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"The well-attended event also sought to dispel the stigma that surrounds addiction in the Jewish community as well as provide hope to all those touched by addiction."
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Applying the Wisdom of Mussar to Address Addiction
JF&CS and The Temple hosted a special event on Oct. 28 to celebrate a new book on recovery from a pair of Atlantans.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"The well-attended event also sought to dispel the stigma that surrounds addiction in the Jewish community as well as provide hope to all those touched by addiction."
Read it all here:
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"The gathering was a moment of awareness and inspiration, illuminating both the profound impact of addiction within the Jewish community and the promise of Mussar as a spiritual path to healing, wholeness, and recovery.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"The gathering was a moment of awareness and inspiration, illuminating both the profound impact of addiction within the Jewish community and the promise of Mussar as a spiritual path to healing, wholeness, and recovery.
Nice Atlanta Jewish Times report of the book launch for Mussar in Recovery: A Jewish Spiritual Path to Serenity & Joy.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Nice Atlanta Jewish Times report of the book launch for Mussar in Recovery: A Jewish Spiritual Path to Serenity & Joy.
Can Judaism Be Saved? invites readers to engage in a bold and necessary conversation about the future of Jewish identity, the role of Israel, and the moral responsibilities of the Jewish people.
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Can Judaism Be Saved? - Ben Yehuda Press
Can Judaism be saved from its most dangerous currents? That’s the question Rabbi Arthur Green poses in this urgent exploration of the spiritual and ethical challenges facing Judaism today. Green examines the tension between universalist values and exclusivist tendencies across Jewish history, showing this tension’s roots in biblical, rabbinic, mystical, and Hasidic teachings. Green […]
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November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Can Judaism Be Saved? invites readers to engage in a bold and necessary conversation about the future of Jewish identity, the role of Israel, and the moral responsibilities of the Jewish people.
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Green challenges us to confront the darker currents within Jewish history and thought while embracing the universal truths of freedom, equality, and human dignity that lie at the heart of the Torah.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Green challenges us to confront the darker currents within Jewish history and thought while embracing the universal truths of freedom, equality, and human dignity that lie at the heart of the Torah.
Green examines the tension between universalist values and exclusivist tendencies across Jewish history, showing this tension’s roots in biblical, rabbinic, mystical, and Hasidic teachings.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Green examines the tension between universalist values and exclusivist tendencies across Jewish history, showing this tension’s roots in biblical, rabbinic, mystical, and Hasidic teachings.
Can Judaism be saved from its most dangerous currents?
That’s the question Rabbi Arthur Green poses in this urgent exploration of the spiritual and ethical challenges facing Judaism today.
That’s the question Rabbi Arthur Green poses in this urgent exploration of the spiritual and ethical challenges facing Judaism today.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Can Judaism be saved from its most dangerous currents?
That’s the question Rabbi Arthur Green poses in this urgent exploration of the spiritual and ethical challenges facing Judaism today.
That’s the question Rabbi Arthur Green poses in this urgent exploration of the spiritual and ethical challenges facing Judaism today.
Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer
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Jewish Poetry with Ben Yehuda Press
A Poetry Reading and Conversation
featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer
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November 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Jewish Poetry with Ben Yehuda Press
A Poetry Reading and Conversation
featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer
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October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz.
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Jewish Poetry with Ben Yehuda Press
featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz
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October 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Join us Sunday, 10/26, at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz.
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Jewish Poetry with Ben Yehuda Press
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October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Our Simchat Torah sale is underway. Save 25% on all our parsha titles: prose, poetry, and pictures; the serious, the silly, and the interactive. www.benyehudapress.c...
October 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our Simchat Torah sale is underway. Save 25% on all our parsha titles: prose, poetry, and pictures; the serious, the silly, and the interactive. www.benyehudapress.c...
And I never minded what his parents
grew on their cabbage patch.
So in Latrun I dragged him back.
Yeah, I took him on my back."
grew on their cabbage patch.
So in Latrun I dragged him back.
Yeah, I took him on my back."
Arik and Company - Ben Yehuda Press
There’ve always been questions about Arik. As far back as ’52 when a night patrol Spotted figures crossing the sand dunes. Arik told his men to open fire, ask questions later. A poetic exploration of Ariel “Arik” Sharon might sound counterintuitive, like an oxymoron. And true, much of the monologue that Atar Hadari presents us […]
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September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And I never minded what his parents
grew on their cabbage patch.
So in Latrun I dragged him back.
Yeah, I took him on my back."
grew on their cabbage patch.
So in Latrun I dragged him back.
Yeah, I took him on my back."
Used to come to scout meetings with a stick
for the coyotes. We’d see coyotes
maybe once in five years.
But he always knew his way in the dark.
And he never showed fear.
Once we started running around like tin soldiers
they all liked the fat kid.
for the coyotes. We’d see coyotes
maybe once in five years.
But he always knew his way in the dark.
And he never showed fear.
Once we started running around like tin soldiers
they all liked the fat kid.
September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Used to come to scout meetings with a stick
for the coyotes. We’d see coyotes
maybe once in five years.
But he always knew his way in the dark.
And he never showed fear.
Once we started running around like tin soldiers
they all liked the fat kid.
for the coyotes. We’d see coyotes
maybe once in five years.
But he always knew his way in the dark.
And he never showed fear.
Once we started running around like tin soldiers
they all liked the fat kid.
"Arik & Co." by Atar Hadari captures the life of a man who looms large over the history of Israel and Gaza, from his childhood through the Disengagement he arranged 20 years ago.
"Why I saved him I don’t know.
A funny looking fat kid with no friends.
"Why I saved him I don’t know.
A funny looking fat kid with no friends.
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Arik & Co." by Atar Hadari captures the life of a man who looms large over the history of Israel and Gaza, from his childhood through the Disengagement he arranged 20 years ago.
"Why I saved him I don’t know.
A funny looking fat kid with no friends.
"Why I saved him I don’t know.
A funny looking fat kid with no friends.
their Israeli counterparts are doing the same thing,
but not the same thing."
but not the same thing."
King of the Jews - Ben Yehuda Press
Alex taught me how to make this in my dreams for you when he was being King of the Jews in his joy for all the dancers who danced in the desert and knew only love. How does one respond to the terror of Oct 7? For Matthew Lippman, it’s through poetry. In King of the […]
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September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
their Israeli counterparts are doing the same thing,
but not the same thing."
but not the same thing."
their homes in Roslindale and Newton and Brookline
and hold hands and pretend there is love
because there is love.
They talk about boys and girls and car washes and happiness
and get lonely with each other and far away
and hold hands and pretend there is love
because there is love.
They talk about boys and girls and car washes and happiness
and get lonely with each other and far away
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
their homes in Roslindale and Newton and Brookline
and hold hands and pretend there is love
because there is love.
They talk about boys and girls and car washes and happiness
and get lonely with each other and far away
and hold hands and pretend there is love
because there is love.
They talk about boys and girls and car washes and happiness
and get lonely with each other and far away
"Natalie and Ben and Ori and Eliora are King of the Jews on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
on Sundays and Wednesdays.
They go to their King of Jews Mall
and spend money at Sephora and Shake Shack.
They walk around in their Lululemon shorts and gold chains,
on Sundays and Wednesdays.
They go to their King of Jews Mall
and spend money at Sephora and Shake Shack.
They walk around in their Lululemon shorts and gold chains,
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Natalie and Ben and Ori and Eliora are King of the Jews on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
on Sundays and Wednesdays.
They go to their King of Jews Mall
and spend money at Sephora and Shake Shack.
They walk around in their Lululemon shorts and gold chains,
on Sundays and Wednesdays.
They go to their King of Jews Mall
and spend money at Sephora and Shake Shack.
They walk around in their Lululemon shorts and gold chains,
Two new timely books of poetry. "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman captures the experience of mourning for 10/7 and fearing for the fate of the hostages from abroad.
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Two new timely books of poetry. "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman captures the experience of mourning for 10/7 and fearing for the fate of the hostages from abroad.
All of our books are on sale; Find a curated list of some titles particularly relevant to this season of return at www.benyehudapress.c....
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
All of our books are on sale; Find a curated list of some titles particularly relevant to this season of return at www.benyehudapress.c....
A New Year is dawning, may it be for the good, and with it lengthy synagogue stays. Now is the time to pick up shul reading, so we're running a sale: Save 20% on one book, 30% on two or three, and 40% on four or more.
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A New Year is dawning, may it be for the good, and with it lengthy synagogue stays. Now is the time to pick up shul reading, so we're running a sale: Save 20% on one book, 30% on two or three, and 40% on four or more.
September 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Three new titles spanning the past, present, and future of Judaism and Jewish life: Judaism Unbound (Bound) by Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg; Mussar in Recovery by Hannah L. ; and As the Story Goes by Mordekhai Lipson, translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin.
September 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Three new titles spanning the past, present, and future of Judaism and Jewish life: Judaism Unbound (Bound) by Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg; Mussar in Recovery by Hannah L. ; and As the Story Goes by Mordekhai Lipson, translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin.
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
a sheep
the buzz of being, and
lazy as it is
a trembling universe
It takes pleasure in seeing
what it created, creates, and refrains from creating
It doesn’t get more active
But fuller
considering the void
Now it is thirsty
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the buzz of being, and
lazy as it is
a trembling universe
It takes pleasure in seeing
what it created, creates, and refrains from creating
It doesn’t get more active
But fuller
considering the void
Now it is thirsty
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Wu Wei Eats an Egg - Ben Yehuda Press
Wu Wei Eats an Egg introduces fascinating Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch. Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and “hollow language,” Hirsch regularly explores the interior self, familial history, and the physical world (in which a tree “writ[es] a poem” each day in front of the […]
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September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
a sheep
the buzz of being, and
lazy as it is
a trembling universe
It takes pleasure in seeing
what it created, creates, and refrains from creating
It doesn’t get more active
But fuller
considering the void
Now it is thirsty
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the buzz of being, and
lazy as it is
a trembling universe
It takes pleasure in seeing
what it created, creates, and refrains from creating
It doesn’t get more active
But fuller
considering the void
Now it is thirsty
www.benyehudapress.c...
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