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Examining the entire span of Jewish history by focusing on thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people's experience from biblical times through the present - essentially the most important events in the life of the Jewish people - Turning Points in Jewish History provides ""the big picture"": both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish people's historical experience.

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut''s classic second volume on the history of the Jewish Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the original writings that shaped the second century of organized liberal Judaism. The Growth of Reform Judaism features a new introduction, a new epilogue, and important additional primary sources documenting the profound changes of the last fifty years.Although the emphasis in this volume is chiefly on the American scene, where the movement had its most notable advances, selections of representative liberal Jewish thought in Europe and to a lesser degree in Israel are included as well. These selections help us to understand the emergence and character, problems and tensions of Reform Judaism as it developed and grew in modern times. In addition to the primary texts new to this edition, David Ellenson''s epilogue considers the developments of the last fifty years that have continued to shape the course of Reform Judaism.Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut (1912-2012) was a longtime rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. The author of more than twenty books on Jewish theology, history, and culture, he is best known for The Torah: A Modern Commentary. Rabbi Jacob K. Shankman (1904-86) was the rabbi of Temple Israel of New Rochelle, New York, and a leader in Reform Judaism. Rabbi Howard A. Berman is the executive director of the Society for Classical Reform Judaism. He lectures at congregations throughout the country on behalf of the society and teaches regularly at Hebrew Union College. Rabbi David Ellenson is chancellor and past president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the author of Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity (JPS, 2014).

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut's classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871.

This book focuses on the forces, events, and personalities that over the past 150 years have shaped the Jewish communities of the Arab world, changing the relations between Jews and Arabs more radically than anything since the rise of Islam nearly 1400 years ago.

In 2004, Mayer Gruber's landmark "Rashi's Commentary on Psalms" made one of the 11th-century scholar's most important works accessible to a larger audience for the first time. This volume includes the complete original Hebrew text and the English translation and supercommentary.

Sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzberg's classic, The Zionist Idea, Gil Troy explores the backstories, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionaries from the 1800s to today.

Rashi, the medieval French rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105), authored monumental commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian Talmud. With The JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary, his commentary on the Torah - regarded as the most authoritative of all Torah commentaries - is finally accessible to the entire Jewish community.

Presents a selection of the Torah teachings of the Sefat Emet - one of the last great masters of Polish Hasidism. This book focuses on the words of the Sefat Emet which create a remarkable work of Jewish scholarship.

The modern Jew, living in a world of shattered beliefs and competing ideologies, is often confronted with questions of faith. In forthright, non-technical language, the author addresses the most difficult theological questions of our time and shows that there are still viable Jewish answers for even the greatest skeptics.

Demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous influence on Jewish thought and law and also laid the basis for Christian ethics and the broader development of modern Western civilization. Jeremiah Unterman shows us persuasively that the ethics of the Jewish Bible represents a moral advance over Ancient Near East cultures.

In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like "lambs to the slaughter".

A fascinating memoir of one of Judaism's earliest female writers, translated from the original Yiddish, Gluckel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve, she wrote the riveting memoir that would become a timeless classic, revealing much about Jewish life in seventeenth-century Germany.

The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary traditions. Written in clear and accessible language, this volume presents thirty such traditions.

First published 500 years ago as the ""Rabbinic Bible"", the biblical commentaries known as Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers.

Offers an exploration of Genesis. This title presents stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Rachel, and Joseph. It illuminates the tensions that grip human beings as they search for and encounter God.

A guide to understanding Jewish traditions. This title comes with ready to answer questions about almost all aspects of Jewish life and practice: life-cycle events, holidays, ritual and prayer, Jewish traditions and customs.

A dictionary that contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English. It includes words for and associated with Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history, the Bible and other sacred texts, worship, and more.