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Tevye's Grandchildren
Author: Eleanor Mallet
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 160899225X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Tevye's Grandchildren: Rediscovering a Jewish Identity, Eleanor Mallet describes the unusual journey she took to understand her Jewish past. Like many American Jews, she was secular, assimilated and part of the successful mainstream. When her sons came of age, they reached for a richer, more open way of being Jewish. Their interest sent her on an exploration in which she plunged into the dynamic and relatively recent field of Jewish history, studied Hebrew and traveled to Israel and Germany. Mallet's book provides a tour, from a personal vantage, of the historical forces that are in play for Jews today. In it she connects the spare outline of her Jewish past with its fleshy, fractured history. Her Judaism had a passionate center, which found expression in part in Israel. Yet it was also filled with the dissonance that flowed from American assimilation and the Holocaust's aftermath. These are the forces that have preoccupied the Jewish community for quite some time. Understanding them has taken on a new urgency with the recent and not always welcome prominence Jewishness and Israel have on today's world stage.
Rediscovering the Jewish Holidays
Author: Nina Beth Cardin
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780874416633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the major Jewish holidays, focusing on established traditions and the creation of new customs and rituals.
The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness
Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1580233678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Takes readers era by era through Jewish history, revealing the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally. Outlines the development of the Jewish faith, people and the major differences among Jewish movements today.
Rediscovering Judaism
Author: Kerry M. Olitzky
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780881255669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study program specially geared to the group of adults becoming adult Bar/Bat mitzvot.
Essential Judaism
Author: George Robinson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 1439117527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →You’ll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide to the religious traditions, everyday practices, philosophical beliefs, and historical foundations of Judaism. What happens at a synagogue service? What are the rules for keeping kosher? How do I light the Hanukah candles? What is in the Hebrew Bible? What do the Jewish holidays signify? What should I be teaching my children about being Jewish? With the first edition of Essential Judaism, George Robinson offered the world the accessible compendium that he sought when he rediscovered his Jewish identity as an adult. In his “ambitious and all-inclusive” (New York Times Book Review) guide, Robinson illuminates the Jewish life cycle at every stage and lays out many fascinating aspects of the religion—the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, the evolution of Hasidism, and much more—while keeping a firm focus on the different paths to living a good Jewish life in today’s world. Now, a decade and a half later, Robinson has updated this valuable introductory text with information on topics including denominational shifts, same-sex marriage, the intermarriage debate, transgender Jews, the growth of anti-Semitism, and the changing role of women in worship, along with many other hotly debated topics in the contemporary Jewish world and beyond. The perfect gift for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah or anyone thinking about conversion—this is the ultimate companion for anyone interested in learning more about Judaism, the kind of book its readers will revisit over and over for years to come.
The Jew in the Lotus
Author: Rodger Kamenetz
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0061745936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues with leading rabbis and Jewish thinkers, including Zalman Schacter, Yitz and Blue Greenberg, and a host of religious and disaffected Jews and Jewish Buddhists. This amazing journey through Tibetan Buddhism and Judaism leads Kamenetz to a renewed appreciation of his living Jewish roots.
On the Wings of Shekhinah
Author: Rabbi Leah Novick
Publisher: Quest Books
Published: 2014-07-07
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0835631168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One effect of rising interest in the Kabbalah is a renewed focus on the Shekhinah, Judaism's divine feminine principle. Written with warmth and clarity, On the Wings of Shekhinah interweaves historical views of this concept with thoughtful quotes and guided meditations. Rabbi Leah Novick offers healing strategies for both Jews and non-Jews disaffected by rigid gender roles. Awareness of the Shekhinah’s energy within and around us helps bring hope to a planet afflicted by war, violence, and environmental abuse — this book shows how to find and use that energy.
No Longer Strangers
Author: Richard Booker
Publisher:
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780961530273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new spiritual season when the Lord is calling both Christians and Jews back to their biblical roots. The biblical root of Christianity is Jewish. This root grew from an everlasting covenant with God made with Abraham. Christians became part of that root through their acceptance of Jesus as Messiah and Lord
When Christians Were Jews (That Is, Now)
Author: Wayne-Danie Berard
Publisher: Cowley Publications
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1461636108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Christians Were Jews tells the story of identity rediscovered. Narrating recent biblical scholarship as a story of family strife, Berard recounts how early Christians dissociated from their Jewish origins and reflects on the spiritual loss suffered by Christianity because of this division. He calls Christians to explore “with open mind and heart . . . the Jewishness not only of Jesus but of themselves.”
