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Zion Square - Ben Yehuda Press The music rips the skein of being. The ghost is proudly silent. A triumph of difference. Discordant and defiant. Maxim D. Shrayer’s voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry must be healing, Shrayer writes poems that break through boundaries and fears, accept defeat, and yearn for pleasure. –David Biespiel, author of A […]

The memories [Shrayer] carries burn in carefully crafted verses as if to contain his furies and his love. … These are poems to savor and to learn.
–Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

Congratulations to Maxim D. Shrayer, his poetry collection, "Zion Square" is a finalist for the 2025 Book Excellence Awards!

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Happy Earth Day!

Put Your Money Where Your Soul Is, Jewish Wisdom to Transform Your Investments for Good by Rabbi Jacob Siegel

The book has sections on Climate Change and Centering Radical Justice

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Repartings, Poems of Haftara by Joelle Maxx Milman is a cyclical poetic response, in voice feral and exacting, to the imagery of the prophetic texts of the Hebrew bible.

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Today at 3pm (ET) Joelle Maxx Milman will read from her debut poetry collection “Repartings, Poems of Poems of Haftara”

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Today is Israel Independence Day

Loving the Real Israel, An educational agenda for liberal Zionism by Alex Sinclair from the writings of Jewish philosophers, educational theorists and Bible scholars to posit four principles for liberal Zionist engagement

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April sale on all poetry books from Ben Yehuda Press: Buy any 2 poetry books, and get the 3rd for free!

How to Bless the New Moon Songs of the Sovereign and the Icon (revised edition) by Rachel Kann

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Is marijuana kosher? Yes, of course it is!
If I am going to get higher than high, isn’t there some useful traditional guidance about how best to do so?

Cannabis Chassidis, The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs (A Memoir) by Yoseph Leib Ibn Mardachya

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Into My Garden, Poems by David Caplan

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North Shore, Poems of Mourning and Remembrance by David Caplan

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AMID THE EARTHLY ELEMENTS Introducing the poetry of David Caplan

"After reading Caplan’s poems, we emerge grateful for how they grapple with the death of a parent, with human vulnerability, with all that we cannot control."
—Susan Comninos, Poetry Editor

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April sale on all poetry books from Ben Yehuda Press: Buy any 2 poetry books, and get the 3rd for free!

Into My Garden, Poems by David Caplan

As if New Jersey were Babylon, an Argentine
and an Israeli argue in Aramaic, Styrofoam cups
of instant coffee warm in their hands.

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April sale on all poetry books from Ben Yehuda Press: Buy any 2 poetry books, and get the 3rd for free!

The Sabbath Bee, Prose Poems for the Seventh Day by Wilhelmina Gottschalk

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In this unsentimental poetic memoir, "Bits and Pieces," award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz captures significant moments of his life exactly between “before” and “after.”

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This is 91: Edward Pomerantz Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

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An Added Soul, Poems for a New Old Religion (bilingual English/Hebrew edition) by Herbert J. Levine

“There’s much to atone for in how I manage my world:
The absence of a god is no excuse.”

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Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny is the cantor at Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles. Her forthcoming book on ritual (Ben Yehuda Press, 2027) explores Jewish ritualcraft through the lens of design thinking.

On Being Jewish Now just published Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny's new essay, "The New, New Jews"

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April sale on all poetry books from Ben Yehuda Press: Buy any 2 get 1 free!

and I was nowhere and everywhere
and all the hostages were dead, and we were all of the hostages, everywhere,
all of us,
taken by a history with so many words
there is nothing left to say.

"Breaking of the Vessels"

This morning, I became King of the Jews.
They found 6 dead hostages, and the dog walked me into the center of earth.
I was not King of the Jews but when we got there,
I was most certainly King of the Jews

King of the Jews by Matthew Lippman
National Jewish Book Awards Shortlist

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Today we remember the birthday of Hersh Smolar, author of Jews Without Yellow Stars stories of Jewish partisan fighters in Nazi-occupied Belarus (translated from the Yiddish by Ruth Murphy)

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