Psychologist and folklorist Michele Klein draws upon many rich sources--prayers, folktales, folk remedies, as well as biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature--to explore childbirth from a specif...
This amazingly simple book leads us through both the understanding and the actions needed to live up to the best of our intentions. The educational, religious and political aspects of the AIDS crisis ...
Advance Praise for "Hope, Not Fear ""Edgar M. Bronfman's new, provocative volume is a Jewish leader's personal quest for new answers to timeless questions; it will certainly challenge many readers c...
A monumental event in the publishing history of English-language reference books on the subjects of Jewish mystical thought and practice.
The Koren Sacks Siddur is the first new Orthodox Hebrew/English siddur in a generation. The Siddur marks the culmination of years of rabbinic scholarship, exemplifies Koren's tradition of textual accu...
This book will help readers make better, more informed choices as they or their loved ones face: the onset of a terminal illness or an incurable, chronic, debilitating condition; a lengthy period of d...
This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice. All rituals, including sacrifice, communicate social beliefs and morality, but thes...
In this fascinating photo-essay, Dale Lieberman exposes the myriad of emotions experienced by the witnesses of bris milah, ritual circumcision. The various aspects of the ceremony and its participants...
"(In) a multi-layered book of great warmth and feeling, (Evans) reminds us anew of the Jewish southern inheritance, its ancient intensities and rhythms and heartbeats. This is a very southern book, an...
By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, "Jews and Feminism" questions the very terms of this social "contract." Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish...
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