The Dancer and the Dance by Michael Wasserman
Essays on Skepticism and the Search for Meaning Can a seeker also be a skeptic? Can one believe without renouncing the responsibility to doubt? These eight essays argue that the answer is yes. They...
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Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition by Jennifer A. Thompson, Allison B. Wolf (Editors)
New Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely underrepresented Jewish ethical perspectives. The chapters...
Dr. B. by Daniel Birnbaum
Translator: Deborah Bragan-Turner The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War...
Jews and Science by Sander L. Gilman
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have...
On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead...
Jewish Women in Time and Torah by Eliezer Berkovits
RABBI DR. ELIEZER BERKOVITS’ FINAL BOOK, Jewish Women in Time and Torah, is a critical examination of the status of women in Halakhah. It offers a coherent theological approach by which the eternal Divine...
One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset by Shimon Adaf
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan At age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with...
Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age by Daniel Monterescu, Rachel Werczberger (Editors)
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Against the gloomy forecast of “The Vanishing Diaspora”, the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives,...
Hebrew Matters: 110 Hebrew Roots; the Roads They Take; the Stories They Tell by Joseph Lowin
Hebrew Matters is the third in a trilogy of books-following HebrewSpeak and HebrewTalk- that examines Hebrew roots, their derivations and their contexts, as they appear in the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic Literature, Medieval Hebrew Poetry,...
Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman by Samantha Pickette
Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy Jewish Women in the Americas Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy analyzes the ways in which contemporary American television—with...
