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The Art of Bible Translation

A Year with Mordecai Kaplan: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben

From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah

The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe

The Heart of Torah, Volume 2

The Heart of Torah, Volume 1

Poets of the Bible

Willis Barnstone

How It’s Made: Torah Scroll

Allison Ofanansky; Eliyahu Alpern, illus.

Essay

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

Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik. Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, and Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, eds.

The Great Principle of the Torah

Rabbi Jack Bieler

Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; Ronald Heifetz, fwd.

The Good Book: Writers Reflect On Favorite Bible Verses

Essay

Bringing Bling to the Bible

Earlier this week, Beth Kissileff shared the experiences and conversations that inspired Reading Genesis, a collection of essays on the Hebrew Bible by experts…

Beth Kissileff

March 2, 2016

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.