Targum Shlishi's support has made it possible for anyone to download a free digital version of the English translation of the book The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible, edited by Tova Ganzel, Yehudah Brandes, and Chayuta Deutsch (Academic Studies Press, March 2019).
Targum Shlishi's support has made it possible for anyone to download a free digital version of the English translation of the book The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible, edited by Tova Ganzel, Yehudah Brandes, and Chayuta Deutsch (Academic Studies Press, March 2019).
Targum Shlishi provided support to Zev Eleff’s book Who Rules the Synagogue? Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism(Oxford University Press). An acclaimed scholarly work and a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Eleff’s monograph takes a fresh look at…
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising is widely known; what has been almost unknown until now is that, in another ongoing act of defiance, a clandestine group of more than sixty journalists, scholars, and community leaders organized to document Jewish life in the Ghetto, resulting in an extensive archive of thousands of pages and...
Eli G. Rochelson (1907–1984), a Holocaust survivor, asked his family members to write his story; decades later, they have done just that. Meri-Jane Rochelson, Professor Emerita of English at Florida International University, crafted this biography from sources including a long…
The 2019 “A Kindness a Day” calendar, which recently arrived in Targum Shlishi’s office and is created by one of the foundation’s grantees, features uplifting messages that encourage us to extend kindness through concrete suggestions for action and a related…
Yonah Schiller is the rabbi who came to Tulane Hillel ten years ago, saw what was and what wasn’t happening there, and set out to change the situation, one unaffiliated Jewish student at a time. His results have been dramatic. Today Hillel…
Rosenberg (Shagar) (1949–2007), widely known in Israel, is new to an English-reading audience. The English translation of his book of essays, Rabbi Shagar: Faith Shattered and Restored, Judaism in a Postmodern Age (Maggid Modern Classics, 2017), was supported by Targum Shlishi...
Targum Shlishi helped support the book Turn it and Turn it Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts, edited by Jon A. Levisohn and Susan P. Fendrick (Academic Studies Press). The book was the first publication from…
The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) held its first-ever hackathon for women in early June, with unexpected results. Far more women than expected turned out, several with babies in tow. The women’s commitment and interest were impressive, and the resulting…