Counting to Shavuos! by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod
Let’s number our way through the springtime, Just add up the weeks and you’ll see! Join this irrepresible monster in a celebration of the days and weeks connecting two of the biggest celebrations on...
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Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity by Eyal Ben-Eliyahu
Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse. Identity and Territory explores how ancient conceptions of Israel—of both...
Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic by Lipika Pelham
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan “carnival of nations:” French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos–and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now fleeing the Inquisition and rediscovering their ancestral faith....
The Story Of Rus by Rabbi Avraham Ohayun
Introduce your children to Rus, the forebear of Mashiach, in a most delightful way! In The Story of Rus, the saga of Elimelech, Naomi,and their family comes alive for junior readers by way of...
Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age by Miriam Feldmann Kaye
In the postmodern, relativist world-view with its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, it has become difficult if not impossible to argue in favour of one’s own beliefs as preferable to those...
Leeds and its Jewish community: A history by Derek Fraser
The book provides a comprehensive history of the third largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and Urban historiography. Bringing together the latest research and building on earlier...
Shani’s Shoebox by Rinat Hoffer
Once it was a box of shoes, now it’s a box of memories. When Shani is given new shoes for Rosh Hashanah, she doesn’t throw away the old shoebox, she reuses it for different...
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox by Roberta G. Sands
A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle. Spiritual transformation is the process of changing one’s beliefs, values, attitudes, and everyday behaviors related to a...
Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah: A Sacred Text of Kabbalah by Pinchas Giller
Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth...
Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Stories portraying heretics (‘minim’) in rabbinic literature are a central site of rabbinic engagement with the ‘other’. These stories typically involve a conflict over the interpretation of a biblical verse in which the rabbinic...
