Judaism: life and practice

An inspiring how-to guide to help you understand and participate in a Jewish spiritual life.

The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was.

This book surveys the Jewish Law of testimony as presented in the Talmud and its boundaries on loyalty in non-Jewish courts.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

Keeping God at the Center is informative as well as instructional.

Educating Palestine, through the story of education and the teaching of history in Mandate Palestine, reframes our understanding of the Palestinian and Zionist national movements.

The official prayer book for Orthodox Jews in the UK, with supporting commentary by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

"e;Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating.

Flashes of insight-surprising, entertaining, inspiring-from one of the most creative spiritual thinkers in America.

Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colorful rabbinic authority in Algiers.

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Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes.

The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish.

Offers inspiration and guidance to help you make greater meaning and flourish amid the challenges of aging.

Passover and Easter constitute for Jews and Christians respectively the most important festivals of the year.

The classic guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism is now updated for the first time in 15 years to reflect changes in the modern Jewish community.

In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod's posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka's manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Third Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for 88 figure variations.

A Vital, Living Judaism Can Be Found When the Voice of the Past Engages Modern Experience"e;[This] synthesis of tradition and modernity is not a philosophy meant to serve as the platform for a new movement or institution, but a process of living experience among individuals and communities that choose to adopt its angle of vision.

The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship.

Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century.

Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Judaism, but is often neglected.

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

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity.

Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty years and continues to be an influential leader in the Los Angeles and wider American Jewish community.

How do we find meaning in our life?

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

If you've ever been uncomfortable or confused by the conventional wisdom of traditional religious beliefs, read this book.

A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades.

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Fresh, Useful Perspectives on the Spiritual Dynamics of Prayer Better music, better sermons and better prayer books can only go so far.

The Miriam Tradition works from the premise that religious values form in and through movement, with ritual and dance developing patterns for enacting those values.

If you were to ask ten people, Who started Christianity?

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name).

This book sets out new theoretical foundations for Jewish social justice education by surveying and discussing Freirean critical pedagogy, Catholic models of social justice education, Jewish social justice literature and interviews with educators and activists.

In volume one of this multi-volume series, Marc Ellis explores the essence of the prophetic by intertwining the context of ordinary life and the explosive reality of Jewish identity, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.

This book is a practical and inspirational companion to the conversion process for Jews-by-Choice and their families.

Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

This book examines the interpretation of biblical law in the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient Judaism.

Mehr als 75 Jahre nach dem Holocaust erstarkt der Antisemitismus in Europa wieder.

How does Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name).

Mystical and practical wisdom-for daily life.