Books
Books by Rabbi Menachem Creditor: Torah and Jewish thought, Zionism and Israel, poetry and prayer, holiday resources, social justice, anthologies, and writing for children.
Newest Books
Current releases and recent projects
You Shall Love: An AJR Tu B'Av Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
Torah, poetry, prayer, and reflection on love as connection, Jewish resilience, hope, and spiritual resistance.
Antizionism is Not Normal: Jewish Sovereignty, Moral Responsibility, and the Boundaries of Communal Discourse
Foreword by Rabbi Tracy Kaplowitz, PhD
Essays affirming Jewish sovereignty, moral responsibility, and the need for principled boundaries within Jewish communal discourse.
In Every Generation: Immigration as a Jewish Value — A Passover Haggadah Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A sacred exploration of immigration through Torah, liturgy, Jewish memory, poetry, prayer, and artwork.
Struggling with Holiness and Power: Selected Essays, 2025
One hundred thirty-eight essays on Torah, grief, antisemitism, Zionism, power, moral courage, and responsibility.
At Home in the World: Musings Toward a Zionist-Diasporic Vision
A vision of Zionism and Diaspora as covenantal partners in Jewish belonging, responsibility, and redemption.
Genesis: Reflections on the Weekly Torah Portion
Book One of Timeless Torah; foreword by Rabbi Susan Silverman
Accessible weekly Torah commentary blending traditional interpretation, contemporary relevance, and spiritual reflection.
Anti-Zionists, Unwitting Zionists: When Obsession Becomes Proof of Attachment
A provocative argument about anti-Zionist fixation, Jewish sovereignty, pluralism, and responsibility.
Am Yisrael Chai: Special Combined Edition, 2025
Hundreds of poems, prayers, essays, and sermons created in the immediate aftermath of October 7.
Perhaps There is Hope: A Tisha B'Av Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
Contemporary voices on grief, mourning, resilience, faith, and the flickering possibility of hope.
At the Mountain: An Anthology of Jewish Reflections on God, Commandedness, and Spirituality
Rabbis, poets, activists, artists, and scholars wrestle with God, revelation, obligation, and spiritual life.
Redemption Unfinished: A Seder Supplement
A Seder companion connecting freedom, memory, hostages, oppression, Jewish resilience, and moral responsibility.
Recent Books
2023–2024 collections and collaborations
Blessing in a Broken World: Selected Essays (2024)
Essays on grief, hope, Torah, Pride, leadership, justice, and sacred life in a fractured world.
Siddur Leivav Penimah: A Fully Transliterated Jewish Prayerbook for the Inner Heart
A traditional egalitarian siddur with full transliteration and partial translation, designed for access and spiritual depth.
An Upside-Down World: Esther and Antisemitism
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A Purim supplement on hatred, identity, courage, advocacy, allies, and communal resilience.
Zionism is Just
A concise exploration of Zionism, Judaism, self-determination, equality, dignity, and justice.
Plagues and Promises: A Post-October 7 Commentary on the Book of Exodus
The second post-October 7 Torah-commentary volume, joining contemporary trauma to the enduring strength of Torah.
We Rise: An Anthology of High Holiday Sermons Delivered the Year after October 7
Sermons from spiritual leaders across several countries on resilience, faith, grief, and collective strength.
After October 7: Essays
Fifty-three reflections on devastation, testimony, memory, resilience, justice, and hope.
Crackling and Alive: Selected Writings 2006–2023
A curated collection on faith, public life, Israel, justice, courage, and difficult conversation.
These Holy Days: A High Holiday Supplement After October 7
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A resource for prayer and reflection through Elul and Tishrei in the aftermath of October 7.
A Difficult Beginning: A Post-October 7 Commentary on the Book of Genesis
Co-edited with Daphne Lazar Price
The first post-October 7 Torah-commentary volume, bearing spiritual testimony through the book of Genesis.
God Kisses: Selected Writings 2023
Spiritual responses to Israel’s judicial-overhaul protests, October 7, and a tumultuous year in Jewish history.
Israel Poems
Poetry of love, grief, prayer, belonging, history, and hope in relationship with Israel and the Jewish people.
Calling Out: Psalms for Today
Co-edited with Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Modern psalms expressing fear, healing, spiritual yearning, geopolitical tension, and hope.
Seder Interrupted: A Post-October 7 Haggadah Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A Passover resource for confronting freedom, captivity, sorrow, solidarity, and Jewish ritual after October 7.
To Write of Love During War: Poems
Love letters from fourteen poets to Am Yisrael, written in the months after October 7.
Am Yisrael Chai: Essays, Prayers, and Poems — Volumes One and Two
An emergency-response anthology of global Jewish voices grieving and gathering strength after October 7.
The Consequences of Listening: Selected Writings 2018–2022
Essays on pandemic, January 6, racial justice, antisemitism, polarization, populism, beauty, and hope.
Impossible Torah: The Complete AI Torah Commentary
An experimental commentary generated through AI voices reflecting on each Torah portion.
Ending Gun Violence: Essays, Prayers, and Poems
Foreword by Fred Guttenberg
A decade of spiritual writing and advocacy confronting America’s gun-violence epidemic.
Exploring the Complicated Place of Progressive American Jewish Zionism
Co-edited with Amanda Berman
Diverse voices on progressive Zionism, political loneliness, moral complexity, Israel, and American Jewish belonging.
Collected Writings, Poetry, Prayer & Torah
Earlier individual works and collections
A Rabbi’s Heart: Selected Writings 2006–2017
Foreword by Rabbi David Wolpe
Essays, stories, and reflections on the world, the soul, moral growth, and Jewish life.
Loud, Proud, and Jewish
A diverse anthology of unapologetic Jewish pride amid vulnerability and rising antisemitism.
A Year of Torah
A contemporary Torah commentary born from daily online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When We Turned Within: Reflections on COVID-19 — Volumes One and Two
Co-edited with Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Reflections, prayers, and poems from 165 contributors on loss, loneliness, faith, adaptation, and shared humanity.
Open to Wonder: Selected Essays (2015–2017)
Essays on home, justice, sacred meaning, violence, political corruption, and the questions of contemporary life.
We Will Not Be Silent: Voices of the #JewishResistance
Voices of moral action, radical empathy, faith, liberty, and resistance in a narrow political moment.
To Banish Darkness: Modern Reflections on Hanukkah
Contemporary Jewish voices on light, vulnerability, dedication, courage, and ritual.
yes, my child: poems
Prayer-poems of pain, joy, spiritual vision, and the soul’s encounter with the world.
Intense Beginnings: Selected Writings 2014
Essays connecting religious moral values, Jewish learning, social justice, and public courage.
What Does it Mean? Selected Writings 2006–2013
Early writings on Judaism’s universal values, human dignity, faith, and public life.
The ShefaNetwork Archive
A collection of visionary voices and dreams from within Conservative/Masorti Judaism.
And Yet We Love: Poems
Poems of compassion, nature, conflict, pain, gun violence, breath, and love.
Primal Prayers: Spiritual Responses to a Real World
Prayers for the joys, wounds, challenges, and healing possibilities of daily life.
Siddur Tov LeHodot I & II
Fully transliterated, partially translated prayerbooks for Shabbat morning and Shabbat evening.
Slavery, Freedom, and Everything Between: The Why, How and What of Passover
A collection exploring Passover’s history, ritual, spiritual values, freedom, and world-repair.
Justice, Gun Violence & Public Witness
Faith-rooted advocacy and communal response
All Who Can Protest: A Rabbinic Call to End the American Gun Violence Epidemic
Co-edited with Rabbis Rachel Timoner, Isaiah Rothstein, and Michelle Dardashti
Rabbinic moral witness following mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, and Laguna Woods.
Honey from the Rock: A Pandemic-Era Rabbinic Anthology
Foreword by Betsy Stone, PhD; afterword by Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz
A diverse gathering of rabbinic meaning-making, vulnerability, adaptation, and comfort during COVID-19.
Jewish Resilience: Rabbinic Reflections After Colleyville
Foreword by Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Rabbinic reflections on presence, prayer, trauma, resistance, and resilience after the Colleyville hostage crisis.
Remember and Do Not Forget
Co-edited with Rabbi Jesse Olitzky
A collection on January 6, collective memory, moral interpretation, and civic responsibility.
The Rabbis Against Gun Violence Anthology: None Shall Make Them Afraid
Faith leaders move beyond silence and prayer toward legislation, intervention, advocacy, and culture change.
Holding Fast: Jews Respond to American Gun Violence
Jewish voices responding to the Tree of Life massacre and demanding an end to America’s gun-violence epidemic.
Not By Might: Channeling the Power of Faith to End Gun Violence
Foreword by Shannon Watts
A collection of American faith voices speaking, preaching, organizing, and acting against gun violence.
The Hope: American Jewish Voices in Support of Israel
Diverse American Jewish voices expressing solidarity, peoplehood, love, and hope for Israel.
Peace in Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence
Rabbinic voices asking hard questions and offering a hopeful, faith-rooted response to national violence.
Children’s Books
Jewish learning for younger readers
A Seder Rhyme
A rhyming children’s companion to the Seder, illustrated by children and designed to explain while entertaining.
Avodah: A Yom Kippur Story
A rhyming retelling of the High Priest’s Yom Kippur service and the difference one person can make.
Rabbi Rebecca and the Thanksgiving Leftovers
A Jewish Thanksgiving story of Torah, wisdom, teaching, generosity, and love.
Out of Print
Retained here as part of the complete bibliography
Thanksgiving Torah: Jewish Reflections on an American Holiday
Five rabbinic reflections on gratitude, American civic life, and transforming thanksgiving into responsibility.
