The Jewish Publication Society imprint: 96 books
The Heart of Torah, Volume 2
Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held’s Torah essays—two for each weekly portion—open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other...
The Heart of Torah, Volume 1
Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held’s Torah essays—two for each weekly portion—open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary.
Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators...
by Rabbi Michael Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father that he was no longer responsible for his thirteen-year-old son. Today, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls are more popular than...
A Bride for One Night
Talmud Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
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Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic...
On Women and Judaism
A View From Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A classic for more than 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.
The Rise of Reform Judaism
A Sourcebook of Its European Origins
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut’s classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish...
The Growth of Reform Judaism
American and European Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut’s classic second volume on the history of the Jewish Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the original writings that shaped the second century of organized liberal Judaism. The Growth of Reform Judaism features a new introduction, a new epilogue,...
Thinking about the Torah
A Philosopher Reads the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind, and readers of Thinking about the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great work’s deeper meanings. Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly Jewish philosophy, Kenneth Seeskin delves into ten...
The Land of Truth
Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and...
Modern Conservative Judaism
Evolving Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A major Conservative movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century. His candid observations concerning the movement’s ongoing tension between constancy and change shed...
Jews and Genes
The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Well aware of Jews having once been the victims of Nazi eugenics policies, many Jews today have an ambivalent attitude toward new genetics and are understandably wary of genetic forms of identity and intervention. At the same time, the Jewish tradition is strongly committed to medical research designed...
A Year with the Sages
Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
A Year with the Sages uniquely relates the Sages’ understanding of each Torah portion to everyday life. The importance of these teachings cannot be overstated. The Sages, who lived during the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE, considered themselves to have inherited the oral...
by Gail Provost Stockwell, Gary Provost
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Twelve-year-old David takes his basketball along on summer vacation, hoping to find a court and some friends at the beach community. Whatever happens, he knows that he can count on Max, his grandfather, for good times and lots of laughs. He finds much more. Unexpectedly, David and Max, along with David’s...
The Zionist Idea
A Historical Analysis and Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max Nordau, Mordecai Kaplan, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion.