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URJ Books And Music :: Olitzky, Kerry

Olitzky, Kerry
Kerry M. Olitzky, D.H.L., is the Executive Director of the Jewish Outreach Institute. Dr. Olitzky was ordained a rabbi by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he served the faculty and administration for fifteen years. In addition to the books he has co-authored with Dr. Leonard Kravitz (Kohelet, Mishlei, Pirke Avot, Shemonah Perakim), he is the author of numerous other books.
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Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics
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Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics
Edited and translated by Leonard Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky, Foreword by W. Gunther Plaut
Item #: 160502

This edition presents a fresh, new approach to a Jewish classic. Editors Kravitz and Olitzky reinvigorate the study of Pirke Avot ( "Ethics of the Fathers") with bold new insights from many corners of the modern Jewish world. Along with traditional commentaries from Rashi and Maimonides, r...

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Ruth: A Modern Commentary
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Ruth: A Modern Commentary
Edited and translated by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 160520

A chronicle of loss and despair, love, romance, and hope, the Book of Ruth includes themes and lessons applicable to the lives of contemporary readers: rebuilding a life after extreme loss; conversion to Judaism; women's roles, sexuality and legal status; finding love again; and more. This work ...

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Shemonah Perakim: Treatise on the Soul
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Shemonah Perakim: Treatise on the Soul
Edited and translated by Kerry M. Olitzky and Leonard S. Kravitz
Item #: 160508

From the authors who brought you the highly acclaimed Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics comes another thoughtful work exploring a Jewish classic. This most recent publication, Shemonah Perakim, explores an important work of the twelfth-century scholar Moses Maimonides...

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Eichah:  A Modern Commentary on Lamentations
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Eichah: A Modern Commentary on Lamentations
Translation and Commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 516790

From the authors of the classic commentaries on Jonah, Ruth, the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and Pirke Avot comes this new volume on the Book of Lamentations. Using commentary from the Targum, Rashi, and Ibn Ezra, as well as contemporary sources, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitsky shed new lig...

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Esther:  A Modern Commentary
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Esther: A Modern Commentary
Translation and Commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 160530

More than the centerpiece of Purim celebrations, Esther is unique in the biblical canon, and raises as many questions as it reveals answers. It is a rich source for text study, at Purim and throughout the year.

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Kohelet: A Modern Commentary on Ecclesiastes
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Kohelet: A Modern Commentary on Ecclesiastes
Translation and Commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 160507

Using the classical commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra and others, as well as modern critical scholarship, the authors have produced a line-by-line translation and commentary to accompany the Hebrew text of the Book of Ecclesiastes. The often-quoted Book includes both well-known and quizzical texts,...

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Mishlei: A Modern Commentary on Proverbs
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Mishlei: A Modern Commentary on Proverbs
Edited and translated by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 381761

URJ Press Allows you to rediscover another classic Jewish text
From the authors who brought you the highly acclaimed Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics comes another thoughtful work exploring a Jewish classic.

Introducing a new user-friendly translation and commentary...

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Shir HaShirim: A Modern Commentary on Song of Songs
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Shir HaShirim: A Modern Commentary on Song of Songs
Translation and Commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 405312

The Song of Songs, known in Hebrew as Shir HaShirim, is a biblical collection of erotic love poetry, a dialogue between two lovers. It was seen by the Rabbis, however, as a metaphor for the greatest love story of all, that between God and the people Israel.

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