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    Items with the tag:

    torah

    Cover of Reading Genesis: Beginnings
    Non­fic­tion
    Read­ing Gen­e­sis: Beginnings
    Beth Kissileff, ed.
    Cover of The Bible Doesn't Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings
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    The Bible Does­n’t Say That: 40 Bib­li­cal Mis­trans­la­tions, Mis­con­cep­tions, and Oth­er Misunderstandings
    Joel Hoff­man
    Cover of Challah: A Chewish Guide to the Torah
    Chil­dren’s
    Chal­lah: A Chewish Guide to the Torah
    Susan Abramson; Genna Sandler, illus.
    Cover of The Illuminated Torah: Paintings and Essays on the Weekly Portions
    Visu­al Arts
    The Illu­mi­nat­ed Torah: Paint­ings and Essays on the Week­ly Portions
    Avner Moriah and Shulamit Laderman
    Cover of Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
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    Walk­ing the Bible: A Jour­ney by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
    Bruce Feiler
    Essay

    7 Sur­pris­es in the Eng­lish Trans­la­tion of the Torah

    Ear­li­er this week, Aviya Kush­n­er wrote about the ​“smash­ing, pos­i­tive­ly dash­ing spec­ta­cle” of mod­ern the­ater per­formed in Hebrew. She is the author of The Gram­mar…
    Aviya Kush­n­er
    September 10, 2015
    Essay

    The Pow­er of Sto­ry: How Ancient Tales Shaped One Author’s Mod­ern Fiction

    Lau­ra Nicole Diamond
    August 11, 2015
    Essay

    The Doomed Generation

    Joshua Cohen​’s most recent nov­el, Book of Num­bers, will be pub­lished this week by Ran­dom House. He is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…
    Joshua Cohen
    June 8, 2015
    Cover of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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    The Gram­mar of God: A Jour­ney into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
    Aviya Kush­n­er
    Essay

    Allud­ing to the Torah

    Daniel Tor­day​’s novel­la The Sen­su­al­ist won the 2012 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in Out­stand­ing Debut Fic­tion. His debut nov­el, The Last Flight of Poxl West, was…
    Daniel Tor­day
    May 18, 2015
    Essay

    Tack­ling the ​“Sticky” Torah Por­tions in Lim­er­ick Form

    Ear­li­er this week, Joe Black wrote about how he came to write a book of lim­er­icks for every Torah por­tion. His newest book, There Once Was a Man From Canaan: The…
    Joe Black
    May 14, 2015
    Essay

    “Torah Lim­er­icks?” ​“Real­ly?” ​“Why?”

    Joe Black serves as Senior Rab­bi of Tem­ple Emanuel in Den­ver, CO. He also is an author of children’s books and a gui­tarist/singer-song­writer of orig­i­nal Jew­ish…
    Joe Black
    May 12, 2015
    Essay

    What the Life­time Adap­ta­tion of Ani­ta Dia­man­t’s The Red Tent Missed

    Ear­li­er this week, Michal Lem­berg­er wrote about turn­ing King David into a vil­lain and Lot’s wife and the oth­er name­less women of the Bible. She is the author of the…
    Michal Lem­berg­er
    April 24, 2015
    Cover of Daily Wisdom: Inspiring Insights on the Torah Portion from the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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    Dai­ly Wis­dom: Inspir­ing Insights on the Torah Por­tion from the Lubav­itch­er Rebbe
    Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky
    Cover of The Aura of Torah: A Kabbalistic-Hasidic Commentary to the Weekly Readings
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    The Aura of Torah: A Kab­bal­is­tic-Hasidic Com­men­tary to the Week­ly Readings
    Rabbi Larry Tabick
    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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