Judaism Disrupted by Michael Strassfeld
A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century How do you hold on to faith in a modern world? Rabbi Michael Strassfeld digs deep into the Jewish tradition to help us get to the root...
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Under One Tent: Circus, Judaism, and Bible by Ora Horn Prouser, Michael Kasper, Ayal Prouser (Editors)
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...
The Shortest Skirt in Shul by Sass Orol
“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...
The Persistence of Memory by Arthur Kurzweil
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...
Reaching for Comfort: What I Saw, What I Learned, and How I Blew it Training as a Pastoral Counselor by Sherri Mandell
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...
An Added Soul: Poems for a New Old Religion by Herbert J. Levine
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...
On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz by Arthur Kurzweil
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....
Return to the Place by Jill Hammer
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...
Monologues from the Makom; Editors Rivka Cohen, Sara Rozner Lawrence, Sarah J. Ricklan
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...
Into My Garden by David Caplan
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...
