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genesis

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Chil­dren’s
My Hands Make the World
Amalia Hoff­man
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Fic­tion
Let There Be Light: The Real Sto­ry of Her Creation
Liana Finck
Poetry

Days of Awe

Maia Evrona
September 13, 2021
Essay

An Hon­est and Decent Liv­ing in the Dig­i­tal Economy

Michael Eisen­berg
August 23, 2021
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Fic­tion
Cain v. Abel: A Jew­ish Court­room Drama
Dan Orn­stein
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Non­fic­tion
The Bib­li­cal Hero: Por­traits in Nobil­i­ty and Fallibility
Elliot Rabin
Poetry

Cast­ing Stones

Miri­am Flock
August 10, 2020
Essay

Queer­ing Genesis

Sarah Blake
June 15, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Cre­ation Colors
Ann D. Koffsky
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
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Read­ing Gen­e­sis: Beginnings
Beth Kissileff, ed.
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Derashot Ledorot: Gen­e­sis, A Com­men­tary for the Ages
Norman Lamm; Stuart Halpern, ed.; Meir Soloveichik, fwd.
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Non­fic­tion
Torah Lights: Gen­e­sis Con­fronts Life, Love and Fam­i­ly, Vol. 1
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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Poet­ry
Threads from a Coat of Many Col­ors: Poems on Genesis
Yakov Azriel
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Wrestling Jacob: Decep­tion, Iden­ti­ty and Freudi­an Slips in Genesis
Shmuel Klitsner
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