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These essays are from the Hebrew/English Koren Yizkor: Memory & Meaning. The collection of essays by Rabbi Norman Lamm discuss themes of Yizkor, memory, and mourning for the different holidays. . The book is published under the Koren logo in partnership with YU.

For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the Torah is the essential guidebook to human life. In this highly acclaimed fivevolume collection of essays, Rabbi Riskin explores the weekly Torah readings, mining the text for lessons both timeless and contemporary, fundamentally Jewish and deeply personal.

Mikra and Meaning is a collection of essays by a leading Bible teacher who employs a contemporary, literary-theological method to examine biblical narratives from the life of Abraham to the trials of the Jewish people in their desert journey, with an emphasis on the narratives of Bemidbar. Includes a foreword by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and an introduction by Rabbi Yoel Bin Nun.

This classic work analyzes and embraces the tension between Torah study and secular learning by exploring the philosophies of Moses Maimonides, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Abraham Isaac Kook and other influential Jewish thinkers. Challenging, illuminating and synthesizing, it offers a seminal mission statement...

The rabbis and professors of Yeshiva University come together in this latest volume of the Mitokh Ha-Ohel (Within the Tent) series to present scholarly and insightful essays on the Shabbat prayers. Like its three companion volumes, Mitokh Ha-Ohel on Shabbat Prayers offers essays by many of Yeshiva University's most esteemed rabbis and scholars.

The rabbis and professors of Yeshiva University have come together in two volumes of Mitokh Ha-Ohel (Within the Tent) to present scholarly and insightful essays on the weekly Torah and Haftara readings. Edited by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern, Mitokh Ha-Ohel offers the insightful and...

These essays are from the Koren Yom Ha'atzmaut Mahzor. They are a unique collection by leading scholars in the world of Religious Zionism. The essays explore the theological, philosophical, and halakhic implications of the modern State of Israel. Contributors include: R. Yehuda Amital (zt"l),...

The Prime Ministers is the first and only insider account of Israeli politics from the founding of the Jewish State to the near-present day. It reveals stunning details of life-and-death decision-making, top-secret military operations and high level peace negotiations. The Prime Ministers brings readers...

When Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad-Lubavitch consisted of a small group of Chasidim recovering from near annihilation in the Holocaust. During his forty years of leadership, Rabbi Schneerson transformed Chabad into a global movement marked by extensive outreach...

Rabbi Berel Wein – rabbi and historian, writer and lecturer, kashrut supervisor and rosh yeshiva – looks back at the dramatic events of his life. From religious controversies and educational dilemmas, through challenges of community building and synagogue politics, to encounters with great rabbis...

A new English language edition of a very popular Hebrew book – the first time Hebrew literature’s only Nobel laureate has had his stories rendered in graphic form. These three tales (which retain Agnon’s original prose) rendered in “comics” form, are among the most beloved by Israeli children...

In this now-classic Holocaust memoir, Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer recounts his survival of the Nazi camps. Clinging fiercely to his faith in God, the nineteen-year-old Unsdorfer faced the unspeakable horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald with courage and moral defiance, a testament to the abiding strength of the Jewish spirit.

To a large degree, In Mr. Lublin’s Store sums up Agnon’s thematic and formal development. This novel is also a prime example of an objective correlative for a world that is out of joint—a world where a plot is no longer possible because impersonal forces deriving from the setting where it takes...

During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself when the ring was broken by Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? A Strange Death is the answer to this. But it is many...