The Ambassadors
The 2nd installment of The Ambassador, the engrossing new novel from Toby Press: Part 1; Chapter 1
The Ambassador by Yehuda Avner (z”l) and Matt Rees
Jewish Press Online presents the prologue to The Ambassador (Toby Press) by Yehuda Avner & Matt Rees
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Forty-One: War
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Forty: Locusts
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Nine: Winds of War
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Love Song for Hodel
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Who Knows But God
For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 3
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Son at Last!
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Our Glorious, Gutsy Past
For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 3
The Mother of all Chumrot
For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 2
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Six: Tevye the Builder
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
What If Rabbi Akiva Would Visit Boro Park or Bnei Brak
For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 1
For God’s Sake!?
You don't have to be 'right' – to be correct.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Five: A Thousand Tevyes
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Four: Fear No Evil
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Three: The Settlers Draw Lots
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Two: A Letter From America
One late afternoon when Tevye returned to his tent after a back-breaking day in the winery, a letter was...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-One: Hevedke the Jew
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty: Waters of Eden
What was a man, Tevye thought, that one moment he could be so filled with power and seemingly invincible force, and the next moment a motionless pile of flesh?
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Plague
The next chapter in the award winning novel.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Eight: Waiting for the Baron
When word arrived that Baron Edmond Rothschild was coming for a visit, with none other than the famous Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the colony turned into a frantic beehive of activity.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hodel Leaves Perchik
Overnight, Tevye's new cottage became a warm, haimisher home...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Six: Tevye Takes a Wife
Both of Elisha's two grown daughters were golden-skinned, beautiful, devoutly religious, and nearly half Tevye's age. The eldest daughter, Carmel, was naturally the...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Five: Tevye Cures the Muktar’s Daughter
On the arranged date, the Jews set out to survey the land which their Arab neighbors wanted to sell. The Muktar Abdulla...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Four: Morasha
The Jewish Colony Association had chosen the mountainous location not for its suitability as farmland, but because of its price. When more and more...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Three: A New Kind of Jew
All of Tevye's life, it seemed like he was always saying good-bye. Back in the old country, what now seemed like lifetimes ago, his...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Two: A Visit to the Yeshiva
Not only was Tevye's family going to be together, they were going to be rich! The Baron's gift of 5000 francs would make...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-One: Reunion
The journey from Zichron Yaacov to Jaffa took almost three days. For Tevye, it was a chance to see another part of the Land...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty: Zichron Ya’acov
With the birth of Hodel's baby, the time had come for Tevye to journey onward. Family was a matter of tantamount importance, but a Jew had an even higher allegiance to God. Had not the Almighty warned that life in the Holy Land must be lived according to the commandments of the Torah? That meant observing the laws of the Sabbath and the holidays, eating kosher food, donning tallit and tefillin, guarding the treasures of marital purity, and observing all of the six-hundred and thirteen commandments – most of which were flagrantly ignored by the young pioneers on the kibbutz.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Nineteen: A Trail of Tomatoes
The indefatigable woodchopper, Goliath, provided the posts and slats for the fence which the settlers began erecting around the kibbutz. Ben Zion adamantly opposed the idea, claiming a fence would turn the settlement into a ghetto and curtail any further expansion.