A Synagogue Just Like Home
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A new rabbi’s efforts to fix up his aging synagogue are a labor of love—and a comedy of errors—until his congregants fondly pool their talents in this lighthearted celebration of community.
Rabbi Ruben loves his synagogue. But he doesn’t love the creaking floorboards, leaking sink, or drafty windows. Surely, he thinks, he can fix it up so it feels cared for, like a happy home! But Rabbi Ruben doesn’t know much about home repair, so when his creative fixes—challah dough plugging a drippy faucet, tablecloths blocking a window draft—make things humorously worse, it’ll take his whole congregation banding together to remind him what really makes a place feel like a happy home. Alice Blumenthal McGinty’s warm, inviting text pairs with Laurel Molk’s lively, friendly illustrations for a story about community and coming together—sharing, helping, caring.
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Random House got its name in 1927, when founders Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer said they'd publish a few books on the side "at random."
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Random House
Random House got its name in 1927, when founders Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer said they'd publish a few books on the side "at random."
- Based in
- New York, NY
- Since
- 1927
- Craft
- Children's and trade books
Nearly a century later, Random House is part of Penguin Random House, owned by Germany's Bertelsmann, and its children's list is home to Dr. Seuss. That shows up on ModernTribe's shelf: Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Hanukkah Party! and the PAW Patrol counting book Happy Hanukkah, Pups!, both from Random House Books for Young Readers. Alongside them sit Hanukkah and Jewish-values titles from the wider Penguin Random House family, including Suzy Ultman's I Like Your Chutzpah and It's a Mitzvah! board books and The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 8 Nights of Chanukah.
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- Part ofPenguin Random House (Bertelsmann)