Rabbi Simon Glazer of this city has translated Maimonides’ Mishne Torah into English, which will be published by the Hebrew Publishing Company of New York. The first two books will be published in one ...

While most books containing commentaries on the bible either focus on all five books of the Torah or just one of the five books, and then gives only the commentaries of about a dozen commentators as ...

For the previous Hanukkah essays, click here. For a film about Rabbi Shapira zts"l, click here. The Greeks’ main battle was in the spiritual realm: “To cause the Jewish people to forget Hashem’s Torah ...

Alter has just produced a major revisionist translation of the first five books of the Bible that would have the cosmos begin with a more conversational clause: “When God began to create heaven and ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...

Four books of Jewish interest, in addition to the Jewish Publication Society’s recently issued English translation of the Tcrah are on the list of books on religion among the 1, 780 titles compiled ...

Amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, whose end remains out of sight-and as part of the country’s broader shift from Russian to Ukrainian-an unprecedented project has just been completed: ...

JTA — A new Biblical translation that eschews gendered pronouns for God is now available through Sefaria, the online library of Jewish texts, prompting backlash on social media from some who see the ...