The Girl with More Than One Heart by Laura Geringer Bass
There are times we all feel we need more than one heart to get through. When Briana’s father dies, she imagines she has a new heart growing inside her. It speaks to her in...
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The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality by Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for...
The Discourse on Kabbalah in the Wissenschaft Des Judentums, 1820-1880 by George Y. Kohler
In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend...
The Edelweiss Pirates by Jennifer Elvgren
Illustrator: Daniela Stamatiadi In Germany in 1938, playing and dancing to jazz music is forbidden. The Hitler Youth patrol the night streets looking for anyone who breaks the rules. Albert is a member of...
The Kabbalistic System of The Ari: The Hidden Meaning, Symbolism and Sexuality of Lurian Mysticism by Leonard R Glotzer
The value and insights of Kabbala have in recent years been acknowledged by a wide range of people and by scholars of various backgrounds. Not only have theologians and philosophers shown a great interest...
Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul by Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography and The Murderous History of Bible Translations, explores the mysterious Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah. Kabbalah is popularly known as a fashionable system for personal and...
Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses
An insider’s account of Romania’s emergence from communism control In the 1970s American attorney Alfred H. Moses was approached on the streets of Bucharest by young Jews seeking help to emigrate to Israel. This...
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud by Andrew Ramer
Afterword: David Wolpe Eighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one sixth of the Earth’s population has died in a vast pandemic, a noted rabbi in Brooklyn hosts...
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three...
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Raphael Jospe
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the formative period of medieval Jewish philosophy, from its beginnings with Saadiah Gaon to its apex in Maimonides, when Jews living in Islamic countries...
