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…

Ear­li­er this week, Aviya Kush­n­er wrote about the ​“smash­ing, pos­i­tive­ly dash­ing spec­ta­cle” of mod­ern the­ater per­formed in Hebrew. She is the author of The Gram­mar…

Joshua Cohen​’s most recent nov­el, Book of Num­bers, will be pub­lished this week by Ran­dom House. He is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…

Daniel Tor­day​’s novel­la The Sen­su­al­ist won the 2012 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in Out­stand­ing Debut Fic­tion. His debut nov­el, The Last Flight of Poxl West, was…

Ear­li­er this week, Joe Black wrote about how he came to write a book of lim­er­icks for every Torah por­tion. His newest book, There Once Was a Man From Canaan: The…

Joe Black serves as Senior Rab­bi of Tem­ple Emanuel in Den­ver, CO. He also is an author of children’s books and a gui­tarist/singer-song­writer of orig­i­nal Jew­ish…

Ear­li­er this week, Michal Lem­berg­er wrote about turn­ing King David into a vil­lain and Lot’s wife and the oth­er name­less women of the Bible. She is the author of the…