed.) At the dreidel-making workshop, Jeremy’s friends think he’s moulding a secret code on his clay dreidel. But he?s really making a special gift for his father, who is blind.

Hanukkah!

Hanukkah Is Coming!

Ziz and the Hanukkah Miracle,The

Jodie’s Hanukkah Dig(Gr.K-3)

Sammy Spider?s First Taste Of Hanukkah: A Cookbook

The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate
After someone throws a rock through Isaac Schnitzer’s window, the people of Billings, Montana, join together to fight a series of hate crimes.