Welcome to the JPS e-Newsletter. As we enter the "dog days" of summer and then move into the fall season and the High Holy Days, JPS would like to wish you an early Happy and Healthy New Year! This newsletter highlights new JPS books, several special promotions, a reminder about our October Membership Madness Month, and other JPS news. For even more about current JPS books and promotions, visit our website at www.jewishpub.org!

Recently Released

• Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Fall Holidays – Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot
  Paul Steinberg; edited by Janet Greenstein Potter
  The first volume in JPS's terrific new holiday series! Blending the old and the new, the readings in this book ground us in the origins and traditions of each holiday and open up to us ways we can add our own expression to these special days.
  And Coming in October…
  Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Winter Holidays – Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat, Purim
  
  
• Inventing Jewish Ritual
  Vanessa L. Ochs
  Vanessa L. Ochs invites her readers to explore how Jewish practice can be made more meaningful through renewing, reshaping, and even creating new rituals.
  
  "Ochs … offers a clear, informative discussion of a dynamic process that will continue to change the face of American Judaism." – Publishers Weekly
  
  
• Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe
  Edited by Dan Ben-Amos; Consulting Editor, Dov Noy
  The second of five volumes in a literary landmark series. Volume 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion won a 2006 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture and was a Finalist in the category of Scholarship.

Coming Soon

• I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms
  Literary Commentary by Arnold J. Band; Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
  From the acclaimed author and artist who created The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden, this breathtakingly beautiful book fuses the artist Debra Band's stunning illuminated interpretation of selected psalms with the scholar Arnold Band's insightful analysis of the text.
  
  
  
• Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from Rabbinic Times to the Modern Day
  Shai Cherry
  Journey through two millennia of Bible commentary
  Every commentator has brought his or her own worldview to bear on the reading of holy text. This relationship between the text itself and the reader's interpretation is the subject of Torah Through Time—a fascinating and accessible guide to how some of the world's leading Jewish commentators read the Bible. Available September 2007
  
  
• The Power of Song: And Other Sephardic Tales
  Rita Roth
  Designed and Illustrated by Alexa Ginsburg
  The folktales in this delightful collection contain lessons, truths, surprises, and happy endings. Each story is accompanied by the author's commentary on its origin and meaning, and an introduction gives special insight into the history of Sephardic Jewish folktales.

Special Offers!

Enjoy these highly-acclaimed JPS books as we mark the start of the Jewish New Year … perfect guides for study and contemplation!

Order these books by October 31, 2007 and take 25% off their list prices

• How to Read the Bible
  Marc Zvi Brettler
  Regular Price: $35 - Now only $26.25
  "…one of the most exciting Judaic studies books I've read in years.... Brettler's writing is easy and clear enough for non-scholarly readers. I highly recommend his work." – The Reporter
  
  "To help span the gap between lay reader and specialist, Marc Brettler has written an extraordinarily accessible book… Brettler is clearly a master." – JBooks.com
  
  
• The Jewish Book of Days
  Jill Hammer
  Regular Price: $30 - Now only $22.50
  "What a beautiful way to learn Torah. Jill Hammer has offered us a gift and a wonderful resource of 'midrashim' and teachings to support and guide us on our soul journey day by day." – Melinda Ribner, author of Kabbalah Month by Month

Also Available…

• Entering the High Holy Days
  Reuven Hammer
  A National Jewish Book Award Winner
  Regular Price: $18 - Now only $13.50

Join the Society and Support Jewish Literacy!

Thank you, JPS Members!
Thanks to the generosity of our members, JPS books have recently been sent to a number of nonprofit organizations around the world, including Seminario Rabinico in Argentina, The Jade Bar Shalom Books for Israel Project, Veterans' Hospitals and Nursing Homes; Jews of Nigeria; as well as synagogue libraries in many under-served communities. We are grateful for your tremendous response and support of our Membership program, which helps underwrite the JPS Mitzvah Project.

Details on our October 2007 Membership Madness Month will be sent to you—and will be featured on our website—shortly.

All JPS members receive a 40% discount on book and gift certificate purchases:

• throughout the month of October
• when you join the Society
• when you renew your membership.

Join at the $250 level and JPS will donate five books in your name to a nonprofit organization. For more details about all levels of Membership, please visit our website www.jewishpub.org or call us toll-free at (800) 234-3151.

Mission Statement
The mission of JPS is to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life. JPS is a nonprofit educational association, and the oldest and foremost publisher of Judaica in North America.

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