Life Is Like a Library

Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books, which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. --Harry Emerson Fosdick

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Torah, Science and Stuff

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The Science Behind the Mishnah by Rabbi Joel Padowitz and Rabbi Jonathan Sassen (Mosaica Press, 2024) "attempts to explain the scient...

Monday, October 28, 2024

One Day in October

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One Day in October (Toby Press, 2024) is a book about heroes. "Like the heroes of old, like the heroes of the Bible, the stuff of st...

Monday, October 7, 2024

Heroes of October 7th

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Friday, July 12, 2024

Poetry and War

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Since October 7th, life has a been a rollercoaster in many ways. For a long time, I could not read a book, could not focus long enough to r...

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Booking in Tel Aviv (and Jaffa)

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With the good news of the rescue of four of the hostages (and the sad news that Almog Meir Jan's father died a few hours before the res...

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

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Wisdom from the Witch of Endor: Four Rules for Living by Tikva Frymer-Kensky was recently published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. Fryme...

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Life IS Like a Library

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Our blog gets its title from the quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick, and especially in these turbulent times, it is obvious that most books wer...

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Who Am I?

KSP: Good question! I'm a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter and sister. I consider myself a Torah observant Jew striving for a spiritual life. I'm a librarian with interests in Jewish children's literature, Holocaust materials, and literary fiction. I'm amalgam of diverse interests and opinions.

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