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What would Genesis be without the letter E? Initial Instructions is a fresh rendering of the Bible's beginning with an unusual twist: It uses only 25 letters of the English alphabet. Initial Instructions strikes words like "the, " "beginning", "created, " "heavens, " and "earth" from its lexicon. Instead, Rabbi Joseph Prouser finds original ways to render ancient meanings, revealing The Book of Genesis in a new way. Why undertake t...

Part memoir, part commentary, Life on the Fringes charts a startling Jewish feminist journey both solitary and engaging. Haviva Ner-David draws us into the many facets of her life's story: a complex modern Orthodox childhood (including a battle with anorexia), adherence to a unique combination of Jewish observances, the emergence of her feminist commitments and support of gays and lesbians in Jewish life, a serious engagement with Jewish texts...

Award-winning Talmud teacher Judith Abrams brings her love of Jewish tradition to the musical stage in this new musical drama. Rachel's bat mitzvah is nearing, and fights with her mother are heating up. Will the ceremony marking Rachel's coming of age instead tear apart her family? Assistance comes from an unlikely source: a friendly time-traveling angel who transports Rachel nearly 2, 000 years to the ancient world of Talmudic Israel. ...

What do you do when it's late on a Friday afternoon, you're a practicing Orthodox Jew, and your father lies dying in a hospital? This is the dilemma that opens With An Outstretched Arm. The directive to "honor your parents" and the injunction to "guard the Sabbath" become metaphors for the conflict between the author's lifelong desire to please her father and her more recent commitment to ancient traditions that he disdains.With An Outstretche...

An enduring novel about the flowering of love in the ruins of Berlin, 1945.

It has been barely 40 years since rabbinical seminaries began ordaining women as rabbis. But women have played a role in Jewish religious leadership from the days of the Bible and even before. Miriam the Prophetess and Deborah the Judge are just the two most prominent of these women, most of whose names are lost to history. The Hebrew Priestess tells the stories of these women, often reading between the lines of the Bible and Talmud to redisco...

Torah as a guide to personal growth Following the framework of the ancient tradition of weekly Torah reading, Shefa Gold shows us how to find blessing, challenge and the opportunity for spiritual transformation in each portion of Torah. An inspiring guide to exploring the landscape of Scripture... and recognizing that landscape as the story of your life. Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land promises to turn the year-long cycle o...

Bible study in the spirit of modern and open Orthodox Judaism.

According to the mystics, the Torah was engraved with black fire on white fire. These poetic midrash too." - Jay Michaelson, author of The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual PathIn his piercing debut collection, The House at the Center of the World, poet and scholar Abe Mezrich offers a series of beautifully composed short insights on some of the most elusive passages of the Torah: the second half of Exodus, the entirety of Leviticus, an...

From Genesis to Deuteronomy, from Bereshit to Zot Haberacha, from Eden to Gaza, from Eve to Emma Goldman, we who desire interweaves the mythic and the mundane as it follows the arc of the Torah with carefully chosen words, astute observations, and deep emotion."we who desire began as daily writing practice, a poem on the weekly Torah portion. I refined, edited, slashed, leaving only those words that tell a story, the real story of creation and...

This volume of contemporary liturgical poetry is both a poetry collection and an aid to devotional prayer. Open My Lips dips into the deep well of Jewish tradition and brings forth renewed and renewing adaptations of, and riffs on, classical Jewish liturgy. Here are poems for weekday and Shabbat, festival seasons (including the Days of Awe and Passover), and psalms of grief and praise. Open My Lips offers a clear, readable, heartfelt point of ...

What values are most important to us? What is true strength? What constitutes real kindness? How and when can the average 21st century family discuss these questions? There are few opportunities for parents and children to think together about values and spirituality in our always-on, very connected and busy culture. This books invites parents, teens and school-aged children to indulge together in meaningful conversation during the...

the dramatic adventure tale of seven Israeli children who are saved from a sinking ship and reach a deserted island in their lifeboat. On this tiny island, which they name Tarshish, they battle danger and confront unusual challenges with courage and ingenuity. During their months of shipwreck, the children survive in nature, observe all the Jewish holidays, and create a miniature Torah community.

The dramatic adventure tale of seven Israeli children who are saved from a sinking ship and reach a deserted island in their lifeboat. On this tiny island, which they name Tarshish, they battle danger and confront unusual challenges with courage and ingenuity. During their months of shipwreck, the children survive in nature, observe all the Jewish holidays, and create a miniature Torah community. The second volume in a two-volume series.

Rabbi Judith Abrams draws from her rich knowledge of the Jewish tradition to create a discussion guide for the weekly Torah portion.

The concept of pluralism - embracing Jews from across the religious spectrum - is the wave of the future in the Jewish community… but the Academy for Jewish Religion has been living pluralism for 60 years. Pluralism has always been in its DNA. In 1956, at the height of denominationalism, the founders of the Academy for Jewish Religion realized that the future of the Jewish People was in acceptance and inclusiveness, cherishing and learning fro...

In Jews vs Zombies, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from BSFA Award winner Adam Roberts to best-selling author Sarah Lotz, all asking, for the first time, the question you didn't even know you wanted answered - what happens when the Chosen People meet the Living Dead?

In Jews vs Aliens, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from Orange Prize winner Naomi Alderman to Big Bang Theory writer/producer Eric Kaplan, all asking, for the first time, the question you didn't even know you wanted answered - what happens when the aliens arrive, only to encounter... Jews?

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Why are so many baby boomers tuned into a quest for spirituality? How did growing up with the Bomb influence a generation's view of science and spirit? What effects did psychedelic drugs have on American spirituality? What is the difference between open-mindedness and gullibility? Is God a necessary part of a religious life? Is atheism merely a negation of religious belief, or is it something more? Waiting for God challenges us to b...