Bible Studies The Biblical Hero by Elliott RabinThe Bible’s Many Voices by Michael CarasikCain v. Abel: A Jewish Courtroom Drama by Dan Ornstein (study guide within book)The Commentators’ Bible by Michael Carasik – study guide by Neal ScheindlinJewish Bible Translations by Leonard J. GreenspoonJPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot by Laura Suzanne LieberThe JPS Rashi Discussion Commentary by Steven and […]
Jewish Standard ReviewTRADITION: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought Review TRADITION Podcast 11/4/20
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There are eight chapters, so you can tear it up and give one each night If you don’t buy it, you’ll feel guilty (assuming you are Jewish) It will look good under the tree. Oops, wrong holiday Your mother will be proud you bought a Jewish book No animals were harmed making the book, except […]
Why do the portraits of Biblical heroes contain such flaws? In the ancient world, heroes were taken much more seriously than they are today. Societies often portrayed one person or character as the primary hero of the culture. That person was depicted as being on a higher plane of existence than mere mortals–as partly divine, […]
What made you cast the Cain and Abel story as a trial? As I mention in the book, one day I was sitting in jury selection for a criminal trial at our local county courthouse. The presiding judge took great care in advising all of us about our grave responsibilities to seek the truth and […]
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 […]
Jewish Book Council review by Jonathan Fass, May 2019Reconstructing Judaism review by Elsie Stern, July 2019Wisdom Learned at the Feet of Mordecai Kaplan, Oct 2019
Before Heschel Became Heschel, Moment Magazine, May 29, 2019Shepherd Express, July 2019
For too many Jewish young people, bar/bat mitzvah has been the beginning of the end of their Jewish journeys. When students perceive the Torah as incomprehensible or irrelevant, many form the false impression that Judaism has nothing to say to them. Enter the game-changer: the JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own […]
