General Jewish Resources
Rabbis Favorite Websites (by topic)
Starting Your Home Jewish Library
  • Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals, by George Robinson
  • Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice, by Wayne Dosick
  • To Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking, by Harold Kushner
  • Embracing Judaism, by Simcha Kling,
  • The Tapestry of Jewish Time, by Nina Beth Cardin,
  • Living a Jewish Life - Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today’s Families, by Anita Diamont and Howard Cooper
  • The Jewish Holidays, by Michael Strassfeld
  • Basic Judaism, by Milton Steinberg
  • Jews, God, and History, by Max I. Dimont
  • Jewish Quarterly
  • Jewish Book Council
  • Association of Jewish Book Publishers (AJBP)
  • Jewish Virtual Library
Rabbis Favorite Jewish Books
  • Tales of Love and Darkness (autobiography), by Amos Oz (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • Open, Closed, Open (poetry), by Yehuda Amichai (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • The Yeshiva, by Chaim Grade (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • The Horizontal Society, by Jose Fauer (Rabbi Alan Yuter)
  • People of the Book, by Moshe Halbertalm (Rabbi Alan Yuter)
Rabbis Favorite Secular Books
  • Middlemarch, by George Eliot (Rabbis Elizabeth Bolton and Steven Schwartz)
  • Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • Blood Meridian, by Cormac Mcarthy (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • The New Testament, by Raymond Edward Brown (Rabbi Alan Yuter)
  • The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels (Rabbi Alan Yuter)
Rabbis Favorite Films
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • A Few Good Men (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • Contact (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • The Lord of the Rings-Fellowship of the Ring (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
  • Casablanca (Rabbi Steven Schwartz)
Rabbis Favorite Recipes
  • Homemade Vegetarian Chili
  • Moosewood Banana Bread
Rabbis Favorite Places in the World to Visit
  • Yellowknife/Great Slave Lake - Canadian territories (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • The Negev desert in Israel (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • The Canadian Rockies (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
  • The Salzkammergut in Austria (Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton)
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