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    Torah & Text

    Cover of Can Robots Be Jewish?: Inspirational Rabbis Answer Pressing Questions of Modern Life
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    Can Robots Be Jew­ish?: Inspi­ra­tional Rab­bis Answer Press­ing Ques­tions of Mod­ern Life
    Amy E. Schwartz

    ‘Sacred Sto­ries as Metaphor’: A Mod­ern Retelling of Bib­li­cal Stories

    Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
    August 19, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Cre­ation Colors
    Ann D. Koffsky
    Cover of A Year with Mordecai Kaplan: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion
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    A Year with Morde­cai Kaplan: Wis­dom on the Week­ly Torah Portion
    Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
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    Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth
    Stu­art Halpern
    Essay

    How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grap­ple with Dif­fi­cult Reli­gious Texts

    When a text dis­ap­points us with an anti-human mes­sage, we will avoid the sin of pre­ma­ture for­give­ness, of let­ting the text off the hook too easily.

    Ariel Burg­er
    February 26, 2019
    Essay

    What the Torah Tells Us About God’s Gender

    Joy Ladin
    October 23, 2018
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    The Cre­ation Book
    Chani Gansburg; Dena Ackerman, illus.
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    In the Shad­ow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song
    Jerome Charyn
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    From For­bid­den Fruit to Milk and Hon­ey: A Com­men­tary on Food in the Torah
    Diana Lipton
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    Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible
    Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus.
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    The Ratio­nal Bible: Exo­dus: God, Slav­ery, and Freedom
    Den­nis Prager
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    All the World Prais­es You!
    Debra Band
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    Path of the Prophets: The Ethics-Dri­ven Life
    Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
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    The Tal­mud: A Biography 
    Bar­ry Scott Wimpfheimer
    Essay—From the Journal

    Com­ments on Commentary

    Jew­ish learn­ing is not about cre­at­ing some­thing new, but rather about find­ing some­thing new. 

    David Wolpe
    December 22, 2017
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