Selected Topics in Philosophy is an eclectic mix of various topics in philosophy including the nature of language, epistemology, ethics, the nature of religion and literature, metaphysics, existentialism and transcendentalism.
This text investigates the relationship of naming and being called by name to lived experience, and then reflects about and relates these experiences to a spiritual quest.
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.
The South Side is a quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago's far South Side in the optimistic years after World War II, rapidly and dramatically changed to a middle-class black community in the 1960s.
This book reveals the three key rules for raising Jewishly ethical children, and the three holidays that can help you teach them the most important values of Judaism.
There is an unique relationship that exists between the Jewish mystical teachings of Kabbalah and the highest spiritual philosophy of the Hindus, the Vedanta.
At the beginning of this new millennium there is an increasing tension between the doctrines of both orthodox Christianity and Judaism, and the changing beliefs of modern society.
Barbara Hantman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, with a Master's Degree in the Teaching of English from Teachers College, Columbia University.
When Words Fail: A Religious Response to Undeserved Hurt is written for the pastoral counselor as well as for all those who accept the teachings of their respective religious traditions and the insights of the behavioral sciences as being indispensable tools in the healing process.
At the dawn of the 21st Century, in a time when secular humanism and unbiblical religions are vying for the hearts, minds and souls of people all around the globe, MESSIAH IS COMING presents an overview of some of the messianic prophecies found throughout the Jewish Holy Scriptures, the Tanakh.
Conversos of the Americas highlights a barbaric and gruesome religious episode, namely the Spanish-Portuguese Inquisition, Spanish Civil War, and explores the subtle and hidden identity of the New World Hispanics, most of whom are descendants of Jews who have merged with Native Peoples of the Americas and from Africa.
Rabbi Safran's compelling book about the need to incorporate the traditional view of modesty if we are to save our children from the superficiality, the decadence and the damaging influences of our modern, "e;progressive"e; society, opens with a simple question, "e;What can an Orthodox rabbi tell me about my children or my life?
The Torahs Seventy Faces: Commentaries on the Weekly SidrahCompiled by Simcha RazEdited with an Introduction by Dov Peretz ElkinsThe weekly Torah portions have served throughout history as a treasure for teaching and preaching, for law and lore, for discussion and dialog.
El 2 de Agosto de 1492 dos dramas tomaron lugar al mismo tiempo en los puertos de Espaa; la bsqueda de nuevas rutas hacia la India, y el ltimo da para que los judos pudieran permanecer en Espaa.
Vivir Como Judo captura de forma instructiva la esencia del judasmo moderno, demostrando tanto sus races en la tradicin como su abrazo a la modernidad.
El 2 de Agosto de 1492 dos dramas tomaron lugar al mismo tiempo en los puertos de Espaa; la bsqueda de nuevas rutas hacia la India, y el ltimo da para que los judos pudieran permanecer en Espaa.
