Conversion to Judaism provides information, advice, and support for individuals contemplating conversion to Judaism, as well as those who have converted and the families affected by this decision.
A Step-by-Step Guide for Honoring the Dead and Empowering the Living When someone dies, there are so many questions-from what to do in the moment of grief, to dealing with the practical details of the funeral, to spiritual concerns about the meaning of life and death.
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine sheds important light on the stagers of modern Jewish Palestine and on the processes and mechanisms that created the performative lore in other cultures, in ancient as well as modern times.
Boleslaw Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called "e;Jewish question"e; in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus' social concept, reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises.
Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women.
This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years.
This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.
'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London.
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.
All twenty-two original articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference "e;The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage"e;, which was convened in September 2011, at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage.
In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as "e;Los Manzanos"e; ("e;The Apple Trees"e;) but whose name changes to "e;Maimonides"e; (the Jewish sage) depending on which sign you look at.
A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon the things that never change.
