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    Torah & Text

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    It’s No Acci­dent the Final Com­mand­ment Is to Write

    Beth Kissileff is the author of Read­ing Gen­e­sis and a new nov­el, Ques­tion­ing Return. She is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the…
    Beth Kissileff
    October 23, 2016
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    The Secret Book of Kings
    Yochi Brandes; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.
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    The JPS Bible Com­men­tary: Song of Songs
    Michael Fishbane
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    Mai­monides — Between Phi­los­o­phy and Halakhah
    Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Lawrence J. Kaplan, ed.
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    Enjoy­ing the Book of Ruth: The Bible in Rhyme
    Marcia Goldlist
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    Jew­ish Text
    The Koren Pirkei Avot
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    Six Mem­os From the Last Millennium
    Joseph Ski­bell
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    Aphrodite and the Rabbis
    Bur­ton L. Visotzky
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Peo­ple and the Books
    Adam Kirsch
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    Visu­al Arts
    The 613
    Archie Rand
    Cover of Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity
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    Torah and West­ern Thought: Intel­lec­tu­al Por­traits of Ortho­doxy and Modernity
    Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik. Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, and Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, eds.
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    Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot, with Trans­la­tion and Commentary
    Irv­ing Greenberg
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    Talks on the Parasha
    Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yisrael Malkiel, ed.
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    The Great Prin­ci­ple of the Torah
    Rabbi Jack Bieler
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    The Secret Faith of Maestre Hon­o­ra­tus: Pro­fayt Duran and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Late Medieval Iberia
    Maud Kozodoy
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    Chanan Tigay’s Top 5 Books to Re-Read

    With the release of The Lost Book of Moses: The Search for the World’s Old­est Bible from Harper­Collins tomor­row, author Chanan Tigay is guest blog­ging here all week as part…
    Chanan Tigay
    April 11, 2016
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