Rabbi Zalman Goldstein’s Going Kosher in 30 Days! garnered first place in the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Awards sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association.

The month-long tutorial, which educates readers about the ins and outs of keeping kosher, was picked by judges as the best entry in the Los Angeles ceremony’s religion category.

Goldstein, a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid, is the author of many other easy-to-understand treatments of Jewish life, including The Shabbat Table Companion and The Passover Seder Table Companion. …