Judaism category: 3160 books
Miriam's Kitchen
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their religious practices irrelevant to her life. It wasn't until she entered...
Jewish Megatrends
Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change—from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life. A challenging yet hopeful call for transformational change that looks at the social norms that are shaping the habits and lifestyles of younger American Jews and shows how, on the margins...
by Ellen Frankel, Betsy Patkin Teutsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Jewish symbols reflect the interaction of word and image within Jewish culture. Jews have always studied, interpreted, and revered sacred texts; they have also adorned the settings and occasions of sacred acts. Calligraphy and ornamentation have transformed Hebrew letters into art; quotation, interpretation,...
by Hannah Trager
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The book was published around 1900. So "fifty years ago" would be about 1850.
Revolution of Jewish Spirit
How to Revive Ruakh in Your Spiritual Life, Transform Your Synagogue & Inspire Your Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
In this practical and engaging guide to reinvigorating Jewish life, Rabbi Baruch HaLevi and Ellen Frankel identify the difference between a living synagogue and a dying one, and offer methods for reviving the Jewish spiritual centers that serve as the heart of Jewish tradition and your life. They offer...
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Basics 2/E
A Practical Family Guide to Coming of Age Together
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
How to manage the process with grace, joy and good sense.
A practical guide that gives parents and teens the "how-to" information they need to navigate the bar/bat mitzvah process and grow as a family through this experience. For the first time in one book, everyone directly involved...
Being God's Partner
How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
What is spirituality anyway? Isn't spirituality about emotion?
And isn't work about the rational mind?
"Too often, we divorce our 'work life’ from our 'real life,’ from our innermost beliefs and convictions. But ‘work’ can be as much a part of our life—and as much a vehicle for...
Jewish Bioethics
Rabbinic Law and Theology in their Social and Historical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
This book presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts. Yechiel Michael Barilan discusses end-of-life care, abortion, infertility treatments, the brain death debate, and the organ market. Barilan...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse in particular. "Holiness" seems to express an important feature of religious thought and of religious ways of life. Yet the concept is ill...
Traces of God
Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
A Probing and Powerful Look at the Role You Play
in Shaping Your Relationship with God
“No matter how hard we look, the God of Israel cannot be seen. Looking is not seeing, and seeing God is not like seeing an apple. It is much more like making a medical diagnosis on the basis of looking...
We Plan, God Laughs
Ten Steps to Finding Your Divine Path When Life is Not Turning Out Like You Wanted
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The old Yiddish proverb, “We plan, God laughs,” expresses a truth everyone can relate to. At every stage of life we make plans, setting out where we want to go and imagining what we will be like when we have “arrived.” But things have a way of turning out not quite as we hoped or expected.
In...
by Aaron L. Raskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
As a carpenter employs tools to build a home, so G d utilized twenty-two letters of the Alef-Bais to form the heaven and earth. They are the metaphorical wood, stone and nails, the cornerposts and crossbeams of our earthly and spiritual existence.In Letters of Light, Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin explores...
Self-Interest vs. Altruism in the Global Era
How society can trun self-interests into mutual benefit
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Self-Interest vs. Altruism in the Global Era regards the world’s challenges as necessary consequences of humanity’s growing egotism, rather than a series of errors. The book suggests ways to use our egos for society’s benefit, rather than trying to suppress them. The books offers a novel understanding...
by Dovid Shraga Polter
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
If all our life experiences are intended to give us opportunities for self-mastery and growth, this is especially true regarding a person’s career. We often spend more time in the pursuit of our profession than in any other single activity. Obviously, one’s work represents much more than simple...