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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874413908Author Harry GershFormat PaperbackImprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867050172Author Gale Solotar WarshawskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alternatives in Religious EducationPublisher Alternatives in Religious...

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: David Lerman and Shelley Wallock; D. Walter Cohen, Wendy and Leonard Cooper; Rabbi Howard Gorin; Gittel and Alan Hilibrand; Marjorie and Jeffrey Major; Jeanette Lerman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655242676Author Daniel ShulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Urim PublicationsPublisher Urim PublicationsWeight(grams) 330g

The contemporary rabbi is influenced by the modern rabbinic establishments throughout the world, including the rabbinate in Israel. The rabbinate's monopoly on opinions and interpretations prevents rabbis from expressing their individual positions out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655241969Author Aryeh CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 105Imprint Urim PublicationsPublisher Urim PublicationsWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652293848Author Noam ZimmermanFormat HardbackPage Count 62Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing House

This collection of essays is dedicated to Prof. Yosef Kaplan upon his retirement from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as Bernhard Cherrick Professor of the History of the Jewish People. Under the title Mapping Jewish Amsterdam: The Early Modern...

National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Winner of the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies and Finalist for Education and Jewish Identity.Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded...

Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff’s pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends ultimately on our conceptions of the nature of human beings and God; how...

"Perceptions of Jewish History scintillates with original ideas and insights. It will appeal to a broad audience." (Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame). "Students of the Jewish past will welcome this volume; it will also attract...

Emotions have increasingly attracted the attention of the sciences and academia. The topic is all the more timely since we have witnessed a global trend towards highly emotionalized discourses across societies and religions. Discourses are less guided by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580230117Author David HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and setting. But underneath that energy, we are not as clear as we ought to be about desired outcomes, the kinds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874411577Author Joseph H HertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Prior to the latest chief rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry's highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably...

Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry's highest ecclesiastical post. In the end, only six were installed to see out their terms of office. The manner of these appointments was...

The Dictionary of Jewish Proverbs offers the reader a comprehensive insight into the world of Jewish wisdom. It comes in the form of an A-Z Dictionary and represents probably the biggest single collection ever published, with a total of over 4,000...

The object of this book is to engage in a dialogue with the millions of the indifferent, the undecided, the don't knows and the don't cares who carry on pretending without any real conviction.Book InformationISBN 9781573922678Author David IbryFormat...

In The Unifying Factor, Nekhama Schoenburg posits that Kabbalistic tradition provides us with the unification theory that modern science is searching for. Kabbalah is not a composite of fairy tales or fantastical superstitions, but rather it is the...

David Novak, one of the most distinguished Jewish theologians in the world, offers a new interpretation of how the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition talk about God. What does the Torah say about God? How does the God of the Torah talk about Godself?...

This book deals comprehensively with different aspects of collective victimhood in contemporary Israel, but also with the wider implications of this important concept for many other societies, including the Palestinian one. The eight highly-diverse,...

An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel In recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to dissuade Orthodox Jews from creating large families, an objective that flies in the face of traditional...

In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349213306Author Daniel Cohn-SherbokFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 251g

Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion, the opening of the human heart to God's presence, to be the purpose of its entire edifice of praxis, liturgy, and way of life. This voice is not always easy to hear...

The phenomenal rise of Yiddish language and culture is one of the most interesting and colorful sagas of modern Jewish history. In this significant book, Dr. Goldsmith relates the growth of Yiddish to the explosion of Jewish literature, the surge of...

Impossible Images brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture,...

In this unique collection of essays, some of today's smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality. In the last few decades a number of factors-post-modernism,...

Every morning Jewish men offering their prayers to God in the traditional manner include the line Blessed are you Lord our God, King of the universe who has not made me a woman. Regardless of one's interpretation of this line, it is an inescapable fact...

This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.About the AuthorDavid Ruderman.Book InformationISBN 9780814774205Author David RudermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University...

In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new...

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura...

Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published-or even read-to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender,...

A comprehensive view of the history, beliefs and practices, and sociology of the Hasidic movement founded by Israel Baal Sheen Tov, this simultaneously provides a reflection of the development of the scholarly understanding of Hasidism from the 18th...

Mordecai M. Kaplan, a pioneering figure in the reinterpretation and redefinition of Judaism in the 20th century, embraced religious liberalism, naturalism, and empiricism, and gave expression to a unique American attitude in philosophy and theology. This...

Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the...

What does it mean to be a Jewish woman today? To an Orthodox woman, it means living a religious way of life in which serving God totally defines her self-perception and her role as wife and mother. For the secular woman, it means having a sense of...

What does it mean to be a Jewish woman today? To an Orthodox woman, it means living a religious way of life in which serving God totally defines her self-perception and her role as wife and mother. For the secular woman, it means having a sense of...

In recent decades, religious fundamentalism has played an increasingly significant role in Western and Middle Eastern politics and culture. In this volume, an international group of scholars from fields such as religious studies, sociology, political...