Judaism category: 3160 books
Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series
Systemic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011¬–2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as...
by Frederick S. Roden
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Many scholars of the modern Jewish identity focus on the ways in which the past two centuries have resulted in the loss of Jewishness: through "assimilation," intermarriage, conversion to other faiths, genocide (in the Holocaust), and decline in religious observance. In this work, author...
Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures
Rejection or Integration?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
The issue of Judaism's relationship to secular learning and wisdom is one of the most basic concerns of Jewish intellectual history. The authors collected in this study discuss both sides of the issue and collectively offer an eloquent and convincing case for the perpetuation of Judaism's dialogue with the 'outside' world.
Jewish on Their Own Terms
How Intermarried Couples are Changing American Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will have a tremendous impact on American Judaism as it is lived and practiced in the coming decades. To date, however, in both academic studies about Judaism and in the popular imagination,...
by Howard N. Lupovitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book is a survey of the history of the Jewish people from biblical antiquity to the present, spanning nearly 2,500 years and traversing five continents.
Opening with a broad introduction which addresses key questions of terminology and definition, the book’s ten chapters then go on to...
Knowing God
Jewish Journeys to the Unknowable
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Contemporary Jews often find meaning in Judaism's family and communal orientation, its beautiful rituals, its enriching culture, its sense of ethnic rootedness, and its moral values. For the classical Jewish tradition, however, all of these features of Judaism depend on a belief in God. Since many...
Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism
Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The works of Maimonides,...
by Arthur Waskow
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2000
Gives us an invaluable key to understanding the intersection of ecology and Judaism, and offers the wisdom of Judaism in dealing with the present environmental crisis.
Does Judaism Condone Violence?
Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A philosophical case against religious violence
We live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as “holy war” are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the relationship between holiness and violence? Can acts such as murder ever truly be described as holy?...
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...
The New American Judaism
The Way Forward on Challenging Issues from Intermarriage to Jewish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Popular Washington, D.C. rabbi and psychotherapist Arthur Blecher believes that the American Jewish community is actually flourishing amidst fears of dying out. He shows us that intermarriage strengthens Judaism--a concept that many Jews continue to debate. In straightforward and engaging chapters,...
Serious Fun at a Jewish Community Summer Camp
Family, Judaism, and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Unique in the literature on Jewish camping, this book provides an in-depth study of a community-based, residential summer camp that serves Jewish children from primarily rural areas. Focused on Camp Ben Frankel (CBF), established in 1950 in southern Illinois, this book focuses on how a pluralist Jewish...
Radical Inclusion
Engaging Interfaith Families for a Thriving Jewish Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
I wrote Radical Inclusion: Engaging Interfaith Families for a Thriving Jewish Future because after living an interfaith family life personally and working with interfaith families professionally, I firmly believe that engaging in liberal Jewish life can be a source of deep value and meaning not only...
Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism
Blood and Ink
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This engaging feminist approach to Judaism blends the interpretation of primary Jewish sources with contemporary social change. Bonna Devora Haberman shares her first-hand account of the “Women of the Wall” and a feminist approach to traditional Judaism, while interacting with ancient Jewish texts....