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  • Essential Judaism

    A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs & Rituals

    You’ll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide to the religious traditions, everyday practices, philosophical beliefs, and historical foundations of Judaism.What happens at a synagogue service? What are the rules for keeping kosher? How do I light the Hanukah candles? What is in the Hebrew Bible? What do the Jewish holidays signify? What ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Jesus in the Talmud

    Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schäfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity.The ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Necessity of Exile

    Essays from a Distance

    by Shaul Magid ...
    A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Gift Edition

    The bestselling Holocaust memoir about finding purpose and strength in times of despair—selected as a Library of Congress “10 Most Influential Books in America”This stunning gift edition of “one of the great books of our time” (Harold S. Kushner) features new photos, end papers, and Frankl’s never-before-published speeches and letters.Hailed as “an enduring work of survival literature” by the New ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Three Worlds

    Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

    by Avi Shlaim ...
    In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel.'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMESToday the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.Why so? One explanation speaks of the timeless clash between Arab and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • A New English Translation of the Septuagint

    The Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation of Jewish sacred writings) is of great importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. The first translation of the books of the Hebrew Bible (plus additions) into the common language of the ancient Mediterranean world made the Jewish scriptures accessible to many outside Judaism. Not only did the Septuagint become Holy Writ to Greek ... Read more

    $40.99 USD $29.99 USD

  • Kill Religion! The Deserved Death of Faith

    The Mad Religion Series, #2

    Series Book 2 - The Mad Religion Series
    Have you ever wondered why people have faith? Why don't they choose not to have faith? How does it help you to believe things for which no reasons or evidence can be provided? Is faith pure wish fulfillment? Is it social conditioning, brainwashing, mind control? Imagine a world where no one had ever heard of Moses, the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed, but everyone had heard of Pythagoras, Socrates, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Amen Effect

    Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

    by Sharon Brous ...
    **The national bestsellerFrom one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.**In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Story of the Scrolls

    The miraculous discovery and true significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Palestine, in 1947 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and hidden in caves by an ancient Jewish sect, these mysterious manuscripts revolutionized our understanding of the Bible, of Judaism and the early Christian world.Geza Vermes is the world's leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, whose ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha

    Edited by Gerbern S. Oegema ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha addresses the Old Testament Apocrypha, known to be important early Jewish texts that have become deutero-canonical for some Christian churches, non-canonical for other churches, and that are of lasting cultural significance. In addition to the place given to the classical literary, historical, and tradition-historical introductory questions, essays focus on the ... Read more

    $148.99 USD

  • Muhammad

    A Prophet for Our Time

    The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing ReligionMuhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss Islam as fanatical and violent, Armstrong offers a ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Story of the Jews

    Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

    by Simon Schama ...
    Series Book 1 - Story of the Jews
    In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the pbs and bbc series The Story of the Jews—simon schama details the story of the jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the new world in 1492It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance in the face of destruction, of creativity in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Why the Jews?

    The Reason for Antisemitism

    From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, a compelling discussion of the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Bible's Cutting Room Floor

    The Holy Scriptures Missing from Your Bible

    The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone knew. Some passages were even omitted by accident.In The Bible's Cutting Room Floor, acclaimed author and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Irrevocable Calling

    Israel's Role as a Light to the Nations

    Shows how the Jewish people are still the chosen people and continue to be called to bring blessing to the world today. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Were Just People

    Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust

    Hitler’s attempt to murder all of Europe’s Jews almost succeeded. One reason it fell short of its nefarious goal was the work of brave non-Jews who sheltered their fellow citizens. In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to more Jews than any other country at the start of World War II and location of six German-built death camps ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Making of Jewish Universalism

    From Exile to Alexandria

    This book explores two kinds of universalist thought that circulated among Jews in the Greco-Roman world. The first, which is founded on the idea that all people may worship the One True God in an engaged and sustained manner, originates in biblical prophetic literature. The second, which underscores a common ethic that all people share, arose in the second century bce. This study offers one ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • A New Hasidism: Roots

    Neo-Hasidism applies the Hasidic masters’ spiritual insights—of God’s presence everywhere, of seeking the magnificent within the everyday, in doing all things with love and joy, uplifting all of life to become a vehicle of God’s service—to contemporary Judaism, as practiced by men and women who do not live within the strictly bounded world of the Hasidic community.This first-ever anthology of Neo ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Book of Enoch Prophet

    (with introductions by R. A. Gilbert and Lon Milo DuQuette)

    This new edition of The Book of Enoch, banned by Christian authorities and thought lost for millennia, features a new introduction by bestselling author and expert on mysticism and the occult, Lon Milo DuQuette. The Book of Enoch is important more for what it is rather than for what it says, explains DuQuette. It could be argued that it, more than any other single document, is responsible for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Days of Awe

    Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians

    by Atalia Omer ...
    For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegiances to Israel. How did that transformation come about? What does it mean for the future of Judaism?In Days of Awe, Atalia Omer examines this shift ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings

    The Schocken Bible, Volume II

    Series series The Schocken Bible
    The story of ancient Israel, from the arrival in Canaan to the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and the Babylonian exile some six centuries later, here is the highly anticipated second volumein Everett Fox’s landmark translation of the Hebrew Bible.The personalities who appear in the pages of The Early Prophets, and the political and moral dilemmas their stories illuminate, are part of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Abraham Joshua Heschel

    A Life of Radical Amazement

    Series series Jewish Lives
    A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice“When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.” So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in the 1965 Selma civil rights march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Heschel, who spoke with a fiery moralistic fervor, dedicated his ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On Repentance and Repair

    Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

    Winner NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS in Contemporary Jewish Life & PracticeMyra H. Kraft Memorial AwardA crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture's most painful and unresolved issues.American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator’s obligations or recompense for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD