Orthodox

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978804227Author Marcin WodzinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony: Trends in Israeli Haredi Culture is a study of contemporary ultra-Orthodox religiosity in Israel. This book analyses the on-going reconstruction of Haredi culture in Israel, a process which has been spurred on by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936068166Author Shalom HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Devora Publishing CompanyPublisher Devora Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 422g

This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analyzed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik's work, and his writings describing and analyzing the experience of prayer afford a...

This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analyzed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik's work, and his writings describing and analyzing the experience of prayer afford a...

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The ultra-Orthodox yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, is a space reserved for men, and for a focus on religious ideals. Fundamentalist forms of piety are usually believed to be quite resistant to change. In Yeshiva...

Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to...

Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women...

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of...

This work presents the issues of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America, from the decades of the twenties to the sixties, by looking at the activities of one of its leaders, Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, pulpit rabbi, community leader and writer, whose career spanned...

This book presents the issues and challenges of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America from the 1920s to the 1960s and discusses the economic, social, and political influences that impacted on its development. This is the story of the renaissance of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652298003Author Yissachar Dov KrakowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652298072Author Rabbi Shmuel HerzfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652296665Author Shmuel HerzfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 444g

Despite its outwardly static and traditional appearance, the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world is engaged in a constant cultural dialogue with modernity. This dialogue is exceptionally visible in the realm of language as shown in this study that examines the...

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as workers'...

Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook's seminal work on repentance, Oros HaTeshuvah, is recognized as a classic of Jewish thought but has, because of its difficult language and its theological depth, remained inaccessible to many. This book presents readers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652297402Author David Kuhr MosheFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 448g

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but...

Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684580514Author Tamar RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University PressWeight(grams) 159g

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as workers'...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its beginnings,...