Open Judaism by Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics Open Judaism offers a big-tent welcome to all Jews and Judaism. It is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a...
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Biblical Women Speak by Rabbi Marla J. Feldman
Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash What were biblical women thinking and doing when the men around them received all the attention and glory? How did Leah, Rachel, and their handmaids negotiate...
Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome by Fredric Brandfon
The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most...
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling by Steve Zeitlin (editor)
JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes...
The Messiah Confrontation: Pharisees versus Sadducees and the Death of Jesus by Israel Knohl
Translated by David Maisel The Messiah Confrontation casts new and fascinating light on why Jesus was killed. Grounded in meticulous research on the messianism debates in the Bible and during the Second Temple period,...
The Book of Revolutions by Edward Feld
The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah The Torah is truly the Book of Revolutions, born from a military coup (the Northern Israelite revolution), the aftermath of an assassination and...
Coming to Terms with America by Jonathan D. Sarna
Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to...
Jewish Bible Translations by Leonard Greenspoon
Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has...
Thinking about the Prophets: A Philosopher Reads the Bible by Kenneth Seeskin
Rethinking the great literary prophets whose ministry ran from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE—Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah, and Job—Thinking about the Prophets examines their often-shocking teachings in light of...
Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living by Danny Siegel
Editor: Rabbi Neal Gold Foreword: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin This first anthology of the most important writings by Danny Siegel, spanning and renewing fifty years of his insights intersperses soulful Jewish texts with innovative Mitzvah ideas...
