Judaism category: 3160 books
The Committed Life
Principles for Good Living from Our Timeless Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Drawing on the timeless wisdom of the Torah. Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis reminds us of the principles necessary for living a better and more committed life. Inspirational and deeply moving. This book will touch your heart like no other.
Shiksa
The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
She is feared and desired. She is the symbol of a family's failure and a culture's dissolution. She is a courageous ally, a loyal fellow traveler, and a mother struggling for the survival of the same family and culture whose destruction she supposedly seeks.
The gentile woman has been all these...
Mamaleh Knows Best
What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish...
My Grandfather's Blessings
Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive.
Dr. Remen's grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection...
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that...
Holy Brother
Inspiring Stories and Enchanted Tales about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2002
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was one of the most original and inspired Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In this incredible volume, Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum, a devoted student of Reb Shlomo, gathers dozens of stories about this charismatic, loving Jewish leader. The episodes retold here...
by Joe Bobker
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
"Uniquely insightful and entertaining tips to a healthy Jewish marriage, sprinkled with humor and Torah anecdotes... including:
Rav Rafoel Levin on the obligatory smile
Rav Shmuel Aron Yudelevitz on conflict
the Vizhnitz Rebbe, shalom bayis, and jewelry
Rav Avraham...
Symbols of the Kabbalah
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school of Isaac Luria, provides a coherent and comprehensive...
by Jonathan Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Chief Rabbi Emeritus Lord Jonathan Sacks evaluates of the role of the synagogue in Jewish life today. In it he explores the choices faced by religious leadership in the modern world, and the ways in which the synagogue embodies a living community of faith. His book Faith in the Future, described by...
More Desired than Our Owne Salvation
The Roots of Christian Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher than for Arab states or Palestinians. More Desired than Our Owne Salvation is a compelling historical...
by Rabbi James Rudin
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
We now have the potential to end two thousand years of hostility.Will we succeed? In recent years, courageous Christian and Jewish leaders have together confronted the past and commenced the urgent task of ending one of the worlds longest and most bitter religious conflicts by building bridges of solidarity,...
Jewish Education and History
Continuity, crisis and change
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage...
Men of Silk
The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Hasidism, a kabbalah-inspired movement founded by Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (c1700-1760), transformed Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. In Men of Silk, Glenn Dynner draws upon newly discovered Polish archival material and neglected Hebrew testimonies to illuminate Hasidism's dramatic...
Healing the Schism
Barth, Rosenzweig, and the New Jewish-Christian Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Two paradigm shifts hallmark Jewish-Christian relations in the twentieth century: the collapse of “Christendom” and the Holocaust. From within these shifts, reassessment of the Jewish-Christian relationship emerged. Over the second half of the twentieth century, a new theological account of that...