After we buried our father, the moon came nearest earth’s center, resplendent in its wholeness, most expansive night of all other nights, the ...

I was inspired to begin this project by my friend Jess Spencer, who spent a year writing a poem for every parsha.  Every week I learned the parsha ...

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

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

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook was the first Chief Rabbi of Palestine, and the 20th century's most important Orthodox Jewish mystic.

The Canvas and Other Stories by Salomea Perl  is a bilingual Yiddish-English text featuring the only known stories Perl wrote and published in the various Yiddish newspapers ...

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 ...

“Shabbat arrives as usual, dressed in silk with her hair and make-up beautifully arranged.” So begins The Sabbath Bee by Wilhelmina ...

The story of Hillel, frozen near-to-death on the snowy roof of the Study Hall, is well-known. In its details, however, the story is impossible. No one ...

"There's much to atone for in how I manage my world:  The absence of a god is no excuse." Herb Levine writes spiritual Jewish poems from ...