Judaism category: 3160 books
The Fair Dinkum Jew
The Survival of Israel and the Abrahamic Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The history of Israel goes back 4,000 years, and conflict has dogged much of its past. But todays headlines continue to highlight the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and Israels quest for peace. Even so, another struggle is quietly rampant within world Jewry: the fight to secure Israels future.
Offering...
Women of the Wall
Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled...
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life
Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Distinguished philosopher Hilary Putnam, who is also a practicing Jew, questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the 20th century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life. An additional presence...
by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
IN THE LATE 1950's, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, better known as 'Reb Zalman,' penned what was perhaps the first book on Jewish meditation and contemplative Judaism in English. It was called, The First Step: A Primer of a Jew's Spiritual Life, and was printed in a simple stapled booklet edition...
Crucible of Faith
The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition
In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible...
Jews on the Frontier
Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council
Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier
Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history...
Hearing the Voice of God
In Search of Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In an age when technology is making our world feel increasingly small and far-flung peoples are interacting with each other more regularly than at any other time in history, the common threads running through vastly different civilizations are not only more obvious but more important to our understanding...
Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays
From Shofar to Seder
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Recent years have seen an increased interest in Jewish life, its culture, and its celebrations. There are many new students of Judaism, often potential converts or members of interfaith families who are seeking to learn more about the religion and its rituals. Unfortunately, many of the existing texts...
by Richard Kalmin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through sixth centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have on important rabbinic texts? In this book Richard...
Journey to Heaven
Exploring Jewish Views of the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A number of the basic tenets of Jewish belief regarding the afterlife, resurrection, immortality, judgment, messianism, and the world to come are laid out in this fascinating and accessible volume. Beginning with the Bible’s references to Sheol and its allusions to resurrection, this survey explores...
by Jeremy Hugh Baron
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
During the last twelve years, Dr. Baron has led fifty pre-Sabbath-service seminars at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, New York and/or the New London Synagogue. These didactic essays explore the Bible, theology, liturgy, social responsibility, and the arts - from Who wrote the Bible? to...
Religious Zionism, Jewish Law, and the Morality of War
How Five Rabbis Confronted One of Modern Judaism's Greatest Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Ever since the state of Israel was established in 1948, it has been plagued by war, and that has presented religious Zionists with an immense challenge. Jewish law prior to 1948 includes little material on war because it developed during centuries when Jews had neither a state nor an army. The leading...
Faith and Freedom
Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The recent renewal of the faith-reason debate has focused attention on earlier episodes in its history. One of its memorable highlights occurred during the Enlightenment, with the outbreak of the "Pantheism Controversy" between the eighteenth century Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and the Christian...
Neuropsychologist's Journal
Interventions and "Judi-isms"
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Drawing on case studies from the areas of neuropsychology as well as developmental, rehabilitation, and medical psychology, this book distills nearly 40 years of Dr. Judith Guedalia’s interventional styles—christened “Judi-isms” by the author—and highlights the intersection between psychology...