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.
Man Is Not Alone is a profound, beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence, explores it, accepts it, and builds life upon it.
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.
When Alfred Schwab was given the opportunity to meet a contactan incorporeal entity who had been communicating with someone Alfred barely knewhe was skeptical, to say the least.
The authors of Searching for God: Study Partners Explore Contemporary Jewish Texts introduce self-directed hevruta, a novel twist on the traditional Jewish path of in-depth learning with a study partner.
A result of more than fifteen years of research and study, Prophecy: Past, Present, and Future examines the Bibles Book of Daniel and its predictions of some of historys major events.
Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah.
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.
Jewish armed resistance during the Holocaust has been amply documented, debunking the stereotypical view of the Jews as passive victims of Hitler and the Nazis.
The Journey of the Soul: Traditional Sources on Teshuvah is dedicated to the process of self-discovery through Teshuvah (commonly translated as repentance).
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.
Organized by subject, this is a collection of teachings and quotations from the Talmud, the Bible, rabbinical commentaries, and ancient and modern religious and secular writings.
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.
The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable.
The stories presented in Peninnah Schram's highly anticipated Stories within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition are drawn primarily from talmudic and midrashic sources, medieval texts, and the Israel Folktale Archives.
