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Torah & Text

Essay

What the Torah Tells Us About God’s Gender

Joy Ladin
October 23, 2018
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Chil­dren’s
The Cre­ation Book
Chani Gansburg; Dena Ackerman, illus.
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Non­fic­tion
In the Shad­ow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song
Jerome Charyn
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Non­fic­tion
From For­bid­den Fruit to Milk and Hon­ey: A Com­men­tary on Food in the Torah
Diana Lipton
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Chil­dren’s
Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible
Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus.
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Non­fic­tion
The Ratio­nal Bible: Exo­dus: God, Slav­ery, and Freedom
Den­nis Prager
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Visu­al Arts
All the World Prais­es You!
Debra Band
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Non­fic­tion
Path of the Prophets: The Ethics-Dri­ven Life
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
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The Tal­mud: A Biography 
Bar­ry Scott Wimpfheimer
Essay—From the Journal

Com­ments on Commentary

Jew­ish learn­ing is not about cre­at­ing some­thing new, but rather about find­ing some­thing new. 

David Wolpe
December 22, 2017
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Learn­ing to Read Tal­mud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, eds.
Essay

30 Days, 30 Authors: Ilana Kurshan

Ilana Kur­shan
December 6, 2017
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Jews, Gen­tiles, and Oth­er Ani­mals: The Tal­mud After the Humanities
Mira Beth Wasserman
Essay

The Dra­ma of the Tal­mu­dic Page

Ruby Nam­dar
November 8, 2017
Essay

How I Stopped Wor­ry­ing and Learned to Love the Holy Temple

Ruby Nam­dar
November 6, 2017
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The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 2
Shai Held
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