Rabbi Wayne AllenToronto, Ontario (Canada)Virtual / In-person Thinking About Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity (2021)2021 Winner, The Academy of Parish Clergy’s Top 5 List of Reference Books for Clergy PRESENTATION TOPICS:– Theology After the Holocaust– Reconciling a Just God with an Evil World– The Problem That Will Not Go Away– Theodicy […]

(Philadelphia and Jerusalem, July 2025) The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), a leading publisher of Jewish thought and scholarship since 1888, is proud to announce a new partnership with The Hebrew University Magnes Press, the publishing house of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This collaboration brings together two historic institutions with a shared mission: to produce rigorous, […]

(Philadelphia, July 16, 2024)  The Jewish Publication Society is pleased to welcome our new Director and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich, who will join JPS on September 1, 2024. Dr. Simkovich joins JPS after serving as the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. JPS […]

The October 7th terrorist massacre by Hamas, the subsequent Israel/Hamas war, and the ongoing and evolving events in Israel and around the world have underscored how important it is for communities, Jewish and non-Jewish, to understand the history of Israel, Zionism, and antisemitism—and how much misinformation and confusion exist about these topics in many segments of […]