When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman. Slotkin, a ...

The family Torah first showed up in the mid-1960s, when according to family lore, my grandfather Emanuel Sokoloff bought it for the new sanctuary at Temple Beth Emet in Anaheim. I like to think of it ...

A fifth and final approach sits comfortably next to the approach of female academic scholarship and classical genre writing in that it too simultaneously centers women’s voices and positions women as ...

A scarce early Hebrew publication I acquired recently was written and published despite extraordinary difficulties and hardships that the author, and came about as a result of his herculean efforts.

Rabbi David Kasher, associate rabbi at IKAR, is a self-described “Torah nerd.” For five years, he kept up a weekly parsha blog and became totally immersed in Torah commentary. He had books open all ...

But it wasn’t always this way. Before the age of print, Torah texts were scarce, fragile, and painstakingly copied by hand. Even the most foundational works, such as Rashi’s commentary, circulated in ...

When firefighters cleared Beth Israel Synagogue after an arson attack this month, the library floor was slick with water and ...

(JTA) — When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman.