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Creation Colors

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

In the Beginning, Dr. Ruth Read Genesis

Beth Kissileff is the editor of Reading Genesis: Beginnings, a collection of essays on the Hebrew Bible by experts in range of non-rabbinic fields. Beth is blogging…

Beth Kissileff

February 29, 2016

Reading Genesis: Beginnings

Beth Kissileff, ed.

Derashot Ledorot: Genesis, A Commentary for the Ages

Norman Lamm; Stuart Halpern, ed.; Meir Soloveichik, fwd.

Torah Lights: Genesis Confronts Life, Love and Family, Vol. 1

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Threads from a Coat of Many Colors: Poems on Genesis

Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity and Freudian Slips in Genesis

Shmuel Klitsner

Essay

The First Jewish Debate

Earlier this week, Rabbi Barry Schwartz wrote about needing more Jewish debate. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.The…

Barry Schwartz

March 28, 2012

Sarah Laughed: Sonnets From Genesis

Judith Goldhaber; Gerson Goldhaber, illus.

In the Beginning: The Art of Genesis

Chuck Fischer, producer; Curtis Flowers, text; Bruce Foster, paper engineer

Genesis – The Book with Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family

Esther Takac; Anna Pignataro, illus.

The Serpent’s Skin: Creation, Knowledge, and Intimacy in the Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis

Robert Crumb; Robert Alter, trans.

Covenant and Conversation, A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

News

R.Crumb Does Genesis

Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterR. Crumb has finished his “Genesis Project,” a graphic novel projected for this Fall as reported by GalleyCat.Robot 6Crumb…

JBC Staff

March 26, 2009