Making Sense of Creation and Fall explores the theological meanings of God’s acts in Genesis 1–3 and demonstrates how they relate to redemption and to the new heaven and earth. Professor Vern Poythress shows how themes such as creation from nothing, light, darkness, water, separation, dry land, life, multiplication of living things, image of God, dominion, temptation, and fall refer to real events in Genesis 1–3 and at the same time have rich connections with the subsequent redemp...

Golems and dybbuks and Nazis, oh my! Jacques Fux, Brazil's answer to Philip Roth, offers a remarkably original and entertaining work of autofiction that is essential listening for those interested in the Jewish experience in Latin America.Winner of Brazil's prestigious São Paulo Prize, Jacques Fux's brilliant literary debut novel unveils an outrageously entertaining Portrait of the Artist as a Young Schlemiel. Antitherapies relates the life journey of a yo...

In 1887 a linen salesman from New York City visited the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, considered to be the oldest golf course in the world. While there, he visited the shop of golf legend Old Tom Morris. Soon after his return home, this purchase triggered a golf explosion that would soon see America not only take up the game but also take it over. America Tees Off tracks golf's impact on the country and the game since this historic purchase, with dozens of wide-ranging stor...

Why does it sometimes feel like God is distant—even when we're doing "all the right things"? Could it be that modern faith has traded true worship for comfort, leaving us spiritually dry and disconnected?In this eye-opening book, Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider reveals how the ancient design of the Tabernacle isn't just biblical history—it's a divine invitation to draw near to God today. Through powerful teaching and personal insight, Rabbi Schneider shows...

Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatization, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their particular situation. The Jews became a community under siege and, as Shlomo Sand argues, Judaism was shaped by the hostile gaze of Christian civilization. While the forms of hostility endured by the Jews have varied over the centuries, it is impossible to understand twentieth century anti-Judaism, or Jewish identit...

Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies had won only a single National League title in more than sixty years. For the next five years, Carpenter and the newly hired general manager, Herb Pennock, would overhaul the team's operations, building a farm system from scratch and spending...

Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they lived for centuries. They also settled in Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, England, and the United States, among other places. Diaspora became normal to Jews, and though they may have hoped for a return to their "Promised Land" at the "End of Days," they made s...

Are you stuck in a rut, unable to create meaningful change in your life or organization? The Art of Change is the solution you've been searching for. Written by Jeff and Staney DeGraff, founders of the consulting firm Innovatrium, this book provides a masterclass in sustainable transformation.This masterclass in sustainable transformation includes strategies for challenging your biases and embracing ambiguity; thought-provoking insights from over thirty years of experience...

When you know what name to call on, you know more of whose you are.This book will guide you so you can declare and trust that the names of God perfectly describe who He is at His core. You will have peace through the storms of life and learn how to walk in victorious living. In today's culture, names are often little more than identifiers. But in ancient Hebrew culture, names held symbolic and prophetic meaning. This is why when God revealed His n...

Researchers, developers, business leaders, policy makers, and others are expanding the technology-centered scope of artificial intelligence (AI) to include human-centered AI (HCAI) ways of thinking. This expansion from an algorithm-focused view to embrace a human-centered perspective can shape the future of technology to better serve human needs.The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilitie...

A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuriesIt is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignty, and in most other places where Jews live today, they have religious freedom instead. As Simon Rabinovitch shows in this original work, the situation is much more complicated. Jews today possess different kinds of legal rights in st...

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500.While the stock market has tumbled and then soared...