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Torah & Text

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Bib­li­cal Images: Men and Women of the Book
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yehuda Hanegbi and Yehudit Keshet, trans.
Cover of Every Picture Tells a Story: Illustrated Torah Verses and Commentary for Every Age -- Book Two: Shmos
Chil­dren’s
Every Pic­ture Tells a Sto­ry: Illus­trat­ed Torah Vers­es and Com­men­tary for Every Age — Book Two: Shmos
Chaim Natan Firszt
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Chil­dren’s
Every Pic­ture Tells a Sto­ry: Illus­trat­ed Torah Vers­es and Com­men­tary for Every Age, Vol­ume One: Bereishis
Chaim Natan Firszt
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Jew­ish Text
A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature
Benjamin J. Segal
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Out­side the Bible, 3‑Volume Set: Ancient Jew­ish Writ­ings Relat­ed to Scripture
Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel & Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds.
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Non­fic­tion
Psalms in a Trans­la­tion for Praying
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Interview

Inter­view: David Wolpe

by Beth KissileffBeth Kissileff recent­ly spoke with David Wolpe about his newest book, David: The Divid­ed Heart, pub­lished by Yale Uni­ver­si­ty PressAt one point dur­ing…
Beth Kissileff
September 16, 2014
Interview

Inter­view: Joel M. Hoffman

by Rab­bi Lawrence A. HoffmanA fre­quent speak­er at syn­a­gogues and JCCs, Joel M. Hoff­man, Ph.D., authored two books before writ­ing his most recent book, The Bible’s…
Lawrence A. Hoffman
September 9, 2014
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Chil­dren’s
Sid­dur Katan: Shab­bat Prayer Book for Fam­i­lies with Young Children
Jaime Lewis with Michelle V. Katz
Essay

How I Came to Write Jew­ish Artists and the Bible in 20th-Cen­tu­ry America

Ear­li­er this week, Saman­tha Baskind wrote about the artist Jack Levine and about some of the artists she inter­viewed for Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Artists.…
Saman­tha Baskind
August 15, 2014
Essay

Nao­mi, Ruth, and the South

Ear­li­er this week, Lenore Weiss wrote about Rab­bi Levi Sel­wyn and Torah ​“Kosher­ing” and asked Rab­bi Sel­wyn a few ques­tion about the process. Her most recent…
Lenore Weiss
August 8, 2014
Interview

Torah Kosher­ing: Take Two

Ear­li­er this week, Lenore Weiss wrote about Rab­bi Levi Sel­wyn and Torah ​“Kosher­ing.” Her most recent col­lec­tion, Two Places, is now avail­able. She is blog­ging here…
Lenore Weiss
August 6, 2014
Essay

A Job for a Sofer

Lenore Weiss​’s most recent col­lec­tion,Two Places, is now avail­able. She is blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.With a ready…
Lenore Weiss
August 4, 2014
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Cook­book
Eat­ing the Bible: Over 50 Deli­cious Recipes to Feed Your Body and Nour­ish Your Soul
Rena Ross­ner
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Chil­dren’s
The Patch­work Torah
Allison Ofanansky; Elsa Oriol, illus.
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The Bible’s Cut­ting Room Floor
Joel Hoff­man
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