New Volume in Mitokh Ha-Ohel Series Will Enhance Your Yom Tov Tefilla

New Volume in Mitokh Ha-Ohel Series Will Enhance Your Yom Tov Tefilla

In Judaism, lengthy prayer services on the Yom Tovim can inspire reactions that range from uplifted to frustrated. The text, the additional services, the Torah and Haftarah readings come to...
  • Jun.08.2017
Guest Blog: The Director Responds to The Koren Ma'alot Tanakh Facebook Post

Guest Blog: The Director Responds to The Koren Ma'alot Tanakh Facebook Post

Guest Blog: The Director Responds The recent Facebook post for the Koren Ma’alot Tanakh has gotten a lot of attention on social media. As the director of the shoot, I’d...
  • May.18.2017
All Who Are Hungry: Creating Collective Consciousness of the Stranger

All Who Are Hungry: Creating Collective Consciousness of the Stranger

(This essay appears in Seder Talk: The Conversational Haggada by Dr. Erica Brown.) On the night of the Seder, everyone is a king. Everyone is a free person. Thus, everyone...
  • Apr.09.2017
The Five Most Important Things About Passover

The Five Most Important Things About Passover

The following is taken from our newest Passover Haggada: Redemption, Then and Now by the prolific Rabbi Benjamin Blech. What is it about the Jews that makes us so special?...
  • Apr.02.2017

Technology Partnership with Sefaria

Last week, Koren Publishers and Sefaria, a free online library of Jewish texts, announced a technology partnership and integration involving The Noé Edition Koren Talmud Bavli. The partnership provides online...
  • Feb.09.2017
What Makes a Jewish Song Jewish? (Parashat Beshalah)

What Makes a Jewish Song Jewish? (Parashat Beshalah)

What Makes a Jewish Song Jewish? Note: One of the most powerful aspects of Rabbi Lamm’s Derashot LeDorot series is when readers realize how his message for each parasha, given...
  • Feb.09.2017
Inaugurating Our New Imprint

Inaugurating Our New Imprint

Koren is proud to announce the acquisition and re-dedication of Menorah Books, our new imprint for Jewish spirituality.
  • Feb.05.2017
Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016

Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016

You can tell a lot about a person’s interests by what they read. One may be learning a particular tractate in school or in a Daf Yomi group. Another may...
  • Dec.28.2016
The Rabbi Who Recaptured Hebron (Special for Hayyei Sarah)

The Rabbi Who Recaptured Hebron (Special for Hayyei Sarah)

The Torah reading this Shabbat, Parashat Hayyei Sarah, details Abraham’s purchase of Ma’arat HaMachpela (the Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron. In light of the political climate regarding jurisdiction over Hebron, it is worthwhile to read Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s firsthand account of the battle to reclaim Hebron and the Arabs’ surrender to the Israel Defense Forces.
  • Nov.22.2016
Celebrating S.Y. Agnon’s  50th Nobel Prize anniversary with translation of his last novel

Celebrating S.Y. Agnon’s 50th Nobel Prize anniversary with translation of his last novel

This December marks the 50th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature – the first and only Hebrew writer to receive the illustrious prize.
  • Nov.14.2016

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