Judaism category: 3160 books
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer
The Ashkenazic and Sephardic Rites
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Fifteen years in the making, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer is a monumental achievement. Never before has such a comprehensive resource been available to those searching for answers to questions on Jewish prayer. Macy Nulman has provided, in one unique, accessible volume, information on each and...
by Moses Maimonides,M. Friedlander (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Guide for the Perplexed (Hebrew translit. Moreh Nevuchim) is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or "the Rambam". It was written in the 12th Century in the form of a three-volume letter to his student, Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta, the son of Rabbi Judah,...
Love Triangles
Discovering Jesus the Jew in Today's Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
A Jewish woman’s unconventional quest to find Jesus in modern Israel
With candor and an intimate knowledge of the Land and its people, Bobbie Ann Cole takes you on some intriguing time travel to Israel such as to the ceremonial slaughtering of Passover lambs in the nearby temple, as Jesus...
Women of the Wall
Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality
“Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women.”
—from the
In Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for...
ReVisions
Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2001
What does it mean to re-vision Torah? "I use the title ReVisions for this book because I want readers both to revise―in the classic definition of reexamine and alter―and to see the text anew, to have a new vision, a 'revision,' of Torah.... It begins with the notion that women see the text...
Hastening Redemption
Messianism and the Resettlement of the Land of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Accounts of the history of Zionism usually trace its origins to the late nineteenth century. In this groundbreaking book, Arie Morgenstern argues that its roots go back even further. Morgenstern argues compellingly that the Jewish community in Israel may be traced back to a large-scale wave of immigration...
by Arthur Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
What can Kabbalah teach us about our lives today? What can it teach us about our future?According to the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, Ehyeh, or I shall be, is the deepest, most hidden name of God. Arthur Green, one of the most respected teachers of Jewish mysticism of his generation, uses...
Exile in the Maghreb
Jews under Islam, Sources and Documents, 997–1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over a thousand year period from the Middle Ages (997 C.E.) to the French colonization (1830...
Journey of a Rabbi
Vision and Strategies for the Revitalization of Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture is a comprehensive and engaging overview of Jewish life, from its origins in the ancient Near East to its impact on contemporary popular culture. The twenty-one essays, arranged historically and thematically, and written specially for this...
Today I Am a Woman
Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
“The amazing tales of Jewish girls on six different continents who celebrate the Jewish ritual of becoming a woman.” —The Jewish Journal
Winner, Spirituality Category, New England Festival Best Books of the Holiday Season
Divided into nine regions—Africa; Asia; Australia and New Zealand;...
by Rabbi Norman J. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
An accessible introduction to how to read, study, and understand Torahthe Bible and related sacred texts that have grown up around it.For everyone who wants to understand Torah, this book shows the way into an essential aspect of Judaism, and allows you to interact directly with the sacred texts of the...
by Perle Besserman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1998
Jewish mystics from biblical times to the present have explored the hidden secrets of the Torah in quest of a single goal: to lose the self in the Infinite "No-thingness" (Ein Sof) and be at one with God. In language accessible to the layperson, this Shambhala Guide provides a detailed introduction...
by Norman Bentwich
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"It is a melancholy reflection upon the history of the Jews that they have failed to pay due honor to their two greatest philosophers. Spinoza was rejected by his contemporaries from the congregation of Israel; Philo-Judaeus was neglected by the generations that followed him. Maimonides, our third philosopher,...