B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / accountant / Contemporary / dating / First-Person / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York CityNo Comments
Orthodox Jew Adina Reid isn’t having much luck in the dating department. Whether tracking mud into a guy’s car or tripping over her feet, she can’t seem to get past a second date. As if that’s not bad enough, she accidentally spills grape soda on her coworker, Yehoshua Markus. Horrified, ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewscats / children's fiction / childrens-books / holiday setting / Jewish-faith / Passover / picture booksNo Comments
Celebrated author Lesléa Newman unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship. Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wonders, ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / deafness / disabled character / fake relationship / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Passover4 Comments
This Passover is starting to feel like the ten plagues might be coming back to haunt them before the weekend is over…one hilarious misstep after the next. Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her “well meaning” family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsHanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York City / novella / teacher heroine / widowerNo Comments
Benjamin Cohen, widowed father of six-year-old Jessie, is doing his best to hold it together through order and routine. The last thing he needs is his matchmaker mother to set him up with her next door neighbor, no matter how attractive she is. Rachel Schaecter’s dream of becoming a foster ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / novella / second chance at loveNo Comments
Roslyn Stein is convinced that her boyfriend Ben Jaffe will never marry. Ben’s parents’ contentious divorce left him with emotional scars. But Ben doesn’t want to lose Roslyn. So he asks her to give him the eight nights of Hanukkah, to prove he really does love her and deserves another ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsdoctor hero / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / novella / nurse / War / Military / World War II3 Comments
1944 Ardennes, WWII Lt. Ruth Mencher has always secretly admired Capt. Joseph Klein, but it takes the lighting of a Hanukkah candle to uncover the spark of mutual attraction. Each night awakens a new facet of their relationship, but as the Battle of the Bulge begins, the approaching Nazi forces ... more >
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