Judaism: branches and groups

The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism.

A revealing account of the three main disciples of Rabbi Joseph B.

Toward a Meaningful Life is a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

William Sharlin (1920-2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist.

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish historybut many precedents among religious communities in the United States.

Von der verhüllten ultraorthodoxen Jüdin zur Designerin und Unternehmenschefin in New York: Eine mitreißende, wahre Geschichte aus der Welt des ultraorthodoxen Judentums – verfilmt von NetflixGeboren in eine streng religiöse jüdische Familie und mit 21 verheiratet an einen ultraorthodoxen Juden, kennt Julia Haart die ersten 42 Jahre ihres Lebens nur die Unterwerfung unter die strikten Gebote ihrer Religionsgemeinschaft: Unbedeckte Haare, kurzärmelige T-Shirts, Miniröcke, Bikinis – all dies gilt als Insignien des Teufels.

This collection of articles constitutes a major contribution to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies, offering different perspectives on the rich and complex phenomena in the social, political, and cultural development of Jewish communities in the area.

A user-friendly siddur, by the same author as Tiku Shofar, for children ages 8 through 13, junior congregations and family services.

In the shortest book of the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Obadiah delivers a powerful message of divine justice, foretelling the downfall of Edom-a nation consumed by pride and betrayal.

The Hayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810.

Patriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Fragestellung und damit dem Forschungsansatz, was die wissenschaftliche und berufliche Zuwendung gerade jüdischer Frauen zu den "Psycho-Fächern" begründet hat, ob und inwieweit dies aus dem Judentum ableitbar ist, welche Bedingungen und Umstände – möglicherweise auch eigene Betroffenheit, gravierende oder gar existentielle Zäsuren – im persönlichen Lebensweg dieser jüdischen Frauen zum besonderen Interesse und zur professionellen Beschäftigung mit psychiatrischen bzw.

';Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression.

What could be more ingrained in the Jewish psyche as well as pop culture everywhere than the B'nei Mitzvah ceremony?

This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews.

What does it mean to be a Jew?

From Tiberias, With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us.

Inthis volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational,values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidays-festivals and holy days-asfound in the Jewish calendar.

This book presents up-to-date information on the origins of the Ashkenazic Jewish people from central and eastern Europe based on genetic research on modern and pre-modern populations.

This work, the fruit of intense research work spanning several years, examines the first serious attempt by the descendants of the Sephardim-the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492-to "e;return to Sepharad"e; more than three decades after the abolition of the Inquisition.

This book examines the relationship between the rabbinate and politics in religious Zionism during the early years of the State of Israel.

Inthis volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational,values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidays-festivals and holy days-asfound in the Jewish calendar.

The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas.

Hasidic groups have myriad customs.

Israel Shahak was a remarkable man.

Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath.

This brand-new title offers the reader an accessible and chronological presentation of the history and development of this most unique of philosophies.

Tobias Grill focuses on two groups of German Jews who were active in Eastern Europe between ca.

This brand-new title offers the reader an accessible and chronological presentation of the history and development of this most unique of philosophies.

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century.

Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely regarded as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era.

Das Buch stellt einen Schlüsseltext jüdischer Mystik vor.

This work, the fruit of intense research work spanning several years, examines the first serious attempt by the descendants of the Sephardim-the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492-to "e;return to Sepharad"e; more than three decades after the abolition of the Inquisition.

The volume contains the edited papers presented at the 10th international conference of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines held in Budapest in 2022.

William Sharlin (1920-2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist.

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism.

This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B.

A national bestseller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but he impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world.

The Hayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810.

How Rabbi Stephen S.

A new theory of the Talmud''s formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century.

';Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression.

Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely regarded as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era.

The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity, creating a chasm that few believed could be bridged.