Libi Astaire, renowned author of the jewish ebook novel, Terra Incognita, and several other fictional works, never dreamed the life she is living, nor the life she portrays in her books that she gets to share with some of her favorite characters. As a child growing up in Kansas with an affection for Shakespeare and Chekhov,

  Since the mid 1970’s, Rabbi Kalman Packouz has devoted a substantial amount of time and energy to preventing intermarriage including writing How to Prevent an Intermarriage.  He also founded one of the first Jewish Computer Dating Services in St. Louis in 1980.  People across the globe seek his advice on dealing with intermarriage situations,

  When I began my ba’alat teshuva journey almost twenty years ago, I had much to learn about keeping Shabbos, making Pesach, and getting a command of the laws of kashrus. The rules of tznius (Jewish modesty) were also right up there in the top ten list of internal and external transformations I needed to

Penina Taylor is an Orthodox Jew living in Israel with her husband, parents and four children.  She’s a bubbe to a grandson from one of two older children who have married, and she is your quintessential Torah loving, G-d loving, Shabbos loving Jew. Sounds like an ordinary Jew so far, but Penina is anything but

Rabbi Seltzer is a collector of great Jewish stories. “People call me up with their stories,” he explains. “They track me down through the Hamodia office in New York or look me up on the Internet. I put my e-mail address in my books as well so people can contact me if they want. In the

When I was a child, I remember reading for hours, escaping from the tumultuous landscape of adolescence into favorite books and authors who offered me a reprieve from everyday difficulties in life. As I navigated the usual teenage drama in a secular home, it was to my writing journal that I turned for therapy and