Judaism

In this volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational, values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidaysfestivals a...

In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outl...

The collection Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Fourth Series commences with two historical theological essays, one on the apologetics...

The Struggle for Jerusalem and the Holy Land Between Judaism and Islam is a new inquiry into the Quran and classic Islamic sources on the people of...

Recognized as a classic in the field, this book is a pioneering study dealing with the traditional rationale behind the 613 commandments, or mitzvo...

With biographical information on the 400 authors of the Talmud and hundreds of anecdotes about these sages as recorded in the Talmud itself, this c...

How to transform the model of twentieth-century Jewish institutions into twenty-first-century relational communities offering meaning and purpose, ...

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movemen...

During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of ...

This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity d...

Does it mean nothing at all that we are spiritual beings? What does one of the world's oldest religions have to say? After the astonishing success ...

A deeply relatable, comforting guide for anyone who ever feels overwhelmed by parenthood . . . does not shy away from matters like the author's pos...

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was not only one of the outstanding Talmudists and religious leaders of the 20th century, but also one of its most creati...