Beliefs category: 373 books
Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter
Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
An indispensable “how-to” guide for creating lasting memories and special ceremonies as you welcome your new Jewish daughter.
When a son is born, every Jewish parent knows what ceremony will welcome him into the community and signal his part in the Jewish people—the brit milah. What to...
Heretics or Daughters of Israel?
The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1999
Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, numerous Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, most of them under duress. Before and after 1492, when the Jews were officially expelled from Spain, a significant number of these conversos maintained clandestine ties to Judaism, despite their outward...
by Jacques Attali
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Per Jacques Attali, nato in Algeria in una famiglia ebraica piednoir, l’ebraismo è prima di tutto radicato nell’esperienza personale dei legami affettivi e dell’educazione. In questo saggio, però, l’eclettico economista e autore francese si propone di analizzare tutte le dimensioni della...
Intersecting Pathways
Modern Jewish Theologians in Conversation with Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
This book deconstructs the boundaries between Jewish and Christian cultures while at the same time redefining what it means to be Jewish in relation to Christianity in the twentieth century. Consequently, this analysis reveals the emergence of modern Jewish theologies out of the complex negotiations between Jewish thinkers and their Christian milieu.
by Simcha Paull Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
"Simcha Paull Raphael is a skilled and compassionate guide to the terrain of grief. His elegant weaving of Jewish custom, psychological wisdom and visions of the afterlife provides an invaluable resource for anyone caring for Jewish mourners on their path from loss toward wholeness." ---...
The Synagogue Survival Kit
A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue...
by Yeshiva University Rabbis & Professors
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The rabbis and professors of Yeshiva University come together in this latest volume of the Mitokh Ha-Ohel (Within the Tent) series to present scholarly and insightful essays on the Shabbat prayers. Like its three companion volumes, Mitokh Ha-Ohel on Shabbat Prayers offers essays by many of Yeshiva University's most esteemed rabbis and scholars.
by Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Laugh, be inspired...and tap into your vast human potential.
Good humor has the uncanny ability to break down barriers. This collection of over fifty essays by master educator Yehoshua Kurland is a unique combination of laughter and lessons, of humor and heartfelt advice. Each of these easy-to-read,...
by Melamed, Eliezer
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Peninei Halakha is a comprehensive series of books on Jewish law applied to today’s ever-changing world. In this series, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed’s well-organized, clear, and concise writing style brings the halakha, from principle to practical detail, to readers of all backgrounds. With over 300,000...
The Concise Code of Jewish Law
A Guide to the Observance of Shabbat
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Responding to a need for our generation, The Concise Code of Jewish Law is a modern and up-to-date work of halachah lema’aseh, presented in a concise and user-friendly format. The main text is an adaptation of classic sources of halachah, loosely following the order of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch,...
Living the Halachic Process (Volume II)
Questions & Answers for the Modern Jew
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Should one pray from a siddur or by heart? Does a place of business require a mezuza? Should a child fast on Yom Kippur? These are just a few of the questions asked and answered in this informative, accessible series developed by the Eretz Hemdah Institute. Living the Halachic Process provides...
Music and Religious Change among Progressive Jews in London
Being Liberal and Doing Traditional
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a central role as a driving force for religious change, comprising several elements seen as central to contemporary religiosity in general: participation,...
Holistic Prayer
A Guide to Jewish Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Few commandments are as challenging as prayer. The tensions between human limitations and God's infinity, self-assertion and self-submission, structure and spontaneity, hope and surrender, individual expression and collective experience make tefilla one of the most difficult aspects of Jewish life....
Halakhic Morality
Essays on Ethics and Masorah
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
In this volume’s opening essay, Rabbi Soloveitchik writes:
Nowadays a basic investigation of morality and ethos would be of great importance. There is a crying need for clarification of many practical problems, both in the individual-private and in the social-ethical realms....