New Jewish Books
In 1992 Hebrew University’s Magnes Press produced a limited edition Zohar. It was a facsimile edition containing Gershom Scholem’s annotations. The publisher describes the artifact with these words: […] at the end of each...
Arditti, Michael: The Enemy of the Good Deutsch, Nathaniel: The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World Elior, Rachel: Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore Elior, Rachel:...
Last summer the Rorschach Theatre produced a show in NewYork titled “This Storm Is What We Call Progress.” It was written by Jason Grote. The plot on the theatre’s page reads: A young man...
Hot Indie News‘ review of Heather Mendel‘s new book, “Dancing in the Footsteps of Eve: Retrieving the Healing Gift of the Sacred Feminine for the Human Family through Myth and Mysticism”, devotes one paragraph...
Lisa Erickson, the woman who runs the “Mommy Mystic: women’s spirituality in the 21st century” blog ran a series of 5 entries last summer, titled “5 religions, 5 women mystics.” The Jewish installment was...
Nextbook.org relaunched its publication(s) in June. Instead of publishing the Nextbook Reader paper, It now has an online magazine called Tablet. All the content of past Nextbook Reader issues have been moved to the...
Last June Jay Michaelson wrote up a quick overview of recently published books on Kabbalah for Forward. The nominal occasion for the article was that it has been ten years that Madonna got interested...
September 2, i.e. Elul 13, was Hakham Yosef Chaim‘s 100th Yahrtzeit. He is better known as Ben Ish Chai after his most popular book. It “is a collection of homilies he gave over two...
Bibliofreak points out in his review of Umberto Eco‘s The Search for the Perfect Language in August: Chapter one discusses Bible stories, and chapter two gets into Kabbalah and Gematria. People interested in Gematria...
Excerpt from a Forward article about a Rabbi Chaim Yosef Sharabi, and Israeli psychic who offers amulets and predictions. Rabbi Chaim then set a laptop-sized book spine-down on the desk and instructed my relative to...
