Rituals category: 373 books
Living a Year of Kaddish
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community. Through the daily recitation of kaddish,...
by Stephen Fried
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
From award-winning journalist Stephen Fried comes a vividly intimate portrait of American Judaism today in which faith, family, and community are explored through the dramatic life of a landmark congregation as it seeks to replace its legendary retiring rabbi--and reinvent itself for the next generation.
The...
Devil in the Details
Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Jennifer Traig's memoir Devil in the Details paints a portrait of a well-meaning Jewish girl and her good-natured parents, and takes a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Recalling the agony of growing up an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig...
Kosher Nation
Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillions-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces it, who...
Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in the never-ending...
by Joseph Telushkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
When, if ever, should lying be permitted?
If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?
Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?
if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command...
The Jewish Body
An Anatomical History of the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.
Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic...
The Basic Beliefs of Judaism
A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
One of the oldest monotheistic religions known to humankind, Judaism has withstood the tests of time. So what exactly are the tenets of this ancient faith that have been passed down over the millennia, and how do they apply to our lives in the 21st century? The Basic Beliefs of Judaism gives an updated...
Why Is America Different?
American Jewry on its 350th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this question...
We Were The Future
A Memoir of the Kibbutz
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting,...
Scattered Among the Nations
Photographs and Stores of the World's Most Isolated Jewish Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
With vibrant photographs and intricate stories Scattered Among the Nations tells the story of the world’s most isolated Jewish communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union and the margins of Europe. Over 2,000 years ago, a shipwreck left seven Jewish couples stranded off...
Between Gods
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Profound, honest, and masterfully written—Between Gods forces us to reexamine our beliefs and the extent to which they define us.
Growing up in a tight-knit Christian family, Alison Pick went to church regularly. But as a teenager, she discovered a remarkable family secret: her paternal grandparents...
by Halkin, Hillel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself when the ring was broken by Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? A Strange Death is the answer to this. But it is many...
by John P. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
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