New Jewish Books
This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects...
Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in...
May You Be Written and Sealed in The Book of Life!
The yomim tovim are not merely “holidays,” i.e. times to break from the routine of daily life and celebrate some past event, group of people, or societal institution. Rather, each yom tov is distinctively, intrinsically holy, and it...
An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times Judaism, one of the world’s great spiritual traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, Arthur Green calls...
A Torah life contains within it the possibility to achieve great fulfillment and satisfaction. Each baal teshuva should feel that they have the right tools to access the full potential that lies within themselves...
Translator: Alex Skinner In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual...
The Mystery and the Majesty Elul * Rosh Hashanah * Yom Kippur * Succos Experience the Grandeur, Awe, and Inner Joy of the Season of Majesty Jews of all backgrounds, from seasoned scholars to...
Illustrator: Sarah-Jayne Mercer What is “kavod”? It’s “gee!” It’s “wow.” It’s honor, respect. It’s “whoa, holy cow!” Even the littlest acts of kindness and the smallest good deeds can be hugely important in the world.
Translator: Marion Leathers Kuntz Jean Bodin (1530–1596), renowned for his powerful intellect and breadth of knowledge, was truly a renaissance man. His works on political and legal thought set him apart as one of...
