The Book of Jonah is a unique text in the Jewish canon. Among the shortest books in the Bible, it is also one of the most mysterious and morally ambiguous. In the CCAR Press's newest publication The Book of Jonah: A Social Justice Commentary, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz shows that the Book of Jonah delivers a message of human responsibility in a shared world.
lluminating such contemporary ethical issues as animal welfare, incarceration, climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and Jewish-Muslim relations, this social justice commentary urges us to join in repairing a broken world--a call that we, unlike Jonah, must hasten to answer.
Learn more at jonah.ccarpress.org
