This month’s selections come from International Retail Manager and wannabe chef, Alex Drucker. Alex Drucker is the International Retail Manager for Koren Publishers. Originally from London, he made aliya from Hong Kong in 2016 with his family and now lives in Modi’in with his wife and 3 children (each one born in a different country). …
The Noé Edition Koren Talmud Bavli is now available in its entirety. To celebrate this historical achievement and to recognize the upcoming Siyum HaShas we encourage anyone and everyone to begin their own journey into Talmud learning no matter your current learning level. Talmud learning may appear to be intimidating and foreign. Maybe you haven’t learned…
Seasons of Nobility is a selection of Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine’s sermons on the Jewish holidays and special Shabbatot, transcribed from his manuscripts dating from 1982 to 2011. Drawing upon the author’s deep reservoir of Torah knowledge, the sermons offer original insights into the laws, customs, prayers, and public readings of the Jewish festivals. These stirring…
Koren Sacks Maḥzorim for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur These utterly transformed my ḥagim. Rabbi Sacks’ gorgeous and elegant translations, inspiring commentaries and – perhaps most of all – incredibly intelligent and incisive introductory essays to each of the Holidays gave me new perspectives I had…
The thirst for spirituality and meaning is a defining characteristic of our times. A societal shift is taking place, one that emphasizes experience, feeling, and imagination. Be, Become, Bless presents a Jewish approach to transforming the way we see and live our lives. In these pages, Rabbi Yakov Nagen uses the weekly parasha as a springboard to converse with both Eastern spirituality…
Looking for some inspiration for the High Holidays? Revamping your Jewish library? Just like to know what’s new and available? Check out our Top 10 New Releases Fall 2019 Palestine Posts: An Eyewitness Account of the Birth of Israel by: Daniel S. Chertoff Mordecai Chertoff came to Palestine in 1947 as a twenty-five-year-old, determined to…
Every month a different member of our team tells us about some of their favorite titles or gives their recommendations for books that you may have missed, but certainly deserve your attention. Meet the people who make the books you love and find out which are their favorites. Tani Bayer is the Art Director at…
Koren Publishers: Tell us about yourself. Alex Israel: I live in Gush Etzion and teach Tanakh in Jerusalem. I am lucky enough to teach in several wonderful frameworks, teaching students aged 18 to 80 and from a diverse set of backgrounds. I teach Modern Orthodox gap-year students at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Midreshet Lindenbaum. I…
Yossi Pollak is Koren’s director of sales for the Northeast US (and Atlanta) and has been with Koren for almost 6 years. Yossi is a former pulpit rabbi who served shuls in Westport, CT, the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and Washington, DC and was the first person hired to work full time for Koren…
The following is an excerpt taken from Maggid Books‘ Derashot Ledorot series concerning this week’s Parashat HaShavua: Balak “From Curse to Blessing”- From a sermon given by Rabbi Norman Lamm on July 10, 1954 The opening verse in the daily order of public prayer is the familiar “Ma tovu ohalekha Ya’akov, mishkenotekha Yisrael,” “How good…