A Handbook For The Jewish Home
Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch, celebrated author of The Jewish Books of Why, has helped a generation understand the reasons behind Jewish law, custom, and ritual. Now, in A Handbook for the Jewish Home, he ...
The Sabbath World: Glimpses Of A Different Order Of Time
"Everyone curls up inside a Sabbath at some point or other. Religion need not be involved." The Sabbath is not just the holy day of rest. It's also a utopian idea about a less pressured, more soci...
Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story Of The Yiddish Language Movement
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...
You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory In American Passover Ritual
Liora Gubkin explains why it is important to make a space for Holocaust commemoration, while recognizing that haggadot must be constantly revisited and "performed."
Honest Answers To Your Child's Jewish Questions: A Rabbi's Insights
What do you say when your five-year old asks, ?What does God look like?? or ?Why am I Jewish?? By middle school the questions are tougher: ?Is the Torah true?? ?Why do I have to learn Hebrew?? This in...
Finding Each Other In Judaism
In this thoughtful new book, Rabbi Schulweis explores Jewish life-cycle passages such as birth; bar/bat mitzvah, conversion, marriage, illness, and the end of life. These meditations on the events and...
Inside Intermarriage: A Christian Partner's Perspective On Raising A Jewish Family
The author of this much-needed book is a Christian father helping his Jewish wife raise Jewish children. Together, they have made many tough decisions. It's no secret that interfaith marriages are com...
Bagels And Grits: A Jew On The Bayou
Leaving the East Coast and volunteering in an AIDS hospice in Baton Rouge, Moses encountered Catholics and Evangelical Christians, nurses, ex-cons, streetwalkers, and impoverished AIDS patients--all p...
The Shabbat Elevator And Other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay On Circumventing Custom And Jewish Character
This book focuses on the topic of circumventing custom with special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden o...
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic And Christian Reconstructions Of Biblical Gender
" This book is of central importance in the field of Rabbinic studies and the history of Judaism in late antiquity. The originality of Fonrobert' s work lies in the skill and nuance with which she bri...
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