American Post-Judaism
Author: Shaul Magid
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0253008026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness
Author: Shaul Magid
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0253008026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness
Author: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1442213299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This powerful memoir chronicles the life of one of America’s most celebrated rabbis—Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, or “Reb Zalman” as he is fondly known to friends and followers. The book traces his life from a youth in the shadow of the Nazis through the tumultuous 1960s in America to his position as a renowned religious leader today. Often controversial for his attraction to cultural mavericks and religious rebels, Reb Zalman’s colorful lifetime includes a striking cast of characters across faith traditions, including Timothy Leary, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, and more. The book traces Reb Zalman’s work creating the vibrant Jewish Renewal movement that emphasizes spiritual experience and continues to touch Jews around the world today. Reb Zalman often illustrates his talks with anecdotes from his life, and My Life in Jewish Renewal brings together the life story of this beloved leader for the first time. Reb Zalman often illustrates his talks with stories from his life, and My Life in Jewish Renewal brings together the complete life story of this beloved leader for the first time.
Author: Barbara Dowd Wright
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 0595361072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eitan P. Fishbane
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781611681925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An anthology that explores religious and social revival in American Judaism in the 19th century
Author: Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 023113729X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living all over the United States. A pulpit rabbi and himself an American Jew, Dana Evan Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution of the 1960s and the multiple postmodern identities of today. From Hebrew tattooing to Jewish Buddhist meditation, Kaplan describes the remaking of historical tradition in ways that channel multiple ethnic and national identities. While pessimists worry about the vanishing American Jew, Kaplan focuses on creative responses to contemporary spiritual trends that have made a Jewish religious renaissance possible. He believes that the reorientation of American Judaism has been a "bottom up" process, resisted by elites who have reluctantly responded to the demands of the "spiritual marketplace." The American Jewish denominational structure is therefore weakening at the same time that religious experimentation is rising, leading to the innovative approaches supplanting existing institutions. The result is an exciting transformation of what it means to be a religious American Jew in the twenty-first century.
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0691202516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies—an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who remain active struggle to reconcile their hallowed traditions with new perspectives—from feminism and the LGBTQ movement to "do-it-yourself religion" and personally defined spirituality. Taking a fresh look at American Judaism today, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of various orientations practice their religion in this radically altered landscape. Which observances still resonate, and which ones have been given new meaning? What options are available for seekers or those dissatisfied with conventional forms of Judaism? And how are synagogues responding? Offering new and often-surprising answers to these questions, Wertheimer reveals an American Jewish landscape that combines rash disruption and creative reinvention, religious illiteracy and dynamic experimentation.
Author: Michael Lerner
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lerner maintains that there are two voices in the Torah that have contended with each other throughout Jewish history: the voice of accumulated pain and cruelty that is passed from generation to generation and that masquerades as a patriarchal god, and the voice of God, whose massage of healing and compassion insists the world can be fundamentally transformed. Neoconservatives and some right-wing Israelis have used the Holocaust to justify a Judaism that is cynically "realistic" and demeaning of non-Jews. But that tendency to do unto others what was done to us can be overcome, Lerner says, and Jewish renewal attunes us to the voice of God and strengthens our ability to recognize the image of the divine in every human being.
Author: Sid Schwarz
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1580231853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like countless others of their generation, many contemporary American Jews have abandoned the religion of their birth to search for a spiritual home in other traditions.
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1611681839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
Author: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1425126987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book about Jewish practice through the lens of personal transformation and global consciousness, Reb Zalman applies his mystical vision to Halachah, the expression of vision in life's details.