By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, is a weekly program hosted by Nachum Segal that presents an in-depth look the wide variety of Koren publications. Nachum hosts a key figure involved with the book such as the author, editor, or translator and together they explore the subject matter and how it is presented to… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Shalom Hammer about his book, "The Family Parsha Book." From the Koren website: The Family Parsha Book is a user-friendly sourcebook and educational textbook that will help create the perfect Shabbat atmosphere for parents and children, teachers and students. Parents and… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Dr. Barry Kislowicz about his book, "Parenting in Perspective." From the Koren website: Some families are blessed with child after child who makes them proud. Others seem to face challenges with their children at every turn. What separates those who struggle… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Professor Mordechai Rotenberg about his book, "The Psychology of Tzimtzum: Self, Other, and God." From the Koren website: Western psychology often describes relationships – between parent and child, individual and society, man’s physical and spiritual urges – as a complex set of conflicts,… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg on his book, "Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot." From the Koren website: The sages of the Mishna lived through one of the greatest transitions of Jewish history: the destruction of the Temple and withdrawal of divine revelation. Assuming… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Yehoshua Miller, Editor in Chief of Koren Publishers about the, "Koren Israel Humash with Rashi & Onkelos." From the Koren website: An innovative addition to Koren's Educational Resources, the Color edition of the Humash with Rashi and Onkelos is rich with valuable… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Yuval Cherlow about his book, "In His Image: The Image of God in Man." From the Koren website: At a time when religion is distorted to crush, belittle, and negate Man, when personal responsibility is replaced by passive faith, and human endeavor… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Asael Lubotzky about his book, "From the Wilderness and Lebanon: An Israeli Soldier’s Story of War and Recovery." From the Koren website: Asael Lubotzky was a young IDF commander during the Second Lebanon War. Leading his troops into combat, maneuvering through the… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Berel Wein about Koren's new, "Who Knows Twelve? Themes and Values in Trei Asar." From the Koren website: The books of the twelve prophets known as the Trei Asar span hundreds of years, from the waning days of the Kingdom of… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Dr. Alan Jotkowitz and Yael Unterman about their contributions to the fascinating new book, "Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity." From the Koren website: Even as the twentieth century will be remembered for the West’s loss of faith,… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Cantor Shimon Craimer about the new "Koren Zimrat Ha'Aretz Birkon with Musical CD by World Renowned Cantor Shimon Craimer " From the Koren website: The Koren Zimrat Ha’Aretz Birkon features: • Introduction & Translation by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks • Shabbat Blessings, Birkat HaMazon… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Elli Fischer and Yocheved Cohen about "Peninei Halakha: Laws of Shabbat" From the Koren website: Peninei Halakha is a comprehensive series of books on Jewish law applied to today’s ever-changing world. In this series, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed’s well-organized, clear, and concise… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Noemie Lopian about Dr. Ernst Israel Bornstein's, "The Long Night." From the Koren website: The Night lasted five years and eight days. Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old¬ who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Daniel Retter about, "HaMafteach - A Complete Index of the Entire Shas at Your Fingertips, All in One Volume, NEW English Edition" From the Koren website: Available in both Hebrew and English editions, HaMafteach® includes approximately 7,700 main entries, 29,000 sub-entries, 45,000 Talmudic sources… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Sherri Mendell about her book, "The Road to Resilience - From Chaos to Celebration." From the Koren website: How do you grow from grief? How do the Jewish people continue on with strength despite all of the hardships they have faced? Sherri Mandell… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb about the new Koren Tehillim. From the Koren website: With his modern and accessible translation, Rabbi Eli Cashdan brings out the lyrical elegance of the Psalms and offers clarity to the English reader. The text is accompanied… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Shlomo M. Brody, author of, "A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates." From the Koren website: Abortion, stem-cell research, conversion standards, female rabbis, DNA testing, animal cruelty, civil marriages in Israel. While today’s most hot-button halakhic issues elicit strong… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Dr. Yael Ziegler, author of, "Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy." From the Koren website: In this fluent and penetrating study of the Book of Ruth, Yael Ziegler provides a masterful primer on how to read biblical narratives with sensitivity and depth, using… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman, author of, "False Facts and True Rumors: Lashon Hara in Contemporary Culture." From the Koren website: In False Facts and True Rumors, Rabbi Daniel Feldman undertakes the vital task of examining the halakhic sources regarding lashon hara,… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Elliot Jager, author of, "The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness." From the Koren website: "Elliot Jager was eight when his father walked out on him and his mother. Decades later, struggling to reconcile with his now elderly Pater, he… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Marc Angel about Koren's Pirkei Avot. From Rabbi Angel's introduction: "Pirkei Avot, popularly translated as Ethics of the Fathers, is a collection of rabbinic teachings, mainly from the Tannaitic period. It is included at the end of the Talmudic tractates… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Joshua Halberstam, author of, "The Blind Angel:New Old Chassidic Tales." From the Koren website: Storytelling has always been integral to Chassidism, the mystical Jewish movement that began in the early 18th century and swept across Eastern Europe over the following two… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Bezalel Naor, scholar of Rav Kook and translator of, "Orot." From the Koren website: Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook was the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Erets Israel. OROT is Rabbi Kook’s seminal work of thought, a poetic vision of grandeur… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Matt Rees about the book he co-wrote with Ambassador Yehuda Avner entitled, "The Ambassador." From the Koren website: You will dine with the Devil, Dan. You will do everything the Devil requires. Whatever it takes, you will maintain the transfer of Jews… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Aviad Tabory on, "The Weekly Mitzva" by Rabbi Binyamin Tabory." From the Koren website: Rabbi Binyamin Tabory’s many students know him as a master educator who makes the highest level of classical yeshiva learning accessible with his pedagogic skill and… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Ze'ev Maghen about his book "John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage." From the Koren website: In a post-modern world, where identities blur and traditions give way to globalization, "why be Jewish?" has become the most urgent question for Jewish survival.… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi David Eliezrie on "The Secret of Chabad - Inside the World's Most Successful Jewish Movement." From the Koren website: Considered one of the most influential movements in modern Judaism, writers have speculated for decades about the unparalleled success of Chabad… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Reuven Ziegler about Rabbi Yehuda Amital's book on the High Holidays entitled, "When God is Near." From the Koren website: For decades, thousands from around the world gathered to join Rabbi Yehuda Amital zt”l as he led the High Holiday prayers… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Dr. Meir Tamari author of "With All Your Posessions - Jewish Ethics and Economic Life." From the Koren website: In face of the age-old slander against Jewish business ethics, noted economist and rabbinic scholar Meir Tamari puts forth a rigorous defense… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz about his new book on the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l entitled "My Rebbe." From the Koren website: When Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad-Lubavitch consisted of a small group of Chasidim recovering from… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Yehoshua Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Koren Publishers Jerusalem and Eliav Stollman, Brand Manager at Koren Publishers Jerusalem about the history and present of Koren's magnificent Tanakh. From the Koren website: The Koren Tanakh is a new, revised edition of the celebrated Koren… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Dr. Erica Brown about her book entitled "Leadership in the Wilderness - Authority & Anarchy in the Book of Numbers." From the Koren website: Confidently navigating the ancient wilderness, master educator Erica Brown guides readers through the tumultuous events of the… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Berel Wein about his new autobiography entitled "Teach Them Diligently - The Personal Story of a Community Rabbi." From the Koren website: Rabbi Berel Wein – rabbi and historian, writer and lecturer, kashrut supervisor and rosh yeshiva – looks back… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Reuven Ziegler on the Israel Prize, being bestowed on Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, on Israel Independence Day From the YU website: "Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein was be awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish religious literature this year on May 6, Israel’s… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Jeffrey Saks about S.Y. Agnon and his involvement as Editor in the S.Y. Agnon series of Toby Press, an imprint of Koren Publishers.   Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks about the "Jonathan Sacks Haggadah" and Rabbi Eli Fisher with Dr. Yocheved Cohen on Rabbi Eliezer Melamed's "Laws of Pesah." From the Koren website: 1) Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed  Rabbi Avraham "Avi" Weiss about his new book on prayer entitled "Holistic Prayer - A Guide to Jewish Spirituality." From the Koren website: Few commandments are as challenging as prayer. The tensions between human limitations and God’s infinity, self-assertion and… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed  Dr. Daniel Rose and Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz, about the new "brand new Koren Magerman Children's siddur AND new Magerman Ani Tefilla Siddur for teens and thoughtful adults." From the Koren website: The first in the Magerman Educational Siddur Series,… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Joshua Schreier, Editor of Koren's newly revised edition of the "Reference Guide to the Talmud - The Indispensible Talmud Study Aid." From the Koren website: Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz’s Reference Guide to the Talmud is the original Talmud study… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Dr. Richard V. Grazi about his book "Overcoming Infertility." From the Koren website: At a time when medical advances in fertility treatment are being made with unprecedented speed, Jewish couples are finding themselves psychologically and ethically challenged. Overcoming Infertility is… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Elli Fisher, translator of the new book on the life of Rabbi Yehuda Amital entitled "By Faith Alone - The Story of Rabbi Yehuda Amital." From the Koren website: By Faith Alone chronicles the inspiring life story of Israeli… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Shalom Hammer about  his book on the life of Rav Yehonatan Eybeshitz entitled "Derash Yehonatan - Around the Year with Rav Yehonatan Eybeshitz." From the Koren website: In Derash Yehonatan, Rabbi Hammer introduces the modern reader to key passages… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Mordechai Willig, translator of the new book on the life of Rabbi Yehuda Amital entitled "The Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on Shabbat ספר בישול בשבת." From the Koren website: The Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Izzy Pludwinski about his book entitled "Mastering Hebrew Calligraphy." From the Koren website: Mastering Hebrew Calligraphy is a comprehensive and beautiful guide to the art of Hebrew letter-making. Developed and designed by the leading Jerusalem calligrapher, Izzy Pludwinski, it teaches… Read more

  On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Michael J. Harris about the book on the life of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks entitled "Radical Responsibility -Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks." From the Koren website: Celebrating one of the greatest Jewish scholars of our… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Hanan Benayahu about the Koren Siddur Nusah Sepharadim (Edot HaMizrah). From the Koren website: The Koren Siddur: Nusah Sepharadim is a tremendous achievement. This prayer book is a one-of-a-kind edition that embraces the prayer customs and rituals of every Sepharadic… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Sherri Mandell about her book "The Blessing of a Broken Heart." From the Koren website: Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby,… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Berel Wein about two fascinating new Koren publications: "The Oral Law of Sinai" & "Vision and Valor." From the Koren website: In Vision & Valor, Rabbi Berel Wein traces the development of the Talmud, the record of the Oral Law… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi J David Bleich & Rabbi Daniel Feldman about the book  "The Philosophical Quest." From the Koren website: This volume includes discussions of the axiological principles of faith that define the essence of Judaism, analyses of particular principles such as the nature… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Shlomo Riskin about the his Torah Lights series, focusing primarily on volume 1: "Bereshit Confronting Life, Love & Family." From the Koren website: For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Judy Klitsner about her book "Subversive Sequels in the Bible - How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other." From the Koren website: In Subversive Sequels in the Bible, master Bible teacher Judy Klitsner takes us on a thrilling voyage of… Read more

On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbis Berger & Magence on the Koren Talmud Bavli: Yoma." From the Koren website: The Koren Talmud Bavli is a groundbreaking edition of the Talmud that will change forever the way students study, debate and experience this central text. The Koren… Read more

On this episode of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Dr. JJ Schachter about the book "Derashot Ledorot: Exodus - A Commentary for the Ages."   From the Koren website: Derashot Ledorot: Exodus, A Commentary for the Ages is a selection of essays on the book of Exodus based on… Read more

On this episode of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Levi Cooper about the book "Relics for the Present - Contemporary Reflections on the Talmud."   From the Koren website: Relics for the Present is a collection of thought-provoking mini-essays that explore the parameters and depths of prayer. Using Tractate… Read more

On this episode of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi David Brofsky about the book "Hilkhot Mo'adim - Understanding the Laws of the Festivals."   From the Koren website: The dynamic Jewish calendar provides constant religious challenges and spiritual opportunities. It allows us to focus on the birth of our… Read more

On this episode of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Editor-in-Chief of the Koren Talmud Bavli about this masterful new publication that will enhance Talmud study for all. From the Koren website: The Koren Talmud Bavli is a groundbreaking edition of the Talmud that will change… Read more

On this episode of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Dr. Binyamin Lau about his book "Jeremiah - The Fate of a Prophet." From the Koren website: In Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet, Rabbi Dr. Binyamin Lau breaks down the Book of Jeremiah, rearranging its chapters according to historical… Read more