Kalaniot Books announced that it will release three new children’s picture books for spring 2023:
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Pages from the “The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther (The Magerman Edition).” (Photos used with the permission of Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd.)
Biblical commentaries offer us new ways to look at the Torah text. However, there are limitations to using…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
When discussing what might be learned about the past from found objects, our first reaction might be to think of archeological sites. Scholars study the remains of former cultures to learn how people behaved and to hypothesize what life might have been like during t…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Scholarly works about the Bible can approach the text in a variety of ways. Some are interested in when the work, as we know it, came into being. Others are fascinated by the various strands they see in the text and attribute them to different authors. Two recent wo…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
When writing Jewish fiction, one important consideration is the general tone of the work. Of course, that decision may be partly based on when a particular story or novel was written. Take, for example, Siegfried Kapper’s “Tales of the Prague Ghetto” (Karolinu…
