Enjoy your JPS Tanakh audio. When you download the Tanakh, you will see 10 parts in your library. Each download part is divided into chapters. These chapters are not identical to the chapters of the Bible, so we have created a guide below to help you better navigate. If you would like to listen to […]
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Joshua Jacobson returns with new ‘Chanting the Hebrew Bible’
Q. What inspired you to write about chanting the Hebrew Bible? A. I’ve been chanting Torah since I was a teenager. I thought I understood the system of Torah chant until about 25 years ago, when a friend from my synagogue introduced me to the teachings of Michael Pearlman, an Israeli educator who had devised […]
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Rabbi Shai Held brings readers into ‘The Heart of Torah’
Q. How did these two volumes of essays come to be? What led to you deciding to publish them? A. The essays that comprise The Heart of Torah began as a series of emails to an ever-growing list of subscribers. From the beginning, what was so striking to me was the sheer diversity of who […]
Audio Interview with Jewish Sacred Aging
Listen to an interview with Rabbi Jeff Salkin about ‘The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary’
Read a feature article in ‘The Five Towns Jewish Home’
Read the article by Tammy Mark. “The people who did these things – these heroes- were people we can identify with, that did it for the simple reason that it had to be done.”
‘Justice for All’ review by Jewish Book Council
Read a review by Stu Halpern of Jewish Book Council. “His work is certain to inspire readers to seek further study of the Bible.”
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Watch Mordecai Paldiel on Jewish Resistance to the Nazis
Mordecai Paldiel, author of “Saying One’s One: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust,” published by JPS, in conversation with Lawrence Bush, of Jewish Currents, at Congregation Emanuel in Kingston, NY, May 31, 2017
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Listen to Audio of the JPS Bible Symposium 2017
Jewish Bible scholars from all the major rabbinical seminaries and universities convene to discuss translating the Hebrew Bible in the age of technology and mass media. At The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, April 30, 2017
Review of “Justice for All’ on JNS
Read a review of “Justice for All’ on JNS.com “What emerges from this book is an appreciation of the uniqueness of the Bible in the ancient world, and its relevance for our world as well. Its central thesis is the centrality of ethics—not magic or superstition—in the biblical worldview, and the reality of God as […]
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JPS Enters Digital Age with Sefaria
May 11, 2017 The 1985 Jewish Publication Society (JPS) Tanakh translation, a celebrated American-Jewish resource, is now available online thanks to Sefaria, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering open, participatory Jewish learning for the digital era. Since June 2016, the translation has been the default choice on the popular site, which calls itself “a free, […]