Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 15h"You will tell them about helping traumatized evacuees settle into temporary housing in a new city, about the friendships that formed with people you would otherwise have never met, and how a traumatized girl came out of her shell for a few hours playing with a friend’s puppy." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 19hPremised on the principle that the Torah is happening now, and that its stories—from the Creation in Genesis through the death of Moses at the end of Deuteronomy—are about each individual’s life journey. "Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land" by Rabbi Shefa Gold 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Though my politics have remained consistent, I feel a pendulum swing witnessing others’ online battles. I don’t know how many times I’ve thought about posting some kind of decisive, Mercutio-like rant where I criticize everyone for their lazy, thoughtless posts." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Five hundred years ago, Rabbi Meir Ibn Gabbai’s work Avodat HaKodesh brought the opening chapters of Genesis into conversation with the kabbalistic teachings reshaping Jewish thought. 121
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How does one respond to the terror of Oct 7? For Matthew Lippman, it’s through poetry. "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman, National Jewish Book Award Shortlist www.benyehudapress.c... 000
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"If you marry someone who isn't Jewish, you'll have someone to protect you. This is who we reach herd immunity against antisemitism." 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"I will miss his teachers’ disciplinary notes, So artfully phrased and painstakingly inoffensive" "Parent/Child, Teacher/Student, Doctor/Patient: New and Selected Poems" by Robert H. Deluty #WorldTeachersDay #SupportTeachers www.benyehudapress.c... 000
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Part sermonette, part editorial cartoon, part prophecy, each two-page color spread features a Torah passage, a paragraph of commentary from both traditional and modern Jewish sources, and a photo-and-word collage that responds to the text with humor and an ethical conscience. 121
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Once again, the state gestures toward shielding us, but only after allowing the embers of hate to smoulder long enough to serve its own ends." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ben Yehuda Press's sale on Parsha books ends Oct 9th. Get 2 copies to study with a friend! www.benyehudapress.c... 010
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The work can seem insurmountable because there’s so much of it, but as Rabbi Tarfon said above, you are not 'free to desist from it.' If we attack one small thing at a time, we can tackle the ills of the world. You can dismantle a mountain stone by stone" 101
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today is the last day of Sukkot. "Torah Without End: Neo-Hasidic Teachings and Practices in Honor of Rabbi Jonathan Slater" collects the wisdom of more than 60 outstanding Jewish spiritual leaders, all teachers, colleagues, and students of Rabbi Slater. www.benyehudapress.c... 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Short, engaging stories related to the weekly Torah portion written for kids 10 to 13, accompanied by breathtaking artwork by Pete Williamson. "An Angel Called Truth and Other Tales from the Torah: Stories for the weekly portion (and Jewish holidays) for today's kids" 131
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The Talmud goes as far as to say one who goes out of their way to insert a public hazard almost has their death coming to them, seeming to treat this like some sort of act of divine comeuppance." 112
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What a gift! 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Midrash Hazak" is a collection of insightful commentaries on the weekly and holiday Torah portions written by individuals at, or approaching, the biblical span of three-score-and-ten. #InternationalDayfortheElderly www.benyehudapress.c... 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Another major theme is the relationship between humans and the ecosystem; Waskow propounds new meanings for the premise that the earth is God’s creation.” —Library Journal 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Educators struggle to 'make Judaism relatable,' to 'connect Torah to modern times.' Too often, our work is framed to us as a form of marketing." 120
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Linking debt with sin can help justify a political and economic status quo; if even God is like an unforgiving lender, then perhaps entrenched social structures of debt inequality aren’t all that bad." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Like all good poetry, Brian Rohr’s book stirs more questions than it gives answers. And like all Torah, it seeds more questions than it sprouts answers.” —Rabbi Arthur Waskow, author of Down-to-Earth Judaism "Shaken To My Bones: A Poetic Midrash on the Torah" by Brian Rohr 111
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A collection of commentaries on the weekly and holiday Torah portions written by individuals at, or approaching, the biblical span of three-score-and-ten, addressing the questions: How can we best live until we die? How do Jewish traditions and teachings inform our best lives? 111
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"There is no hint that shutting off water for lack of payment would ever be justifiable. [One can argue] that the city has a greater responsibility towards its own citizens, who have a greater sense of entitlement to the water." 132
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Delve into this book and you will be amazed! 112
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Is 'just war' even a coherent concept? What about 'Purity of Arms' (a key term in the IDF code of ethics)? The reality or impossibility of legitimate killing is an age-old debate, but it is also one of the burning moral issues of today." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We use this book as one of our tools to create a bridge with our children. And, learning together, we help them create a bridge with our shared tradition. "Torah & Company" by Judith Z. Abrams Celebrate Simchat Torah with 25% Savings! www.benyehudapress.c... 111
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The Jewish embrace of emancipation and acculturation was reflected primarily in the behaviour of Jewish men. On the other hand, due to the gender constructs of...who made this choice, Jewish women were...less affected by the tendency towards assimilation." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Giving voice to unarticulated interpretations and stories, weaving yourself into the text, is a way of claiming ownership. Rather than crouching beneath the text, we expand it." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"So what does Jewish salvation look like now? Is it just physical survival, or is something else required? What does it mean to be a “Good Jew” in a time when so much evil is done in the name of preserving the Jewish future?" 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In their search for Jewish culture, my secular compatriots get up to all sorts of weird things. They act like a social reject trying to play out what the 'cool kids do.'" 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Secrets of Creation" is mind-bending and spiritually illuminating in every sense! The symbolic vocabularies of Kabbalah, astrophysics, and art converge in most wondrous ways. What a gift! 112
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I think of this active emptiness as a type of memory." 100
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Whether you are new to studying Torah or have been studying it for a lifetime, whether you engage with it on your own, with a study partner, or in a study group, "Eternal Questions" will help you feel more at home in Jewish life and in your own life. 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"The cultural mainstream in much of the western world has a Christian underlay. This makes it a bit difficult for writing that focuses on Jewish culture." 130
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"[Mordecai] Kaplan’s Judaism refuses assimilation. It was grounded in peoplehood, in communal creativity, and in the lived, complex reality of being Jewish in the Diaspora." 221
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Secrets of Creation" combines science, Kabbalah, and art, linking together old kabbalistic and new scientific accounts of origins with the imaginative insight of the artistic eye. Bringing them together is an act of contemporary Jewish creativity. 120
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I rapped my left breast ten times; hard knuckles on soft flesh in a big hushed room. At this time I felt a rupture in myself." 121
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Immigration was and remains a Jewish issue; it would be even in the absence of any Jewish immigrants, simply because Judaism has a longstanding tradition of social justice." 151
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Based on a sensitive reading of a traditional masterpiece of Kabbalah, these three modern masters demonstrate how ancient wisdom can stimulate and enlighten us today. Delve into this book and you will be amazed! 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"As a system which acts almost exclusively to funnel wealth to the top of society, feudalism can easily be called a system where the elites of society receive on condition to receive more." 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"There are any number of challenges that come from being both halakhically observant and neurodivergent." 121
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"The same ways anti-Blackness has played out with white Jews asking how in the world Black folks could be Jewish, it manifests in this moment with them asserting that we can’t be Jewish and not support the state of Israel." 132
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Mystics, scientists, and artists have always pondered the Secrets of Creation. Here, in this marvelous book, three brilliant contemporary seekers—a mystic, a scientist, and an artist—have collaborated to produce an updated guide to these secrets. www.benyehudapress.c... 111
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"We live in troubled times, with war a constant state of the world. With failing governmental structures and questions about the world’s ongoing habitability, questions of the eschatological end times easily arise." 142
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"If we want to get to healthy relationships between human beings and with the nonhuman world, then we need to dismantle the colonial systems—still in place—that are actively preventing us from doing so." 141
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"The Exodus, the great tale of liberation, exposes the limits of the revolutionary fantasy. It's true that Pharaoh is brought low and the Jews break free from bondage, but the Torah insists this is not the end of the story." 111
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“It’s a twisty, turny little story that drew me right in and kept me turning the pages.” Read Dennis Fischman's full review of "Broken Faith: A Story of Murder, Secrets, and a Catskills Synagogue" by Mordechai Luchins here in The Sommerville Times www.thesomervilletim... 111
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Today is Star Trek Day! You can learn about Leonard Nimoy and more in "Heroes with Chutzpah: 101 True Tales of Jewish Trailblazers, Changemakers & Rebels" www.benyehudapress.c... #LiveLongAndProsper 011
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is the Forest of Lost Trees. Not only people, but also trees may uproot themselves from their ground and become befuddled out in the world. Here in the Lost Wood all those wandering, lost trees of every kind have come together. 130
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026“Here is a hero who fought for those bound in slavery. Here is the hero who led the Jews out of Egypt. Here is a third hero who liberated a country. And here is yet another hero who said that we must liberate the whole world.” —Binele by B. J. Bialostotzky 110
Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“I should pluck up my courage and go on a journey to find the Land of Endless Holiday.” 100