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The convenient, comprehensive, popular one-volume English/ Hebrew, Hebrew/English Dictionary
Now updated for the first time in thirty-five years
Thousands of new words in science, technology, and culture

-Tables of English irregular verbs
-Tables of the Hebrew noun and all forms of the Hebrew verb

Jerry Izenberg has been a sports reporter and a columnist at the New Jersey Star-Ledger for over seventy years.

One of only two daily newspaper columnists to have covered the first 53 Super Bowls, Izenberg also covered 54 consecutive Kentucky Derbies and the last five Triple Crown-winning horses. And no one has covered more of Muhammad Ali's fights than he, dating back to the 1960 Olympics. A recipient of the Red Smith Award for sportswriting, he has been named the New Jersey Sportswriter of the Year five times. He is an inductee in 17 Halls of Fame, including the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

In his memoir, Baseball, Nazis & Nedick's Hot Dogs: Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark, the nonagenarian author looks back on his first two formative decades of life. Somehow, during a fraught period of antisemitism, Depression, and World War, Izenberg finds love, community, and purpose. Today, he lives Henderson, Nevada, with his wife Aileen. He continues to contribute columns to the Star Ledger and is working on several books.

During the many years of publishing the Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud, students of Gemara asked for a smaller, lighter version of the full-size text. We listened and responded with the Daf Yomi edition. Every word, indeed every feature, of the full-size edition is here in a compact 7" x 10" size - and printed on lighter, thinner paper.

 

Like the full-size edition, the Daf Yomi edition of the Schottenstein Talmud Bavli is available in 73 volumes. The Daf Yomi edition is popular with travelers as well as with Torah students on a budget. Besides its appealing size, it's also a great value-priced at about 1/3 less than the full-size edition. In Talmud classes and congregations throughout the English speaking world, the Daf Yomi edition of the Talmud Bavli has become a very popular resource.

 

Torah learning is everywhere today - "when you are at home or on the road." So, in addition to your full-size Gemara at home, you can have a "travel Gemara" for times when you need something more portable.

“Be a blessing, my child, be a blessing.” They were words whispered from a father to his child as she confronted the horrors of the Holocaust. That child would grow up to be the world’s beloved Rebbetzin, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.

Be a Blessing shows us how she chose to “be a blessing” in the darkest of times and most horrific of places. In Bergen-Belsen. In a Swiss boarding school, as a penniless refugee, separated from her family. In a hospital bed in San Diego.

Written as she recovered from a difficult and painful accident, Be A Blessing sings out with faith, hope, even in times of despair.

In these pages we will hear Rebbetzin Jungreis speaking in Madison Square Garden, in a U.S. Airforce base, in a hospital room where she lies in terrible pain. We will hear her speaking to individuals looking for help or comfort. We will hear her speaking to herself, a young Holocaust survivor. And, most importantly, we will hear her speaking to each one of us, our concerns, our hopes and fears and questions.

From the Rebbetzin we will gain tips for a better marriage and for being better parents. We will learn how to find the mission our Creator has chosen for each individual, and how to make room for Hashem in our hearts. And we will discover how to take our personal mission, use it to “be a blessing” and convert darkness to rays of light.

In Jewish tradition, before parents journey to the next world, they bless their children. In this, the Rebbetzin’s final book before her passing, she has blessed all of us – because she felt all of G-d’s people were her children –with the greatest blessing of all: To be a blessing.

You hold in your hands a hidden gem ― a sefer whose insights a young Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbachwould eagerly hear directly from their author. He was so enthralled that he implored Rav Salant to put these powerful lessons into print.

Be’er Yosef is a treasure trove of unique insights on the parashah. The simplest questions, often left unaddressed by earlier authorities, are given the most profound yet intuitive answers. Rav Yosef Tzvi Salant provides a unique combination of his mastery of Midrash with his mesorah from the mussar giant Rav Yitzchak Blazer, the primary student of Rav Yisroel Salanter.

Now available in English for the first time, Rav Salant’s teachings can finally be enjoyed by a greater and varied audience.

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family's past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for Eva, the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate in New York long ago, became a journey of discovery when Gordon found her in Tel Aviv. There, she heard Eva's stories of survival during the Holocaust, especially in Nazi-occupied Budapest. Eventually, Gordon would retrace Eva's steps in Budapest and visit ancestral towns in Ukraine to bear witness to the slaughter of entire populations of Jews. Amid remnants of loss and destruction in the small town where her grandfather was born, Gordon also uncovered details of her family's world before relatives immigrated to America. Gordon's journey into her past provided the deep sense of connection and belonging she needed as an adult child of divorce and abuse. Gaining insight about her family's history, Gordon reconciles issues of betrayal and loyalty, and finally finds her place in Judaism. Part memoir, part detective story, Because of Eva is an intimate tale of one woman's history within the epic sweep of world events in the twentieth century.

Learn How to Really Love Your Fellow Jew!

In his brilliant essay on ahavas Yisrael, the Beis HaLevi, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, beautifully explains the mitzvah of loving your fellow Jew. Who does the mitzvah apply to? When does it apply? What do I need to do to fulfill it properly? The Beis HaLevi also provides incentives to help us do the mitzvah in the best possible way.

Translated and elucidated by Rabbi David Sutton, author of ArtScroll’s bestselling Beis HaLevi on Bitachon, Beis Halevi on Ahavas Yisrael contains wonderful insights, uplifting stories, and in-depth appendices, as well as a special section of touching anecdotes about gedolim from a range of generations and communities.

A comprehensive and compact dictionary from the son of the father of modern Hebrew.

Designed expressly for the widest possible variety of interests and professions--for students, teachers, travelers, and home and office libraries--this dictionary is derived from the eight-volume Dictionary and Thesaurus of the Hebrew Language by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.

In this dictionary you will find over 30,000 vocabulary entries, alphabetically arranged, a thorough and accessible explanation of grammar, including tables of irregular verbs, keys to proper pronunciation, abbreviations, up-to-date technical terms, examples of idiomatic usage, tables of numerals, weights, measures and currency, and much more.

Every woman dreams of a good life, a happy home, meaningful relationships, joyous celebrations … but do we know the way to make those blessings materialize? How often do we feel our deepest desires bottled up in our hearts, hoping that God hears our silent yearning? There is a better way to draw down blessings for us and for all Israel. When you want something, pray for it! This precious volume of prayers, in English and Hebrew, drawn from the words of Rav Noson's Likutey Tefilot, gives expression to the hopes and dreams of each Jewish woman. Organized by topic, here are prayers to sing with, to cry over, to believe in and to soar with. Use them to discover parts of yourself you never knew existed, and to clarify the values you hold dear. Above all, let them open your heart to receive the greatest blessing: a new closeness to the Provider of all.

Apisdorf has done it again. The long-awaited sequel to the Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit is here. Whether this is your third Rosh Hashanah or your thirtieth, Beyond Survival will take you on a journey to new views of insight and inspiration. This book does more than just explain concepts, it guides you along a path of personal discovery and spiritual growth. In addition to eye-opening essays, Beyond Survival is also a companion to the prayer book. It contains a complete English-Hebrew text of the Amidah (not including Mussaf) along with insights, reflections, and explanations that unlock the rich, inner world of the prayers. Shimon Apisdorf has helped thousands survive the holidays - now it's time to fly!

A collection of Jewish humor from every source imaginable: literature, jokes, children's books, magazines, comics, newspapers and others, from Woody Allen to Israel Zangwill.

 

 

Commentary on the weekly Parsha by the author of Bivavi Mishkan Evneh Bilvavi On The Parsha is an English adaptation of the Motzei Shabbos drashot on the weekly parshah given by the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh and Da Et Atzmecha series. Those who are seeking greater closeness to Hashem, Torah study, and character improvement, will find in it a treasury of Torah wisdom full of depth, as well as practice advice, in all areas of spiritual improvement. The Rav has delivered thousands of drashot on a countless array of topics pertaining to spiritual improvement and avodat Hashem. In these drashot, you will analyze the weekly parshah as never before. Each parshah has a timely lesson with subtle applications to our own soul. You will gain knowledge of important, fundamental concepts in a Torah Jew's life, in a way that is both deep and simple.