Ben Yehuda Press

Karimah, a charming, headstrong Jewish teenager in 11th Century Egypt, follows her heart to live a life of adventure; as a brigand targeting desert caravans and as a pirate on the high seas. Rabbi...

Award-winning Talmud teacher Judith Abrams brings her love of Jewish tradition to the musical stage in this new musical drama. Rachel's bat mitzvah is nearing, and fights with her mother are heating...

For the first time, the writings of one of the 20th century's most important Hasidic thinkers are made available to a non-Hasidic English audience. Rabbi Ahron "Ahrele" Roth (1894-1944) was born into...

Zackary Sholem Berger is a poet, a Yiddish translator, a doctor. In this volume, he is also an observant Jew visiting other people's holy places and an American city dweller among the poets of...

Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal is a book for mourners, for those who will someday become mourners, and for those anticipating their own journey out of this life. It offers...

"Bits and pieces / scraps / what's left on the barber shop floor / after a haircut / before the barber sweeps up"In this unsentimental poetic memoir, award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz...

In her first book, Life on the Fringes, Haviva Ner-David described her quest to become an Orthodox rabbi, to serve God the same way men traditionally did. Now, Rabbi Ner-David tunes in to an aspect...

Chrysalis Summer" by Suzanne Brody is a collection of poetry that delves into the transformative experiences of growth, education, and personal relationships. Through a series of poignant and...

Psalms are our people's songs, an ancient playlist that still strikes a chord in our hearts. From lamentation to celebration, the Psalms speak to us from generation to generation.Rabbis Elie Spitz...

A fresh look at Biblical characters through the lens of disability.Ora Horn Prouser shows how the symptoms of ADHD, depression, mental retardation, speech impediments, gifted learning, and physical...

What more could I ask for than a chair at your bright yellow table, high as clear skies, pine trees, and the dusty red roofs of Jerusalem.Lori Levy's delicate poems oscillate vividly between the...

Two Jews, three arguments - as the saying goes. But what kinds of topics have Jews disagreed about historically, in the present day, and potentially also in the future? Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz...

"A well-written, balanced historical study which examines all aspects of the gradual emancipation of France's Jews during the Revolution. Comprehensive and comprehensible, this study investigates the...

Long-time Forward columnist David Klinghoffer argues in a new book that "God commands you to be a conservative." This book begs to differ, offering deeper readings of the Torah and Talmud to make the...

Stories of a Jewish life from a Galitzianer shtetl to a Florida condiminium, told by an award-winning storyteller. "Her writing has a lively, spoken word rhythm, as if she is the raconteur in your...

You don't have to be a mystic to enjoy Rabbi Shefa Gold's new commentary on the Song of Songs, but it may make you into one. Rather than address herself to the reader, she speaks directly, and...

In Jews vs Aliens, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from Orange Prize winner Naomi...

In Jews vs Zombies, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from BSFA Award winner Adam Roberts...

"Why aren't Millennials donating to or serving on the boards of Jewish organizations the way their parents and grandparents did?""Why aren't Millennials joining synagogues?""Why aren't my Millennial...

Israel education has been taking on an increasing high profile in the Jewish community. But is it effective? Can old messages speak to a new generation? Or is a new approach called for? LOVING THE...

Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism, Masorti revives Conservative Judaism, the scholarly journal of Conservative Judaism published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological...

Imagine your Passover Seder as a conversation. Imagine asking your children questions that spark discussion. In "More Than Four Questions," master educator Sharon Black has collected questions asked...

We are, thank God, living in a generation where frum gay Jews are asking halakhic questions. Rabbi Fox's teshuva addresses the foundational question of intimate physical behavior between two women...

Not Akhmatova" is a collection of poems that engage in dialogue with the work of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, exploring themes of diaspora, identity, and language through adaptation and response. The...

he swam way out past the shadows cast / by the steel towers of the indifferent gray bridge / shielding the traffic flowing rhythmically back and / forth, far above the little dead lighthouse that...

"Michael Dylan Welch once quipped that, 'if haiku is a finger pointing at the moon, senryu is a finger poking you-or someone else-in the ribs.' In his wonderful new collection of senryu and longer...

I was inspired to begin this project by my friend Jess Spencer, who spent a year writing a poem for every parsha. Every week I learned the parsha on Sefaria, trying to achieve the most holistic and...

While the poems in this collection are inspired by the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, the cartoon mouse of the author's childhood, they are gut-wrenching in their examination of the American dream...

"Business as usual" is leading us down a path of rising economic suffering, societal division, and climate crisis. A new approach promises socially responsible investing by looking at "environmental,...

Seeking the Hiding God" by Arnold Eisen examines the elusive nature of God and the significance of divine encounters through the lens of Jewish rituals and traditions. The book explores the...