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אבל כפי שמוכיחים השידוכים שמציעים לה, כחוזרת בתשובה מעמדה בשרשרת המזון נמוך מאוד. גבר כמו יעקב — עילוי, תלמיד חכם, שקדן, מוערך, בעל ייחוס — כלל לא בא בחשבון. כאשר לאה מקבלת על עצמה שליחות של חסד, לסייע בניהול משק הבית שלו לאחר מות אשתו, היא לא מצפה שדווקא בדירה המוזנחת של האלמן שבור הלב, המלאה ביגונם של יתומים אומללים, מסתתר המענה לכמיהותיה. לו משפחתו והקהילה רק ירשו...

California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fiancé, fast track career, when suddenly, without warning, everything tragically implodes. After years fruitlessly searching for love, marriage, and children, she decides to seek spirituality and meaning far outside the parameters of modern life in the insular, ultraorthodox enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn. There, fate brings her to the dysfunctional home of newly-widowed Jacob, a devout Torah scholar, whose life is also in turmoil, and whose small children ache for the kindness of a womanly touch.

La vie réglée d'une des filles Reich, famille juive ultra-orthodoxe de Jérusalem, bascule lorsque la brigade des mœurs, qui sévit clandestinement dans son quartier, la soupçonne d'être une femme adultère (en hébreu sotah). Prête à tout pour ne pas déshonorer sa famille, elle est contrainte de s'exiler. Dans le monde vertigineux de New York, ses convictions seront mises à l'épreuve. Comment redonner un sens à sa vie ? Ce roman, inspiré d'une histoire vraie, nous fait pénétrer au cœur d'une communauté qui vit au rythme de rites ancestraux.

Taking over from her father and grandfather as the head of the Survivor’s Campaign, an organization whose purpose is to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, Milia Gottstein has dedicated her life to making sure the voices of Holocaust victims will never be silenced. It is an overwhelming and heartbreaking mission that has often usurped her time and energy being a wife to busy surgeon Julius, and a mother and grandmother. But now, just as she is finally ready to pass on her work to others, an unexpected phone call suddenly explodes all she thought she knew about her present and her future.

From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved yeshiva to work in the city, and Leah confronts the often agonizing restrictions imposed by religious laws governing even the most intimate moments of their married lives. Adding to their difficulties is the hostility of some in the community who continue to view Leah as a dangerous interloper, questioning her sincerity and adherence to religious laws and spreading outrageous rumors.

When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know... Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of the successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a well-known and respected accountant and is in the middle of planning her daughter Kayla's wedding. Kayla, too, wakes up that morning with the world in the palm of her hand....

Tra le strade di Gerusalemme una donna lotta per la libertà. Figlia di un facoltoso imprenditore ebreo, Batsheva Ha-Levi è nata negli Stati Uniti ed è cresciuta tra gli agi e le opportunità di cui può disporre una ricca ragazza americana. Bellissima e dotata di una grande curiosità intellettuale, ama studiare, progetta di iscriversi all'università e, come tutte le sue coetanee, sogna il grande amore.