Judaism

Stress is a part of modern lifediscover how to use it to grow spiritually, emotionally and psychologically. Stress takes life and gives life.... I...

Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as ...

Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in E...

Your Name Is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings represents the first time that the secrets of the Kabbalah, the mystical teach...

A twelve-year-old boy named Peisach is snatched from his home in a shtetl near Vitebsk in 1842 and marched far away to be prepared for 25 years of ...

Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in both. As...

Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion, the opening of the human heart to Gods presence, to be the...

Shai Held is one of the most important teachers of Torah in his generation. Rabbi David Wolpe, author of David: The Divided HeartIn The Heart of To...

Song of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Biblesongs of passion and praise between a young maiden an...

A major Conservative movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jew...

In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Ge...

Neo-Hasidism applies the Hasidic masters spiritual insightsof Gods presence everywhere, of seeking the magnificent within the everyday, in doing al...

You are invited to enter the new-old pathway of Neo-Hasidisma movement that uplifts key elements of Hasidisms Jewish revival of two centuries ago t...

Approaching the Bible in an original waycomparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literatureElliott Rabin addresses a core biblical question: Wh...

Illuminating the ethical legacy of the biblical prophets, Path of the Prophets identifies the prophetic moment in the lives of eighteen biblical fi...

In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century...

Is laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and make love ...

This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off despair and the dangers these same narratives create by raising expectations th...

This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off despair and the dangers these same narratives create by raising expectations th...

Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating ...