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Torah & Text

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Chil­dren’s
Joseph the Dreamer
Becky Laff
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Chil­dren’s
How It’s Made: Torah Scroll
Allison Ofanansky; Eliyahu Alpern, illus.
Essay

Lessons from Bereshit for Con­tem­po­rary Novelists

Jacob Bacharach
March 16, 2017
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Non­fic­tion
Books of the Peo­ple: Revis­it­ing Clas­sic Works of Jew­ish Thought
Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, ed.
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Sto­ry of Hebrew

If I had to sum up this book cov­er in one word, it would be ​“AMEN”: Lewis Glinert’s lin­guis­tic his­to­ry The Sto­ry of Hebrew boasts one of the loveli­est cov­ers of…
Nat Bern­stein
February 2, 2017
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The Zohar: Recep­tion and Impact
Boaz Huss
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Non­fic­tion
Sex­u­al­i­ty in the Baby­lon­ian Talmud
Yishai Kiel
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Non­fic­tion
The House of the Mother
Cynthia R. Chapman
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The Last Rab­bi: Joseph Soloveitchik and the Tal­mu­dic Tradition
William Kolbrenner
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Inter­view: Chanan Tigay

with Daniel EstrinFor Jew­ish Book Month, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil spoke with Chanan Tigay about his debut book, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Old­est Bible,…
Daniel Estrin
December 6, 2016
Essay

It’s No Acci­dent the Final Com­mand­ment Is to Write

Beth Kissileff is the author of Read­ing Gen­e­sis and a new nov­el, Ques­tion­ing Return. She is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the…
Beth Kissileff
October 23, 2016
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Fic­tion
The Secret Book of Kings
Yochi Brandes; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.
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The JPS Bible Com­men­tary: Song of Songs
Michael Fishbane
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Mai­monides — Between Phi­los­o­phy and Halakhah
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Lawrence J. Kaplan, ed.
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Chil­dren’s
Enjoy­ing the Book of Ruth: The Bible in Rhyme
Marcia Goldlist
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The Koren Pirkei Avot
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