Ben Yehuda Press

11/28/2025

Celebrate Jewish Book Month with our buy more, save more Jewish Book Month sale. Remember: Hanukkah is coming!

https://www.benyehudapress.com/jewishbookmonth2025/

11/17/2025

Nice Atlanta Jewish Times report of the book launch for Mussar in Recovery: A Jewish Spiritual Path to Serenity & Joy.

"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. 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: https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/applying-the-wisdom-of-mussar-to-address-addiction/

11/14/2025

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 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. He envisions a Judaism that transcends narrow nationalism and exclusivity, offering a path of service to humanity and the world. ​

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.

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/can-judaism-be-saved/

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10/30/2025

Join us Sunday at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer

Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jewish-poetry-with-ben-yehuda-press-tickets-1835446151849?aff=social

10/23/2025

Join us Sunday, 10/26, at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz.

Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1849096851459?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/10/2025

Our Simchat Torah sale is underway. Save 25% on all our parsha titles: prose, poetry, and pictures; the serious, the silly, and the interactive. https://www.benyehudapress.com/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzgxLCI3NGNkYWU4NTBjMjciLDEyOTUsIjNiZWNhZiIsMTkzLDBd

09/16/2025

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.

"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,
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
their Israeli counterparts are doing the same thing,
but not the same thing." https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/king-of-the-jews/

"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.
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.
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."
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/arik-and-company/

09/11/2025

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. All of our books are on sale; Find a curated list of some titles particularly relevant to this season of return in the comments.

Save 20% or More with our Back-To-Shul Sale SaleProduct on sale Judaism Unbound (Bound) Original price was: $27.95.$27.95Current price is: $27.95. $22.36 Add to cart SaleProduct on sale As the Story Goes Original price was: $24.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95. $19.96 Add to cart SaleProduct on s...

09/09/2025

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. with Rabbi Harvey Winokur; and As the Story Goes by Mordekhai Lipson, translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin.

Learn more at https://www.benyehudapress.com/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzExNSwiNmQ1MTFlM2U0Nzg0IiwzNTksImMwMDEyNCIsMTgxLDBd

09/02/2025

Continuing our series of bilingual poetry translations, "Wu Wei Eats an Egg" presents Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch in English carefully rendered by Donna Spruijt-Metz.

*Wu wei eats an egg*

What always was, is, and will be
cracks an egg
on the edge
of a frying pan

Acts according to the nature
of the beast
It makes breakfast, the cosmos and planets
the tumbling sun

It laughs at all there is
It eats an egg under the heavens
It fills its belly

It sits back
in a chair
on the veranda
of a house
in a country
under the clouds
looking
at creation floating by

As it moves, it creates
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

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/wu-wei-eats-and-egg/