Named after Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s own sharp self-description, Vulture in a Cage is the most extensive collection of the eleventh-century Hebrew poet’s works ever to be published in English. Here, vital poems of praise, lament, and complaint sit along­side devotional poetry, love poetry, descrip­tive meditations on nature, and epigrams. Obsessed with the impediments of the body and the material world, Ibn Gabirol ambitiously dreamed of breaking through corporeal constraints and launching...

Reading Genesis: Beginnings, edited by Beth Kissileff, gathers intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to create an original constellation of modern readings of Genesis: a scientist of appetite on Eve’s eating behavior; law professors on contracts and collective punishment; an anthropologist on the nature of human strife in the Cain and Abel story; political scientists on the nature of Biblical games, Abraham's resistance, and collective action.

Judaism as we know it is a western Roman religion, argues Rabbi Burton Visotzky. Yes, the very empire that destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE served as the culture in which Judaism was nurtured and became the religion of the rabbis that we still celebrate today.

Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food Roger Horowitz (Columbia University Press, 2016) Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manischewitz wine became the first kosher product to win over non-Jewish consumers (principally...

Leadership in the Bible: A Practical Guide for Today. A Discussion with Coauthor Dr. David Arnow.

A Discussion with author Dr. Richard Kalmin.

Catalog Of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts In The Library Of The Jewish Theological Seminary by Dr. Vera Basch Moreen.

Author Mel Scult is a professor emeritus of Jewish Thought at Brooklyn College, where he was a member of the department of Judaic Studies and directed the program in Religion.

Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School tells the forgotten story of Hamburg's emergence as a center of that early 20th-century intellectual world.

Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel's and God's Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants combines a close reading of texts in the Deuteronomic, Priestly, and Holiness traditions with analysis of ritual and scrutiny of the different terminology regarding memory that is used in each tradition.

Dr. Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," illuminating both its timeless message and crucial position in the history of civil rights.

Novelist Dara Horn, the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards, delivered a JTS Library Book Talk on November 11, 2013, on her new book, "A Guide For The Perplexed: A Novel."

Maggie Anton, the award-winning author of the historical fiction series Rashi’s Daughters and Rav Hisda’s Daughter, a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history, and an esteemed lecturer, gave this Library Book Talk at JTS on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. Rav Hisda’s Daughter re-creates the life of one of the most frequently mentioned women in the Talmud. Says Blu Greenberg, founding president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, “This is more than a touching...

Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism A Discussion with Dr. Jonathan Klawans, Author JTS, March 19, 2013, 7:30 PM

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, Stern College for Women – Yeshiva University,discusses her work Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders