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Author : Josh Barkin
Publisher : Torah Aura Productions
ISBN 13 : 1934527084
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)
Download or read book God written by Josh Barkin and published by Torah Aura Productions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbinical students, young Jewish teachers and other young Jews give their personal answers to difficult questions about God.
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827608624
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices written by Elliot N. Dorff and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we use power once we?ve gained it? Is it completely for our individual benefit, or do we use it to help our neighborhoods, or society at-large? What kinds of decisions must CEOs and business owners make regarding suppliers and customers? How should bosses treat workers? Teachers treat students? Parents treat children? Government treats citizens? Power dynamics affect people on a political level, a social level, and a deeply personal level as well. The newest volume in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series examines these dynamics and includes essays by such fine contributors as U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, NBC Universal Television-West Coast President Marc Graboff, and author and scholar James Diamond.
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827609558
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices written by Elliot N. Dorff and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the newest addition to the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series, co-editors Elliot Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg have brought together a diverse group of Jews to comment on how Judaism affects their views and actions regarding sex. Contributors range from adult movie actor Ron Jeremy, to renowned feminist scholar Martha Ackelsberg, to noted writer and blogger Esther Kustanowitz, as well as rabbis, doctors, social workers, and activists. They discuss issues of monogamy, honesty, and communication in dating and marriage; testing for and disclosure of STDs; abortion, sex education, sex work, and sexuality. Each volume in this series presents hypothetical cases on specific topics, followed by traditional and contemporary sources. Supplementing these are brief essays, written by contributors of various ages, backgrounds, and viewpoints to provoke lively thought and discussion. These voices from Jewish tradition and today’s Jewish community present us with new questions and perspectives, encouraging us to consider our own moral choices in a new light.
Author : Susan Weidman Schneider
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Jewish and Female written by Susan Weidman Schneider and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1984 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874415810
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Choices in Modern Jewish Thought written by Eugene B. Borowitz and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.
Author : Bernard Lazerwitz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410239
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Jewish Choices written by Bernard Lazerwitz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a religious preference and expressing it via a denominational choice is a fundamental way Americans relate to their society. Similarly, American Jews have divided their religion into four parts—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and no preference Jews. This book focuses on how Jewish lifestyles are expressed through denominational affiliation. The development of American Jewish denominations is viewed as more a matter of individual choice than family heritage. The characteristics of individual adherents of the three major denominations vary systematically as does one's involvement both in local Jewish communities and in the community-at-large. The authors show that as one goes from Orthodox to no preference Jews, the extent of religious expression, ethnic attachments, and Jewish community involvement declines. They project the distribution of denominational preference in 2010 and conclude with recommendations for those who wish to see Jewish identity survive and thrive in America.
Author : Michael Laitman
Publisher : Laitman Kabbalah Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1671872207
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism written by Michael Laitman and published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism is like no other book you have ever read about Jews, about history, or about anti-Semitism. As its title suggests, it draws a direct link between Jewish unity and a rise in anti-Semitism, including the current wave. Assuming such a correlation is so extraordinary, you could easily brush it off as a provocation were it not documented in hundreds of books, essays, and letters throughout history. Beginning in ancient Babylon and ending in America, Babylon’s modern counterpart, the author masterfully draws parallels and connects the dots of history like none have done before. By the end of the book, you will know the reason for the oldest hatred, how it can be dissolved, and how Jews and non-Jews alike will benefit as a result.
Author : Evgeny Finkel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884926
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Jews written by Evgeny Finkel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violence Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for understanding the survival strategies in which Jews engaged: cooperation and collaboration, coping and compliance, evasion, and resistance. Finkel compares Jews' behavior in three Jewish ghettos—Minsk, Kraków, and Białystok—and shows that Jews' responses to Nazi genocide varied based on their experiences with prewar policies that either promoted or discouraged their integration into non-Jewish society. Finkel demonstrates that while possible survival strategies were the same for everyone, individuals' choices varied across and within communities. In more cohesive and robust Jewish communities, coping—confronting the danger and trying to survive without leaving—was more organized and successful, while collaboration with the Nazis and attempts to escape the ghetto were minimal. In more heterogeneous Jewish communities, collaboration with the Nazis was more pervasive, while coping was disorganized. In localities with a history of peaceful interethnic relations, evasion was more widespread than in places where interethnic relations were hostile. State repression before WWII, to which local communities were subject, determined the viability of anti-Nazi Jewish resistance. Exploring the critical influences shaping the decisions made by Jews in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, Ordinary Jews sheds new light on the dynamics of collective violence and genocide.
Author : Albert Vorspan
Publisher : Urj Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807406502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice written by Albert Vorspan and published by Urj Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two of the nation's leading Jewish social activists, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice brings together Jewish perspective, on and moral analyses of scores of urgent issues. Abortion, capital punishment, Mideast peace, and religious pluralism are just a few of the significant and controversial subjects fearlessly tackled in this landmark book.
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827611242
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices written by Elliot N. Dorff and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we expand health care coverage to more Americans? Are hate crimes legislation and affirmative action fair? What sacrifices must we make to protect the environment? Is the death penalty morally acceptable? Contributors include Jill Jacobs, of Jewish Funds for Justice; Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center; and TV commentator and UCLA law professor Laurie Levenson.
Author : Amy K. Milligan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739183664
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women written by Amy K. Milligan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Milligan uses an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach to consider the lived religious cultural experiences of Orthodox Jewish women living in a small community. Through an investigation of hair and head covering, Milligan explores the meaning of tradition in a contemporary context.
Author : Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791435816
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Jewish Choices written by Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how and why Jewish denominational preferences are more a matter of individual choice than family heritage.
Author : David Ellenson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 082761182X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice written by David Ellenson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.
Author : Robert H. Mnookin
Publisher : Platform Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781735996837
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Jewish American Paradox written by Robert H. Mnookin and published by Platform Books, LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship of American Jews to Israel? Can the American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity? The situation of American Jews today is deeply paradoxical. Jews have achieved unprecedented integration, influence, and esteem in virtually every facet of American life. But this extraordinarily diverse community now also faces four critical and often divisive challenges: rampant intermarriage, weak religious observance, diminished cohesion in the face of waning anti-Semitism, and deeply conflicting views about Israel. Can the American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity in light of these challenges? Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship of American Jews to Israel? In this thoughtful and perceptive book, Robert H. Mnookin argues that the answers of the past no longer serve American Jews today. The book boldly promotes a radically inclusive American-Jewish community--one where being Jewish can depend on personal choice and public self-identification, not simply birth or formal religious conversion. Instead of preventing intermarriage or ostracizing those critical of Israel, he envisions a community that embraces diversity and debate, and in so doing, preserves and strengthens the Jewish identity into the next generation and beyond.
Author : Adam Rayski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Choice of the Jews Under Vichy written by Adam Rayski and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is France that, along with Germany, has persecuted the most Jews." Spoken at the beginning of 1943, this phrase was not a denunciation, but an unashamed assertion by André Lavagne, the chief of Marshal Pétain's civil cabinet. Indeed, France's leadership stood prominently among the governments of occupied Europe in its initiative and zeal in collaborating with the Nazis. Yet nearly three-quarters of the Jews living in France at the beginning of the war survived the "Final Solution." How was this possible? And what considerations motivated many prominent representatives of French Jewry, at least initially, to submit to the antisemitic measures of Vichy? Adam Rayski addresses these and other important questions in The Choice of the Jews under Vichy. He writes from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. Based on extensive research into previously unpublished sources, including the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, police prefectures, and Philippe Pétain, Rayski clearly demonstrates the Vichy government's role as an accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He also explores the sizeable prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews. This manifested itself in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in varied initial responses to the antisemitic edicts and actions of the Vichy government. Rayski reveals how these communities eventually set aside their differences and united to resist the Vichy-supported Nazi threat. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Author : Brenda Forster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jews by Choice written by Brenda Forster and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ĭokhanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300137316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Anti-imperial Choice written by Ĭokhanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial, these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-language writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati as Jews fuelled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cause. Providing extensive historical background, biographical detail, and analysis of each writer’s poetry and prose, Petrovsky-Shtern shows how a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition emerged. Along the way, he challenges assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian-Jewish relations.
