Novels & Short Stories

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  1. Inspiring stories retold by a master teacher Learn More
  2. Two yeshivah students found themselves in the outback area of Queensland, Australia. They had been part of a team of young men who drove the Chabad mitzvah mobiles for weeks in the summer to outlying areas. Evidently they had taken a wrong turn and ended up far away from their intended destination. A man, surprised to see yeshivah students in this remote area, asked: "What are two nice Jewish boys doing here?" ''Actually,'' one of them replied, "we were asking ourselves the same question. But now that we have met you, we know exactly why we're here. Excuse me, are you Jewish? Would you like to put on teftllin?"

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    From Anchorage, Alaska, to Surfers Paradise, Australia; from Novosibirsk, Siberia, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; from Kinshasa, Congo, to Beijing, China, and everywhere in between, you'll find Chabad representatives. In candid-camera snapshots of how these men, women, and children live their lives of mission, Malka Touger tells more than a hundred stories which enable us to appreciate the unseen hand of Divine Providence, how the hearts of Jews are alive and seek to identify with their heritage, and how each one of us, if we just set ourselves to the task, can bring about miracles in microcosm. Learn More

  3. Stories told by the Lubavitcher Rebbe with teachings in Avodas Hashem Learn More
  4. A new collection of stories retold by the best-selling author of Touched by a Story Learn More
  5. A schoolteacher on the brink of marriage learns, firsthand, what a broken heart feels like.

    An Orthodox judge sends a small-time criminal to prison ... and finds his life turned upside-down by sudden tragedy.

    Five years later, both Sara Muller and Judge Daniel Newman have managed to put heartbreak behind them and are busy leading useful — if lonely — lives. Then evil strikes again, in the form of one man’s unquenchable thirst for revenge. He is determined to get it and nothing will stand in his way. No means are too horrifying for him to contemplate. Daniel’s own children become pawns in a terrifying game whose rules he cannot begin to understand. And -- though he does not know it yet — only Sara Muller holds the key to the stalker’s identity.

    As a judge, Daniel has heard and seen evil. As a teacher, Sara has worked with the victims of tragedy. But neither has ever been a target. Now, their faith and their wits are tested as never before.

    The Judge is the newest spine-tingler by Libby Lazewnik, author of Secret Accounts and many other acclaimed novels. This remarkable book provides edge-of-your-seat suspense while plumbing the depths of the human heart -- an unbeatable combination. Learn More

  6. Don Yosef Nasi
    The years following the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal were frightening and turbulent. The Inquisition had poisoned the atmosphere. Storm, starvation, and disease claimed countless lives. Even in countries that took Jews in, anti-Semitism was barely contained, and the helpless, most penniless refugees were held in disdain, if not contempt.

    In Spain and Portugal, there were courageous Marranos who were determined not to give in to the "inevitable." Some because rich and famous. A few used their prosperity to escape to places where - eventually - they could practice their Judaism, not only proudly, but openly.

    The most prominent among them was Dona Gracia Nasi, the woman who became the outstanding Jewess of the century, and perhaps in a thousand years. She walked with kings and sultans. She aided her fellow Marranos and built new Torah communities. And she groomed her nephew and future son-in-law for a lifetime of service to his people. Don Yosef Nasi became the most powerful man in Turkey, but was always the patron of his people in Europe and Asai, and, with Dona Graci, established the first Jewish controlled community in Eretz Yisrael since the Exile.

    This historical novel is an exciting story of intrigue and escape, of courage and cowardice, of battle and blockade, of loyalty and treachery. The escape from Portugal and the establishment of a new life under the sword of the Inquisition. Brave Dona Gracia is denounced as a Jew, and intrepid Don Yosef mobilizes the Turkish fleet to save her. The jealous courtiers of the Sultan conspire to undermine the influence - and life - of the hated Jew. The Jewish settlement in Tiberias is established thanks to Dona Gracia and Don Yosef.

    This is an unforgettable and stirring book, one whose echoes will remain long after its last page is turned. Learn More

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