Did you know that the Twin Cities is teeming with talented writers?! It’s true! And we have several collections of books by local authors for you to read, enjoy, and learn from.

Enjoy this collection of Books of Jewish Interest

• Sex, God, Christmas & Jews: Intimate Emails about Faith and Life Challenges By Gil Mann


• Tomorrow's Synagogue Today: Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life
  By Rabbi Hayim Herring
  


• New Membership & Financial Alternatives for the American Synagogue: From Traditional Dues to Fair Share to Gifts from the Heart 1st Edition
  By Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky and Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky


• Reading Genesis: Beginnings
  Edited By Beth Kissileff

Sex, God, Christmas & Jews: Intimate Emails about Faith and Life Challenges
By Gil Mann

Voices on issues such as faith, Judaism, and life challenges come through loud and clear in this inspiring collection of e-mail correspondence. Pouring out their hearts since 1997 on a special-interest site at America Online, Jews and non-Jews alike have described their workplace problems, troubled romances, holiday conflicts, religious doubts, and opinions on Jewish themes in books and movies. Gil Mann moderates the online exchange and has gathered the best and most surprising conversations and questions such as How do I handle my anger with God? 

Tomorrow's Synagogue Today: Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life
By Rabbi Hayim Herring

Tomorrow's Synagogue Today stimulates the reader to unleash the power of synagogues to exponentially influence people's Jewish lives. Herring offers creative scenarios to stretch the imagination about how more synagogues could become vibrant centers of Jewish life and how congregational leaders can begin to chart a new course toward achieving that goal.

New Membership & Financial Alternatives for the American Synagogue: From Traditional Dues to Fair Share to Gifts from the Heart 1st Edition
By Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky and Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

Open wide your mind and your community to fresh concepts of synagogue financial and spiritual success.

"[A] welcome addition.... Replete with examples of synagogues, independent minyanim and spiritual communities that have developed creative and sometimes surprising strategies ... that ameliorate what many observers believe are obstacles to recruiting and engaging Jews into their spiritual communities."

Reading Genesis: Beginnings
Edited by Beth Kissileff

Deuteronomy 32:47 says the Pentateuch should not be 'an empty matter.' This new anthology from Beth Kissileff fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. These writers use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis: A scientist of appetite on Eve's eating behavior; law professors on contracts in Genesis, and on collective punishment; an anthropologist on the nature of human strife in the Cain and Abel story; political scientists on the nature of Biblical games, Abraham's resistance, and collective action.

The highly distinguished contributors include Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Westheimer, the novelists Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Dara Horn, critics Ilan Stavans and Sander Gilman, historian Russell Jacoby, poets Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Jacqueline Osherow, and food writer Joan Nathan.