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    Torah & Text

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    Sub­ver­sive Sequels in the Bible
    Judy Klitsner
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    Non­fic­tion
    Law and Truth in Bib­li­cal and Rab­binic Literature
    Chaya T. Halberstam
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    The Com­men­ta­tors’ Bible: The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot : Leviticus
    Michael Carasik, ed. and trans.
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    Covenant and Con­ver­sa­tion, A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible, Gen­e­sis: The Book of Beginnings
    Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
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    Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: War and Nation­al Security
    Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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    The Bible Now
    Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky
    Essay

    Reimag­in­ing the Talmud

    Ear­li­er this week, Aaron Roller, an edi­tor of Mima’amakim, wrote about the Jew­ish Austin Pow­ers and the Jew­ish poet­ry con­spir­a­cy.I knew some­thing…
    Aaron Roller
    March 4, 2011
    Essay

    Imag­ine You Don’t Know How To Read A Novel

    In his last posts, Rab­bi Elie Kaun­fer, the author of Empow­ered Judaism: What Inde­pen­dent Minyan­im Can Teach Us about Build­ing Vibrant Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties, wrote…
    Elie Kaun­fer
    April 9, 2010
    Essay

    A Trav­el Tip

    In his last posts, David Rosen­berg, whose lat­est books are A Lit­er­ary Bible: An Orig­i­nal Trans­la­tion and An Edu­cat­ed Man: A Dual Biog­ra­phy of…
    David Rosen­berg
    February 26, 2010
    Essay

    The Judeo-Chris­tian­i­ty Section

    In his last post, David Rosen­berg, whose lat­est books are A Lit­er­ary Bible: An Orig­i­nal Trans­la­tion and An Edu­cat­ed Man: A Dual Biog­ra­phy of…
    David Rosen­berg
    February 24, 2010
    Essay

    The Writer of Writers

    David Rosen­berg, whose lat­est books are A Lit­er­ary Bible: An Orig­i­nal Trans­la­tion and An Edu­cat­ed Man: A Dual Biog­ra­phy of Moses and Jesus,…
    David Rosen­berg
    February 22, 2010
    Essay

    The Tow­er of Babel and Cri­sis of Translation

    In her last posts, Ellen Frankel looked at how to make the Bible PG and looked at ​“What is Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture?”. She has been guest-blog­ging all…
    Ellen Frankel
    October 23, 2009
    Essay

    Mak­ing the Bible PG: How Children’s Bibles Differ

    Ellen Frankel, author of JPS Illus­trat­ed Children’s Bible, as well as the Edi­tor-in-Chief and CEO of the Jew­ish Pub­li­ca­tion Soci­ety, is guest-blog­ging all week…
    Ellen Frankel
    October 19, 2009
    Recommended Reading

    The new Koren Siddur

    Post­ed by Libi AdlerEvery once in a while we get books in our office that don’t fall into the usu­al mold.By Rab­bi Sir Jonathan SacksToday I was look­ing…
    Libi Adler
    September 16, 2009
    Essay

    Mag­gie Anton on Jews and the First Crusade

    Mag­gie Anton
    September 4, 2009
    Essay

    Mag­gie Anton on Being a His­tor­i­cal Novelist

    Mag­gie Anton
    September 2, 2009
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