New Jewish Books
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of the English language edition of Yoram Bilu’s Bahat prize winning book, The Saints’ Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers and Holy Men in Israel’s Periphery. The astonishing...
THE THOUGHT OF R. JOSEPH ALBO Esoteric Writing in the Late Middle Ages, By Dror Ehrlich The book is in Hebrew, published by Bar-Ilan University Press This book is the first comprehensive, methodological analysis...
Gershom Scholem‘s essay on “The Curious History of the Six-Pointed Star: How the “Magen David” Became the Jewish Symbol” was turned into a book by Avraham Shapira, titled “Magen David – History of a...
The JTA reported a study of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It found that “younger Jews are more spiritually inclined than their forbears” and that “Orthodox Jews and Jews who have fewer...
A new video by the Jewish Agency‘s Jewish Partnership Online focuses on the value of “Jewish Soul Renewal” through the activity of the Tzahar – Palm Beach Partnership, with a special focus on the...
The always excellent Seforim blog‘s latest entry analyzes a letter that was presented by Chaim Bloch in 1923 as from the Maharal himself on the Golem and its creation. Through literary comparison and other...
Ha-Sodot (Secrets) is a film from 2007 that has plenty of connection to Kabbalah. Here si one description from IMDB: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive...
The fourth weekly installment of Jay Michaelson‘s introductory series to kabbalah at Huffingtonpost has been posted a few days ago. It’s subtitle is a bit misleading: “Spiritual practice”. It is not entirely correct as...
We created a new “store” on Amazon.com’s aStore site. Copied all the books from this site therre and organized by the same sections. The new store can be reached at: http://astore.amazon.com/porgaborcom Enjoy
Marc Nichanian, the author of “Our Place in al-Andalus: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters” (2002) has a new book out about genocide: “The Historiographic Perversion”. The Armenian Reporter summarizes Nichanian’s thesis this...
