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Shul Going
Resource / JUL 2019
Covering 2500 years, here are the impressions of synagogue worshipers and visitors, Jews and non-Jews, told in their own words, from Jeremiah to George Washington, Liszt, and Yossele Rosenblatt,... read more » -
The Forgotten Sage
Cascade / MAY 2019
Just after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., there lived a poor and ugly nail-maker who was also, for a time, the leading rabbi of his generation. His name was Joshua ben Hananiah, and... read more » -
The Hasidic Moses
Pickwick / FEB 2019
In The Hasidic Moses, Aryeh Wineman invites readers to join him on a journey through various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hasidic texts that interpret the life of Moses. Such texts... read more » -
The Heartbeat of the Prophetic
Wipf and Stock / SEP 2017
In volume one of this multi-volume series, Marc Ellis explores the essence of the prophetic by intertwining the context of ordinary life and the explosive reality of Jewish identity, the Holocaust... read more » -
The Jewish New Year Festival
Wipf and Stock / AUG 2016
"This study has its origin in a twenty-year-old interest in Sigmund Mowinckel's theory of an annual new year Coronation Feast of Jehovah in Israel. The first outcome of this interest was a volume... read more » -
Tomorrow's God
Wipf and Stock / SEP 2019
What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and modern science? To answer this question, Robert Goldman invites the reader on a carefully guided intellectual journey spanning centuries of... read more » -
Torah Told Different
Resource / AUG 2016
What Dorothy discovered in Oz and Alice discovered in Wonderland you'll discover here: a parallel reality where a third temple rose and fell in antiquity, women were ordained in the fifth century... read more » -
Truth Springs from the Earth
Pickwick / APR 2018
Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787–1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century. His search for truth and battles against falsehood and... read more » -
Two Jews, Three Opinions
Resource / MAR 2019
Two Jews, Three Opinions examines a unique educational movement that began in 1980 when eight school leaders met to create RAVSAK: the Jewish Community Day School Network, an association of... read more » -
When Judaism Meets Science
Wipf and Stock / APR 2019
This book seeks to confront the challenge that science presents to the traditional pillars of Judaism. It identifies and analyzes a wide variety of issues, including some contemporary sacred... read more »