New Jewish Books
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...
Chaim Waxman, the pre-eminent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. Having written on various aspects of this subject over the past forty years, he now revisits...
In his newest edition of The Book of Life: A Transformative Guide to the High Holidays, Rabbi Eliezer Hirsch provides fresh insight and upends common misconceptions about Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This guide...
In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for “abominable heresies” and “monstrous deeds,” the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious...
A Suspenseful Saga of Nazi Intrigue and Divine Providence Across Two Continents and Two Generations Yitzchak Austerlitz, a Holocaust survivor who lost his first wife and three children, visits Yad Vashem and collapses in...
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous...
“On the day after Yom Kippur, as he did every year, the old Rabbi shaped a Golem from a mound of clay.” So begins this powerful fable about a man of clay who tries...
