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Embracing Judaism

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Author : Simcha Kling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Embracing Judaism written by Simcha Kling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Religion categories.

A Book Of Life

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Author : Michael Strassfeld
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 2002

A Book Of Life written by Michael Strassfeld and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.

A comprehensive guide to Jewish spiritual practices, with explanations based on Talmudic and Midrashic texts as well as Hasidic and mystical stories, includes a survey of daily prayers, Shabbat rituals, holidays, Torah study, Jewish meditation, and more.

Embracing Judaism

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Author : Simcha Kling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Embracing Judaism written by Simcha Kling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Religion categories.

Judaism S Ten Best Ideas

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Author : Arthur Green
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-01

Judaism S Ten Best Ideas written by Arthur Green and has been published by Jewish Lights Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Religion categories.

A welcoming introduction to the most important ideas in Judaism. In an age of fluid identity, many people are honestly asking the question “Why be Jewish?” What in this religious and ethnic legacy is worth preserving? Does Judaism have something unique to offer a contemporary seeker free to choose a way of life and a system of values? Here is the answer of a leading spiritual teacher who has faced these questions in conversation with generations of students. With warmth, humor, personal and rabbinic stories and down-to-earth explanations, Arthur Green presents the ideas in Judaism that kept him loyal to the tradition passed on to him. The result is an enticing look into timeless Jewish wisdom that will encourage you to explore further and search out the riches of Judaism for yourself.

Jewish Feminism

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Author : Esther Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-03-12

Jewish Feminism written by Esther Fuchs and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Religion categories.

In the last three decades, hundreds of books and essays have been published on women, gender, and Jewish Studies. This burgeoning scholarship has not been adequately theorized, contextualized, or historicized. This book argues that Jewish feminist studies is currently constrained by multiple frames of reference that require re-examination, a self-critical awareness, and a serious reflective inquiry into the models, paradigms, and assumptions that inform, shape, and define this area of academic interest. This book is the first critical analysis of Jewish feminist scholarship, tracing it from its tentative beginnings in the late 1970s to contemporary academic articulations of its disciplinary projects. It focuses on the assumptions, evasions, omissions, inconsistencies, and gaps in this scholarship, and notably the absence of debate, contestation, and interrogation of authoritative articulations of its presumed goals, investments, and priorities. The book teases out implicit thinking about mapping, direction, and orientation from introductions to leading anthologies and engages critically with the few explicitly theoretical works on Jewish feminist studies, contesting ideas that have become hegemonic in some areas, and interrogating the limitations these theories impose on future trajectories in Jewish feminist studies. Each chapter outlines the theoretical assumptions that inform salient publications in the field, providing a close reading of scholarly texts that justify certain practices. The book is divided into four chapters, each of which focuses on a different frame of reference. It outlines the way in which the various frames that have so far been imposed on Jewish feminism, the ethnocentric, liberal, personal, masculinist, and essentialist, have arrested its theoretical elaboration and articulation. The book includes both interdisciplinary anthologies on gender and Jewish identity and disciplinary publications in history, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and Holocaust studies.

Judaism In America

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Author : Marc Lee Raphael
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-20

Judaism In America written by Marc Lee Raphael and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-20 with Religion categories.

Jews have been a religious and cultural presence in America since the colonial era, and the community of Jews in the United States today—some six million people—continues to make a significant contribution to the American religious landscape. Emphasizing developments in American Judaism in the last quarter century among active participants in Jewish worship, this book provides both a look back into the 350-year history of Judaic life and a well-crafted portrait of a multifaceted tradition today. Combining extensive research into synagogue archival records and secondary sources as well as interviews and observations of worship services at more than a hundred Jewish congregations across the country, Raphael's study distinguishes itself as both a history of the Judaic tradition and a witness to the vitality and variety of contemporary American Judaic life. Beginning with a chapter on beliefs, festivals, and life-cycle events, both traditional and non-traditional, and an explanation of the enormous variation in practice, Raphael then explores Jewish history in America, from the arrival of the first Jews to the present, highlighting the emergence and development of the four branches: Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform. After documenting the considerable variety among the branches, the book addresses issues of some controversy, notably spirituality, conversion, homosexuality, Jewish education, synagogue architecture, and the relationship to Israel. Raphael turns next to a discussion of eight American Jews whose thoughts and/or activities made a huge impact on American Judaism. The final chapter focuses on the return to tradition in every branch of Judaism and examines prospects for the future.

A Day Apart How Jews Christians And Muslims Find Faith Freedom And Joy On The Sabbath

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Author : Christopher D. Ringwald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007

A Day Apart How Jews Christians And Muslims Find Faith Freedom And Joy On The Sabbath written by Christopher D. Ringwald and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.

The Sabbath is the original feast day, a day of joy and freedom from work, a holy day that allows us to reconnect with God, our fellows and nature. Now, in a compelling blend of journalism, scholarship and personal memoir, Christopher D. Ringwald examines the Sabbath from Creation to the present, weaving together the stories of three families, three religions and three thousand years of history. A Day Apart is the first book to examine the Sabbath in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A marvelously readable book, it offers a fascinating portrait of the basics of the three Sabbaths--the Muslim Juma on Friday, the Jewish Shabbat on Saturday and the Christian Lord's Day on Sunday--and introduces us to three families, including Ringwald's own, and shows how they observe the holy day and what it means to them. The heart of the book recounts the history of the Sabbath, ranging from the Creation story and Moses on Mount Sinai, to the teachings of Jesus and Muhammad, the impact of the Protestant Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of the modern weekend. Ringwald shows that the Sabbath instinct, to observe a special day of withdrawal and repose, is universal. Indeed, all religions and philosophies teach that life is more than toil, that time should be set aside for contemplation, enjoyment and culture. In today's frantic 24/7 world, the Sabbath--a day devoted to rest and contemplation--has never been more necessary. A Day Apart offers a portrait of a truly timeless way to escape the everyday world and add meaning to our lives.

Jewry Between Tradition And Secularism

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Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-05-01

Jewry Between Tradition And Secularism written by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Social Science categories.

Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana’a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe to Judaism? The analysis shows that the Jewish identity is multiple and can be explained by considering all variants as “surface structures” of the three universal “deep structures” central to the notion of collective identity, namely, collective commitment, perceptions of the collective’s singularity, and positioning vis-à-vis “others.”

Ch 1 8

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Author : Augustus J. Thébaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878

Ch 1 8 written by Augustus J. Thébaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Church history categories.

Go Ye And See

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Author : Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885

Go Ye And See written by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Bible categories.