The Jewish Publication Society imprint: 96 books
Nitsavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20) and Haftarah (Isaiah 61:10-63:9)
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the...
Va-yetse' (Genesis 28:10-32:3) and Haftarah (Hosea 12:13-14:10)
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
*Va-yetse' (Genesis 28:10-32:3) and Haftarah (Hosea 12:13-14:10): *The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet...
Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) and Haftarah (Isaiah 54:11-55:5)
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and substantial, direct and informative. The narrative summaries, “big” ideas, model divrei Torah, haftarot commentaries,...
The Torah
The Five Books of Moses, the New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
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The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources, is acclaimed for its fidelity to the ancient Hebrew.
by Michael Carasik
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for...
Portraits of Our Past
Jews of the German Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
An absorbing look at the daily lives of rural Jews in eighteenth and nineteenth century Germany. Includes over 75 black and white illustrations, a guide for researchers, maps, and a bibliography.
A Passover Haggadah
Go Forth and Learn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Hebrew and English text with new commentary and essays. Rabbi Silber has given us two books in one: the Haggadah itself, in English and Hebrew, with his seder commentary and a collection of essays that provide close readings of the classic biblical and rabbinic texts that inform Seder-night ritual and...
Joseph
Portraits through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The complex and dramatic story of Joseph is the most sustained narrative in Genesis. Many call it a literary masterpiece and a story of great depth that can be read on many levels. In a lucid and engaging style, Alan T. Levenson brings the voices of Philo, Josephus, Midrash, and medieval commentators,...
Eight Questions of Faith
Biblical Challenges That Guide and Ground Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Eight Questions of Faith is a spiritual exploration of some of life’s biggest questions—questions that have been asked by prophets and kings, mystics and sinners—that continue to be asked by every one of us today.
Niles Elliot Goldstein uses eight questions found in the Bible to explore...
Path of the Prophets
The Ethics-Driven Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Illuminating the ethical legacy of the biblical prophets, Path of the Prophets identifies the prophetic moment in the lives of eighteen biblical figures and demonstrates their compelling relevance to us today.
While the Bible almost exclusively names men as prophets, Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz...
The Lost Matriarch
Finding Leah in the Bible and Midrash
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Lost Matriarch offers a unique response to the sparse and puzzling biblical treatment of the matriarch Leah. Although Leah is a major figure in the book of Genesis, the biblical text allows her only a single word of physical description and two lines of direct dialogue. The Bible tells us little...
Jonah and the Meaning of Our Lives
A Verse-by-Verse Contemporary Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Book of Jonah stands unique among the biblical books of the prophets because it is almost entirely narrative. And, in contrast to all the other prophets portrayed as admirable individuals who bravely speak God’s word, Jonah stands out as flawed and fleeing from God. We are drawn to Jonah because...