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Nonfiction Planting Seeds of the Divine: Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice Yiscah Smith
Interview ‘Dwelling in the Messy Middle’: A Conversation Between Marc Katz and Daniel Taub Marc Katz June 9, 2025
Nonfiction Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement Daniel Taub
Interview ‘The Spirit of Radicalism’: A Conversation Between Sara Lippmann and Seth Rogoff Simona Zaretsky May 26, 2025
Nonfiction Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible Sara Lippmann Seth Rogoff
Nonfiction Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity Malka Z. Simkovich
Interview Hearing is Believing: A Conversation Between Abigail Pogrebin and Dov Linzer Abigail Pogrebin, Dov Linzer September 9, 2024
Excerpt Excerpt — The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom Adina Allen August 5, 2024
Nonfiction Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture Mira Balberg
Nonfiction A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork Lenn E. Goodman
Nonfiction Living with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation Delphine Horvilleur; Lisa Appignanesi, trans.
