Books
How do we reach estranged Jews with a Torah message in this post-Oprah world of self-help spirituality?
The past few years have seen a revival of the Israeli conversion dilemma, in which the status of people who…
The application of Shabbat laws to contemporary circumstances is no simple task. So much of daily life has changed over…
Rabbi Daniel Sperber, professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, rose to fame with the publication of his widely acclaimed and…
Anyone reading the news regularly sees images and stories of Orthodox Jews, occasionally even rabbis, misbehaving.
Vision and Valor: An Illustrated History of the Talmud By Berel Wein Maggid Books Jerusalem, 2010 255 pages + xiv…
For a book on prayer to be successful, it has to be smart but not too smart. A book that…
For many people, engaging in modern Biblical scholarship means ignoring all previous attempts to understand the Bible. Recent trends, however,…
Halachah, Jewish law, evolves but only in a limited way. It has a static core whose applications and many details…
The former Israeli prime minister, Levi Eshkol, was very busy and tried to avoid meeting an American philanthropist, but couldn’t.…
To truly understand a special child, one must seek to understand the perspective of the child himself, as well as
