Judaism category: 3160 books
by Israel Drazin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This engaging and informative book reveals unknown but true facts about the prophetical books of the Bible. Rabbis have avoided many questions raised by the seemingly improbable events in these volumes. This book addresses these questions and takes an open and rational look at the episodes.
The...
by R. Travers Herford
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
PREFACE
Most of the contents of the following pages were given as lectures in Manchester College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1911. I have thought it better to confine myself within the limits of what I then said, rather than to expand and recast the lectures into a complete monograph on the Pharisees....
Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus
How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A rare chance to know Jesus as his first disciples knew him.
What would it be like to journey back to the first century and sit at the feet of Rabbi Jesus as one of his Jewish disciples? How would your understanding of the gospel have been shaped by the customs, beliefs, and traditions of the...
by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
For too many Jewish young people, bar/bat mitzvah has been the beginning of the end of their Jewish journeys. When students perceive the Torah as incomprehensible or irrelevant, many form the false impression that Judaism has nothing to say to them.
Enter the game-changer: the JPS B’nai Mitzvah...
by Irving J. Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
The Holocaust and Halakhah is a study of the determined efforts of the Jews of Europe to conform to the patterns and norms of Halakhic Judaism during the Holocaust period. It is based in large part on rabbinic responsa written in Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Lithuania from the beginning of the Nazi...
The Peddlerâ??s Grandson
Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Edward Cohen grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt, thousand of miles from the northern centers of Jewish culture. As a child he sang "Dixie" in his segregated school, said the "sh'ma" at temple. While the civil rights struggle exploded all around, he worked at the family clothing...
Jewish Blood
Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, the book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its...
War and Peace in Jewish Tradition
From the Biblical World to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume surveys the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on central themes,...
The Jews of Windsor, 1790-1990
A Historical Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Beginning with the first Jewish settler, Moses David, the important role that Windsor Jews played in the development of Ontario’s south is mirrored in this 200-year chronicle. the founding pioneer families transformed their Eastern European shtetl into a North American settlement; many individuals...
The Jews as a Chosen People
Tradition and transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era.
Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature,...
Sons of Abraham
A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A prominent rabbi and imam, each raised in orthodoxy, overcome the temptations of bigotry and work to bridge the chasm between Muslims and Jews
Rabbi Marc Schneier, the eighteenth generation of a distinguished rabbinical dynasty, grew up deeply suspicious of Muslims, believing them all to be anti-Semitic....
How to Raise a Jewish Child
A Practical Handbook for Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
This updated edition of the classic parenting book combines insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary thinking about how children learn and grow. And it describes the practices, customs, and values that go into creating a Jewish home and raising joyful children within the rich traditions of Judaism.
The Book of Jewish Values
A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In The Book of Jewish Values, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. Telushkin speaks to the major ethical issues of our time, issues...