Judaism

"Exodus" is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the... More

The Rupa Humour series presents rib-tickling collection of jokes on choicest themes ranging from dysfunctional families to gender politics to cross border foreign affairs to judiciary to the medical establishment etc. This series is a collaboration with one of the foremost websites for humour in Ind... More

Recognized as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber's masterpiece. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for today, a new form of human being and of a good life. ... More

The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay wast... More

Many people want to realize the benefits of the Kabbalah, but don't know where to start. With hundreds of original texts and an ocean of books, the task can be daunting--but this manual offers a contemporary, accessible approach to the traditional wisdom. Basing its approach on the Tree of Life, "Th... More

Kabbalah is often associated with pop-stars, their distinctive red wrist bands, and media scepticism. In this fascinatin... More

Around 1800 BCE a man named Abraham entered the word stage in ancient Mesopotamia. He revolutionised the concept of religion, which till then, comprised mainly of Nature worship and veneration of numerous gods. Proclaiming belief in one God, his beliefs embodied the fundamental principles, ethics an... More

Using the wisdom and guidance in 10-Minute Kabbalah, you can tap into the divine energy of the universe, and can master the ancient secrets that will transform your life.... More

An accessible and engaging introduction to the philosophy of religion. Written with verve and clarity by a leading philosopher and contributor to the field Places key issues and debates in the philosophy of religion in their historical contexts, highlighting the conditions that led to the developmen... More

Rabbi David Goldberg, one of today's most respected and outspoken Jewish leaders, grapples with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness with characteristic candor. He contrasts the flexibility of the Jewish Diaspora, whose identity has been historically predicated on powerlessness, with the militant... More

Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognized alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first phil... More

A prominent rabbi shows how to apply the wisdom of the Psalms in our daily lives Traditionally attributed to King David, among others, the book of Psalms collects 150 songs in praise of the Lord-songs that contain some of the Bible's most beautiful and inspiring verses. Now, one of America's most e... More

Ignored at worst, seen as ephemeral at best, the Jewish worker remains an anomaly. The cap makers, tinsmiths, diamond workers, and shoemakers who lived on the Lower East Sides, the East Ends, the Pletzls of the major Western cities in the early years of this century have all but faded from memory in... More

This volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the pre-eminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters exchanged between the title character, an itinerant bumbler ... More

In this much-anticipated annual volume, respected intellectual and spiritual leader Michael Lerner has collected the greatest Jewish writing of the past year. A review in the "Los Angeles Times "said of Lerner's first volume, "clearly an auspicious beginning." This new collection lives up to the pro... More