Say Yes to Life: A Book of Thoughts for Better Living reflects a deep understanding of the human condition with all its pain, perplexities, and possibilities.
The events surrounding the holidays molded the foundation of the Jews as a nation and are related to their continuity and survival as Jews throughout history.
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.
Love, Marriage, and Family in the JewishLaw and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language.
"e;The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God.
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?
"e;The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God.
"e;The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God.
Written in the high art style of prophetic witness, The Scroll of Anatiya reveals a new kind of biblical heroine who is fiercely passionate and sensual.
Letters of Light is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, Ma'or va-shemesh, consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Krakow, together with a running commentary and analysis by Aryeh Wineman.
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.
Wenn sich das jüdische Volk als von Gott auserwählt begreift, müssen dann nicht alle anderen Völker demgegenüber logischerweise als zweitrangig erscheinen?
Walter Homolka ist einer der profiliertesten Vertreter des zeitgenössischen Judentums in Deutschland, Gründungsrektor des ersten deutschen Rabbinerseminars nach der Schoa.
Die "Kleine Einführung in das Judentum" informiert knapp und prägnant die über die wichtigsten Themen, die mit jüdischer Religion und jüdischer Geschichte in Verbindung stehen.
In Niedersachsen stößt man an überraschend vielen Stellen auf jüdische Kultur: auf Spuren des kulturellen Erbes, auf Initiativen, auf Projekte, in denen es um Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft jüdischer Kultur im Land geht, auf Kooperationen mit Israel.
Ausgelöst durch ein Landgerichtsurteil wurde im Sommer 2012 in der Öffentlichkeit eine intensive Diskussion über die Zulässigkeit der religiösen Beschneidung an Jungen, ein zentrales Ritual des Judentums und des Islam, geführt.
The study assesses the main issues in the current debate about the early history of Pesach and Easter and provides new insights into the development of these two festivals.
Much of the primary research summarized here relates to Cambridge Genizah manuscripts, a thousand-year-old source that testifies to liturgical (as well, of course, as non-liturgical) developments that greatly predate other source material.
