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Rabbi Jill Hammer has taken ancient Jewish mystical text and transformed it into a contemporary guide for meditative practice. In Return to the Place, Rabbi Hammer guides the reader through the story of creation as the ancient text of the Sefer Yetzirah draws readers in and invites them to become participants in the book's vibrant incantations, bringing the Creator's sacred energy into the world. The Sefer Yetzirah is a creation story like n...

¿¿"I can't remember the last time I felt pulled to underline a book constantly as I was reading it, but Judaism Disrupted is exactly that intellectual, spiritual and personal adventure. You will find yourself nodding, wrestling, and hoping to hold on to so many of its ideas and challenges. Rabbi Strassfeld reframes a Torah that demands breakage, reimagination, and ownership. Not only did I learn so much from Strassfeld's 11 principles, I was c...

Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism, Masorti revives Conservative Judaism, the scholarly journal of Conservative Judaism published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary between 1945 and 2014. The peer-refereed academic journal is sponsored by in an historic partnership with the five affiliated Conservative/Masorti rabbinical seminaries: the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), the Schechter Institutes, ...

From the creator of the Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah, a new siddur for the day of Shabbat. Renew Our Hearts balances tradition with innovation, featuring liturgy for morning (shacharit and a renewing approach to musaf, the "additional" service of Shabbat and festivals), afternoon (mincha), and evening (ma'ariv and havdalah), along with curated works of poetry, art and new liturgies from across the breadth of Jewish spiritual life. In the trans-d...

From the creator of the Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah, a new siddur for the day of Shabbat. Renew Our Hearts balances tradition with innovation, featuring liturgy for morning (shacharit and a renewing approach to musaf, the "additional" service of Shabbat and festivals), afternoon (mincha), and evening (ma'ariv and havdalah), along with curated works of poetry, art and new liturgies from across the breadth of Jewish spiritual life. In the trans-d...

How can we make our study of Torah not only "interesting, " but truly transformative in our own lives? In this volume of original essays on the weekly Torah portion, Rabbi Josh Feigelson guides readers on a journey that weaves together Torah, Talmud, Hasidic masters, and a diverse array of writers, poets, musicians, and thinkers. Each essay includes questions for reflection and suggestions for practices to help turn study into more mindful, in...

Psalms are our people's songs, an ancient playlist that still strikes a chord in our hearts. From lamentation to celebration, the Psalms speak to us from generation to generation. Rabbis Elie Spitz and Jack Riemer take us into a deeper exploration of the Psalms, going beyond the surface meaning of the words with new, thoughtful interpretations, taking a fresh look at these ancient texts and the relevance they can hold for us today. These conte...

For a religion that is hyper-focused on transmitting the Jewish tradition "from generation to generation" - l'dor v'dor - the notion that Millennials just aren't interested in carrying on Jewish practices or embracing the Jewish commitments of those who came before them poses quite a challenge. As a result, it seems much of the Jewish organizational world is concerned with how to engage Millennials. But there is much more work to do. Just Je...

Why aren't Millennials donating to or serving on the boards of Jewish organizations the way their parents and grandparents did?" "Why aren't Millennials joining synagogues?" "Why aren't my Millennial children doing Jewish the way I did Jewish?" "Are there any books that focus on Jewish Millennial engagement and education post-college, sharing strategies and best practices from the field?" For a religion that is hyper-focused on "l'dor v'dor"...

Michael Dylan Welch once quipped that, 'if haiku is a finger pointing at the moon, senryu is a finger poking you-or someone else-in the ribs.' In his wonderful new collection of senryu and longer poems, Robert Deluty manages to capture both the humor and pathos of these always fraught relationships - parent/child, teacher/student, doctor/patient - as in this senryu: Rose Cohen asking/ her forty-year-old gay son/ if it's a phase. In each of his...

As the twenty-first century continues to bring rapid changes to Judaism and Jewish affiliation, and as major challenges continue to mount within and well beyond the Jewish world, effective leadership increasingly requires familiarity and dexterity in multiple ethical areas: interpersonal, social, political, environmental, medical, and business. Torah, Service, Deeds presents essays on diverse approaches to the spectrum of ethical issues. Writt...

Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism, Masorti revives Conservative Judaism, the scholarly journal of Conservative Judaism published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary between 1945 and 2014. The peer-refereed academic journal is sponsored by in an historic partnership with the five affiliated Conservative/Masorti rabbinical seminaries: the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), the Schechter Institutes, ...

The study of Jewish text, over two millennia, has traditionally taken place in the Bet Midrash (the communal study hall), sitting at a table or desk. Studying the Bible has been a project of thinking, talking, contemplative reflection, and debate. There are other ways. Dr. Ora Horn Prouser, Cantor Michael Kasper, and circus artist and choreographer Ayal Prouser have joined to edit this volume which explicates their philosophy and technique as ...

Haggadah Min HaMeitzar is liturgically traditional, visually beautiful, ideologically progressive, and discursively provocative. It uses a complete traditional text and translation, paired with original commentary and art, thought-provoking quotations, and discussion prompts. The art functions as a form of commentary and provides another layer to discuss. The commentary focuses on four voices, corresponding to the four names of Passover: Chag ...

a wind has stirred my harp, and at once we are not alone in our housesof study and song" Hillel Broder reveals the poetry in the discussions in Tractate Berakhot, the first volume of the Talmud, predominantly concerned with the laws for daily blessings and prayers. His delicately distilled and shaped reflections are, in the best sense of the tradition, both prayers and poems, blessings in their own right, lyrical road maps of the meandering ...

¿¿"I can't remember the last time I felt pulled to underline a book constantly as I was reading it, but Judaism Disrupted is exactly that intellectual, spiritual and personal adventure. You will find yourself nodding, wrestling, and hoping to hold on to so many of its ideas and challenges. Rabbi Strassfeld reframes a Torah that demands breakage, reimagination, and ownership. Not only did I learn so much from Strassfeld's 11 principles, I was c...

Rabbi Hyman Babushkin has headed and cultivated a progressive religious movement, Encounter Judaism, for half a century - but as he turns 83, he has lost his wife, his prostate, and, perhaps, his faith. The loyalty of some of the key women among his cohort is wavering, his leadership is being challenged, and he is beset by fantasies of fleeing back to the ultra-Orthodox world from which he was excommunicated during the heady 1960s. What's a ...

Circle of celestial ink milk white silk light // its wane and waxing jibe with ocean flow and ebb // to cause the slightest hair to blow in wind or wave In the soft light of the moon, Betti Kahn recalls with somnambulant certainty the many oceans she has crossed during her life, the shores she reached, the people who accompanied her and have passed on - her beloved husband, siblings, parents, friends. Reaching for the dreamy, mystical, and s...

R.B. Lemberg's poems are a manifesto of memories, unearthing worlds that are gone and poignantly present: their childhood in the Soviet Union, suspended between Ukraine and the permafrost of Siberia, among the traumatized, silent, persecuted members of their Jewish family, Lemberg's coming of age in Israel, being the other wherever they go, both internally and externally, in multiple identities, languages, genders, and the arrival in "the lost...

Rabbi Jonathan Slater served for over 20 years as a core faculty member and program director for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. In that capacity, he inspired and trained a generation of rabbis, cantors, educators, and laypeople, and cultivated the field of neo-Hasidic spirituality and contemplative Jewish spiritual practice through his writing, teaching, spiritual guidance, and personal example. This volume collects the wisdom of more ...