(JTA) — More than 30 years ago, a colorful little eight-legged spider named Sammy made his picture book debut and scurried into the homes of Jewish families across the country. Sammy Spider and his ...

A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...

In Ilana Kurshan’s new memoir, “Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together,” the author describes a familiar predicament: A mother with work to do is trapped in her children’s room because ...

When my children were born, I assumed teaching them Torah would be easy. After all, I have a PhD in Talmud and am married to a rabbi. I worried about plenty of things—sleep schedules, tantrums, and ...

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl discusses her new book at the opening of the Jewish Book and Arts Festival opening night. Credit: Mark Katz Already on the New York Times Best Seller list, Angela Buchdahl’s new ...