A fresh and enlightening study that examines the creation and success of Orthodox Jewish communities within the secular culture of North American suburbia. Diamond uses the example of Toronto, home to...
Despite her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Winner finds that her life is still shaped by the spiritual essences of Judaism. Here, she illuminates 11 spiritual practices that can tra...
During the German "Kulturkampf" in the 1870s, the Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch enjoined all Jews of his community to exercise a right given by Prussian law: to withdraw from the united commun...
Everything you always wanted to ASK about the Chareidim, but were afraid to KNOW Orthodox Judaism from the perspective of the Chareidim Chareidization - It's the newest term in the book. And it has ma...
'Years from now, this work will likely be seen as a primary text that formed part of the internal Jewish debate.' ~ N. R. Deutsch, Choice --- 'Passionate, powerful, brilliant...This is simply the most...
Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, examines ways of mending the schism between Reform and Orthodox Judaism, between religious and secular Jews in Israel, and be...
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent Lithuanian Orthodox family, was one of the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. Afte...
Explores the sometimes surprising intersection of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's rootedness in the halakhic tradition with his genuine responsiveness to modern Western theology.
From Suburb to Shtetl is an outstanding ethnography that moves beyond simple demographics. Mayer weaves an intricate tapestry of how family, school, and community leaders influence each other. Whether...
For seven years, Rifka Rosenwein voiced the pleasures and frustrations of her life in "The Home Front," a monthly column in The New York Jewish Week. Whether discussing religion and family, her torchb...
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