Summer reading with this month's Jewish Book Carnival. Thanks so much to the Rachak Review for hosting this month's carnival. It's always an honor to be included. 

  • In her monthly author interviews, Gila Green speaks to Barbara Stark-Nemon about her new work that deals with bilingualism, German roots, and the complexity in our writing that comes with age (Available on Amazon).
  • Ari Enkin reviews Rabbi Yehoshua Alt's new book that contains incredible insights and inspiring stories related to the weekly Parashah (Available on Amazon).
  • Gideon Katz offers a take on Micah Goodman's book that tries to mediate the Jews' relationship with Judaism (Available on Amazon).
  • Alan Jay Gerber takes a look at Rabbi Alexander Hool's book that explores the location of Mount Sinai (Available on Amazon).
  • As you might know, Erika Dreifus regularly presents a curated list of links from the world of Jewish books and writing.
  • Harry Freedman offers a book review that focuses on what we can learn from the famous British heretic Rabbi Louis Jacobs (Available on Amazon).
  • Mirta Ines Trupp was interviewed on about her new book Celestial Persuasion (Available for free on Amazon).
  • Emmanuel Navon writes about Moshe Koppel's book Judaism Straight Up and what it teaches us about the Jews' place in the culture wars (Available on Amazon).
  • Here's another blog post about a not-so-newly-published memoir about growing up white in segregated South Africa (Available on Amazon).
  • Over at the Rachack Review, we offered a review of Rabbi Yehuda Spitz's book about food in Halacha (Available on Amazon).
  • Ben Rothke give us a glance of Kodesh Press' new English translation of Ibn Ezra's Yesod Morah that combines Hebrew grammar and Medieval philosophy to reveal the deeper meaning of the Bible (Available on Amazon).
  • Adam Eli appears on The Book of Life Podcast to talk about his young adult book The New Queer Conscience. Available on Amazon. (TRIGGER WARNING: Discretion is advised.)
  • Lastly, Deborah Kalb has a conversation with Judith Pransky about her new historical novel for young adults, The Seventh Handmaiden (Available on Amazon).