Beliefs category: 373 books
Why Is America Different?
American Jewry on its 350th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this question...
We Were The Future
A Memoir of the Kibbutz
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting,...
Scattered Among the Nations
Photographs and Stores of the World's Most Isolated Jewish Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
With vibrant photographs and intricate stories Scattered Among the Nations tells the story of the world’s most isolated Jewish communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union and the margins of Europe. Over 2,000 years ago, a shipwreck left seven Jewish couples stranded off...
The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices
Discover a Richer Spirituality Through Jewish Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
An insightful and illuminating guide to Judaism's basic tenets and practices. The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices offers a more profound understanding of Judaism - for practicing Jews and non-Jews alike - by explaining the key concepts of Jewish thought, including the sanctity of human...
by Halkin, Hillel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself when the ring was broken by Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? A Strange Death is the answer to this. But it is many...
by John P. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Judaism Jews Hebrew language Kingdom of Judah Ethnic group Religion Philosophy Hebrew Bible Tanakh Talmud Israelites God in Judaism Rabbinic Judaism Moses Biblical Mount Sinai Oral Torah Hellenistic Judaism Humanistic Judaism Sabbateans Jewish religious movements Orthodox Judaism Haredi Judaism Modern...
Jewish Literacy Revised Ed
The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question?
In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one...
by Herman Wouk
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
This Is My God is Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism completely updated and revised with a new chapter, Israel at Forty. A miracle of brevity, it guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels.
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent...
Essential Torah
A Complete Guide to the Five Books of Moses
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Whether you are thinking about studying the Bible for the first time or you’re simply curious about its history and contents, you will find everything you need in Essential Torah. George Robinson, author of the acclaimed Essential Judaism, begins by recounting the various theories of the origins...
by Adin Steinsaltz
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A masterful introduction to the to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud
In The Essential Talmud, the renowned Israeli scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz succinctly describes the history, structure, and methodology of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived...
Creating Judaism
History, Tradition, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting...
My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries: Vol. 5
Birkhot Hashachar (Morning Blessings)
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
Ceremony & Celebration
Introduction to the Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
When did Rosh HaShana, the anniversary of creation, become a day of judgement? How does Yom Kippur unite the priest’s atonement with the prophet’s repentance? What makes Kohelet, read on Sukkot, the most joyful book in the Bible? Why is the remembrance of the Pesah story so central to Jewish...