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All the Seas Were Ink, describing how the daily routine of Talmud study carried her through challenging years in her own life—and her book inspired many less-traditional people who had previously assumed that Talmud study wasn’t for them.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Daf Yomi, the “world’s largest book club,”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
the coming extinction of the Jews.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda has paved the way;
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“Can a man be a Tzaddik Ha-Dor but live hidden from himself and
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Today, the phrase “the chosen people” is often paired with its complement, “the people who choose.”
Anita Diamant • Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
Born in 1856 in Ukraine (four years before Herzl’s birth), Asher Zvi Ginzberg took on the pen name Ahad Ha’am (“One of the People”), by which he is
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
In Man’s Quest for God, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that a melody is even more powerful than words.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
In an age of death and destruction, Rabbi Yohanan taught that a fundamental religious response was to increase loving-kindness and multiply life itself.