New Jewish Books
The study of Jewish text, over two millennia, has traditionally taken place in the Bet Midrash (the communal study hall), sitting at a table or desk. Studying the Bible has been a project of...
“All bodies are mistranslated prophecies” Sass Orol’s debut poetry collection reexamines gender in Jewish history and steps into the present with daring and delight. From Avraham in the desert to a trans girl at...
Arthur Kurzweil grew up hearing his father’s tales of Dobromyl, the small town-a shtetl – in what is now Ukraine, which his father had left behind as a child when his family emigrated to...
In 2004, Sherri Mandell won the National Jewish Book award for The Blessing of the Broken Heart, which told of her grief and initial mourning after her 13-year-old son Koby was brutally murdered. Years...
bilingual English/Hebrew editionJewish Poetry Project Herb Levine writes spiritual Jewish poems from a personal and non-theist perspective. His poems ask us to bring the values that religion offers us-gratitude, awe and responsibility-into our everyday...
25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz was internationally regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential rabbis of our time....
The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah Rabbi Jill Hammer has taken ancient Jewish mystical text and transformed it into a contemporary guide for meditative practice. In Return to the Place, Rabbi Hammer guides...
Intertwined Narratives of Sexuality, Gender, Body Image, and Jewish Identity Foreword by Rabbanit Dasi FruchterIntroduction by Sara Rozner Lawrence A collection of first-person poetry and prose designed to break the observant Jewish community’s taboo against...
Jewish Poetry Project “These remarkable poems blend spiritual unease with religious confidence, an investigator’s fascinated spirit with a sense that the poet has almost—but not quite—come home. Caplan writes to portray this Orthodox Jewish...
Letters of a Liberal Rabbi To His Children and the Millennial Generation Presented in the form of letters from a rabbi to his sons, Why Israel (and its Future) Matters) makes the case to...
