Yakove Eisen is a rebel in the Jewish-American community of Brooklyn. He refuses to follow in his father's footsteps and become an Orthodox rabbi, instead he wants to study secular philosophy. Next, he falls in love with a woman who wants to be a rabbi, an occupation forbidden to Orthodox Jewish women.

When Jewish Daniel and Deena decide to marry, her father, a Hasidic scholar warns that the numbers assigned to the Hebrew letters in their names add up to the word, "pain." The couple marry and live happily until a Christian woman appears and the result is indeed pain. By the author of The Romance Reader.

Stories about a bad son, describing the pain he brings his parents. The only consolation is that it's a case of like-father-like-son, the father having been a bad boy as well. The protagonists are New York Jews. By the author of What Is It Then Between Us?

A Jewish family's chronicle, each chapter devoted to a relative. They include Rose, the matriarch who is an immigrant from Vienna, her son Ed, an academic expert on terrorism, her son Henry, an art dealer, Ed's wife, a poet and mother of four, and their daughter Miriam, a medical student.

As Ella's family considers names for her expectant sibling, she slowly warms to the idea of being a big sister.

In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.