Judaism category: 3160 books
by Achad Ha-am
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The present voluime of translations from the Hebrew of Achad Ha-Am differs in character from the volume of Selected Essays published in 1912 by the Jewish Publication Society of America.
The earlier selection was confined, by the express desire of the publishing Society, to essays dealing with...
Open Minded Torah
Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Open Minded Torah elicits unheard voices from the Jewish past for a twenty-first century Judaism at a time when fundamentalists and fanatics often dominate conversations about religion. Kolbrener's brilliant and unorthodox essays are a must-read for anyone who wants to pursue a life of faith, based...
Rabbi Akiva
Sage of the Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and one of the most important influences on Judaism as we know...
by Alanna E. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community...
by Rabbi Neil Gillman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How we deal with revelation determines how we handle the issue of authority in belief and practice. How we understand authority determines how we deal with the claims of the tradition on us; how we deal with those claims determines how we shape our own Judaism. That conclusion opens the gate to a reconsideration...
Relational Judaism
Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Noted educator and community revitalization pioneer Dr. Ron Wolfson presents practical strategies and case studies to transform the old model of Jewish institutions into relational communities. He sets out twelve principles of relational engagement to guide Jewish lay leaders, professionals and community...
by Eli W. Schlossberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
This book is a friendly, engaging explanations of the traditions and lifestyles of Orthodox Jews. Informative for both Jews and non-Jews, Eli W. Schlossberg draws on personal experiences as an Orthodox Jew active in the international business world to answer the most commonly asked questions people...
by Nathan Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This work summarizes crucifixion in Judaism based on a study of the Hebrew Bible and rabbincal writings. The purpose of the work is to understand first-century Jewish views of crucifixion, especially related to the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.
The Coming of Lilith
Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This first collection of Judith Plaskow's essays and short writings traces her scholarly and personal journey from her early days as a graduate student through her pioneering contributions to both feminist theology and Jewish feminism to her recent work in sexual ethics.
Accessibly organized...
by M. Avrum Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation...
Beyond Sectarianism
The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide scholarly investigations of the group for the next four decades. As American Orthodoxy continues to grow in geographical, institutional, and political strength,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and...
A Life of Courage
Sherwin Wine and Humanistic Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Compiled by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry Cook & Marilyn Rowens, A Life of Courage is both a biography of and a tribute to the remarkable life of Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine. founder of Humanistic Judaism. Wine began the movement of Humanistic Judaism in the early 1960s at The Birmingham Temple in suburban Detroit,...
Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System
A Prayer-by-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major movements of American Judaism.
The traditional Jewish...