A new siddur and chumash, with more emphasis on Israel and the experience of Orthodox women, are challenging the publisher’s primacy. NEW YORK (JTA) — For decades, one name dominated the bookshelves ...

Spurred in large part by the growing popularity of an Orthodox publisher, leaders of Conservative Judaism are set to release the movement’s first prayer book with extensive built-in commentary.

Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, leader of the Reconstructionist movement, which attempts to reinterpret the Jewish religion so as to check the escapism which, it asserts, is prevalent in contemporary ...