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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Essay Poem as a Noisy Mediterranean Duplex Jake Marmer is the author of Jazz Talmud. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.About a decade ago I read a Billy… Jake Marmer January 3, 2012
Nonfiction Talmud Study in Yeshiva High Schools Aharon Lichtenstein & Yehuda Brandes; Jeffrey Saks ed.
Nonfiction Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures Talya Fishman
Nonfiction Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash Sandra E. Rapoport
Essay Reimagining the Talmud Earlier this week, Aaron Roller, an editor of Mima’amakim, wrote about the Jewish Austin Powers and the Jewish poetry conspiracy.I knew something… Aaron Roller March 4, 2011
Essay The Writer of Writers David Rosenberg, whose latest books are A Literary Bible: An Original Translation and An Educated Man: A Dual Biography of Moses and Jesus,… David Rosenberg February 22, 2010
News Reading the Talmud on the B Train Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times published an interesting article yesterday by Alexis Mainland on reading while traveling on the NYC subway… JBC Staff September 4, 2009