Maurice D. Harris

I AM: A Journey in Jewish Faith

World Religions

“Rabbi Eron has taken Judaism's central prayer, the Shema, and turned its key words and phrases into gateways opening onto paths of personal theological exploration. . . . The writing is clear, careful, and warm. As he explores spiritual metaphors, Divine names, and the limits of human perception, Rabbi Eron also draws us into the vulnerable places we inhabit, where we grapple with our feelings of loneliness and our intuition of belonging to the One of many names, who cannot accurately be named.”

The Book of Israela

Fiction

“The Book of Israela uses an unreliable narrator to paint a funny, horrifying, and honest portrait of contemporary Israel, while it explores the beauty and absurdity of Abrahamic monotheism. The ancient prophets (or possibly just random crazy people) haunt the steps of a secular, self-centered Israeli psychologist, whose new client, Israela, upends his life. Riddled with ingenious biblical references, Blumenthal’s novel is part apocalypse, part comic book, and part biblical scavenger hunt, told unforgettably.”