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Nonfiction Torah in a Time of Plague: Historical and Contemporary Jewish Responses Erin Leib Smokler (Editor)
Nonfiction Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth and the Thirteen Principles of Faith Joshua Berman
Nonfiction The Master of the Ladder: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag Yedidah Cohen
Nonfiction A Year with Mordecai Kaplan: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
Nonfiction From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah Diana Lipton
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
Nonfiction Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik. Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, and Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, eds.