It's been less than a week since Two Cents Plain: A Brooklyn Boyhood has been available in stores and on the web, but things are happening... very exciting.



Take a look at some interviews, articles and a new review.



http://www.thejewishweek.com/videos/martin_lemelman_his_jewish_boyhood_brooklyn

–– video interview poster on Jewish Week…



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More reviews for The Lonely Tree by Yael Politis have come in:

'The Lonely Tree, movingly written by rising author Yael Politis, is an important contribution to Jewish and Zionist literature.' Jewish Tribune Canada

‘…Yael Politis is an excellent author who really knows how to make a story readable, this is a book that everyone should read at some point.’ Curious Book Fans website

‘A sweeping tale set against the Jewsish…

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Henry Abramovitch's The First Father Abraham, which uses a psychological case study approach to study the akeda, is now available to read entirely free online at the website Libertary.com. The book examines "the grossest violation of the human order, a father about to murder his son" through such themes as the psychology of birth order and the ethics of survival. The author has written a new introduction for… Continue

Hi All,
The Two Cents Plain website is finally live. If you get a chance, take a peek. There's still a little bit of work to do on it, but I think you'll have some fun anyway. Come browse Teddy's Candy Store. See artifacts, preliminary drawings...
B'Shalom,
Martin

Today was Tisha b'Av, the "black fast" as opposed to Yom Kippur's "white fast." One of three Jewish "holidays" that come from the Talmud, not the Torah [the other two are Purim and Hanuka], the origins of this mournful observance have roots in a far murkier past than the Talmud. According to Taanit 30b, " Five events befell our fathers on the Seventeenth of Tammuz and five on Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av). On the Seventeenth of Tammuz, the Tablets were broken, the Daily Offering ceased, the City… Continue