Books

“Readers have been ecstatic, not just about the story, but about what it represents.”

In “Mental Health, Reclaimed: A Simple Guide to Thriving Beyond Labels or Limits,” she tells her story and provides readers with a holistic roadmap for healing anxiety, depression, and overthinking.

In Samantha Ellis’s new book “Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture,” Ellis mourns the loss of numerous aspects of Iraqi Jewish culture.

A new memoir by Yehudis Fletcher describes the sexual abuse she experienced and her decision to stay in the Haredi community.

The Journal sat down with Samuelson, who also serves as a mentor for young adults, to discuss his new work and what readers can learn from it.

“Accepting my dad for who he was doesn’t mean I approve of everything he did. It’s just that I accept him for who he is.”
– Adam Nimoy

Wendy A. Horwitz, Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments (Bloomington, IN.: Red Lightening Books, 2025) pp. 234.

The author, who describes himself as a baal teshuva, makes a very strong argument in the book that eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel, is completely inseparable from the Jewish peoplehood and nationhood.

A Review of Marat Grinberg’s “Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine”