New JPS Military Tanakh

Editor’s note: I mobilized with Aleph Institute’s nice Chumash and Tehillim, which have military covers and are of convenient size for deployment, and I imagine were printed some time between 1941 and today. Jews in the uniform should know of all their available resources.

As young Jewish troops went off to serve in World War I, they received Tanachs from the Jewish Publication Society to take with them overseas. As World War II loomed, once again Jews in the military were supplied not only with their gear, but also the 1941 JPS translation of the Hebrew Bible.

Now, for the first time since the early 1940s, and just in time for the High Holidays, the Philadelphia-based publishing company, in partnership with the Jewish Welfare Board Chaplains Council, has printed 10,000 copies of the JPS Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States.

More here.