CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly review by Rabbi Laura Geller, Fall 2021
A New Hasidism: Branches
You are invited to enter the new-old pathway of Neo-Hasidism—a movement that uplifts key elements of Hasidism’s Jewish revival of two centuries ago to reexamine the meaning of existence, see everything anew, and bring the world as it is and as it can be closer together. This volume brings this discussion into the twenty-first century, […]
List of Forthcoming & Recent Titles – UPDATED Fall 2019
2020 Navon, Emmanuel—The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel November 2020 The first encompassing book on the diplomatic history of the Jewish people retraces and explains the Jews’ interactions with other nations from the ancient kingdom of Israel to the modern State of Israel. Greenspoon, Leonard—Jewish Bible Translations: A Comparative History November […]
In This Hour
In This Hour, edited and annotated by Helen Plotkin, is the first-ever publication in English of many writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel: his vision for Jewish education, portraits of the rabbis of the Mishnaic period facing expulsion and extinction under Roman rule, a biographical study of Don Yitzhak Abravanel, the power of repentance in 1936, […]
A New Hasidism: Roots
Neo-Hasidism applies the spiritual insights of the Hasidic masters—God’s presence everywhere, seeking the magnificent within the everyday, doing all things with love and joy, uplifting all of life to become a vehicle of God’s service—to contemporary Judaism, as practiced by men and women who do not live within the strictly bounded world of the Hasidic […]
TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures, Presentation Edition (white)
This edition has a white leatherette binding and is sold with a gift box. The presentation edition is also available in black. For information about other editions of The JPS TANAKH, download The JPS Tanakh: A Customer Guide to Choosing Your Bible. Ebook versions of this title may be purchased from most ebook vendors. Regarded throughout […]
TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures, Presentation Edition (black)
This edition has a black leatherette binding and is sold with a gift box. The presentation edition is also available in white. For information about other editions of The JPS TANAKH, download The JPS Tanakh: A Customer Guide to Choosing Your Bible. Ebook versions of this title may be purchased from most ebook vendors. Regarded throughout the […]
TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue)
This edition is available in hardcover and paperback. For information about other editions of the JPS TANAKH, download The JPS Tanakh: A Customer Guide to Choosing Your Bible. Ebook versions of this title may be purchased from most ebook vendors. Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed […]
JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture 1888-1988
Jonathan Sarna’s meticulously documented centennial history presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by America’s foremost publisher of Jewish books in English. Sarna’s engaging blend of anecdote and analysis contextualizes the Jewish Publication Society within American Jewry’s evolving social, political, and cultural history. He demonstrates that […]
