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, […]
April 2017 /Nissan 5777 Dear Friends, At JPS we strive to publish books that will stand the test of time. We aim for works that will enhance Jewish literacy for years, if not generations. With a shelf full of JPS classics that have remained in print for decades, I don’t think this is an idle boast. […]
April 30, 2017 Dear Friends, One hundred years ago JPS published its first translation of the Hebrew Bible.The Holy Scriptures (1917) became the translation of record for the American Jewish community for the next half-century. Finding a place in Jewish homes across America, it sold in the hundreds of thousands, and accompanied Jewish GIs in two […]
Read an article by Mordecai Paldiel on ReformJudaism.org
Read ReformJudaism.org’s review of The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary Like many rites of passage, bar/bat mitzvah embraces the idea of a challenge – in this case, an intellectual one. -Rabbi Jeff Salkin
OnScript podcast with Jeremiah Unterman, author of ‘Justice for All’ Many are often surprised to find out that Jesus did not invent the ideal of loving our neighbor as ourselves, rather he is quoting Leviticus from the Torah.
Read a review in The Jewish Link In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust.
Read the Review in The Jewish Standard “He wants to add the stories of Jewish rescuers to their place among those narratives of extraordinary goodness and courage.”
Read Review in The Times of Israel “Tuvia Bielski saved the same number of Jews as Oskar Schindler”
The books of the Hebrew Bible were written thousands of years ago in a very different world from ours. Already in the Middle Ages, respected Jewish thinkers like Moses Maimonides and Abraham ibn Ezra realized that the more we know about the ancient Near East in biblical times, the better we understand the nuances of […]
