Essential Judaism Updated Edition

• Author : George Robinson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2016-04-12
• ISBN : 9781501117756

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,

• Author : Milton Steinberg,Harcourt, Brace & World
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release Date : 1947
• ISBN : 0156106981

A rabbi introduces Gentiles to the origins, doctrines, traditions, practices, laws, institutions, and beliefs of the Jewish religion

• Author : George Robinson
• Publisher : Schocken
• Release Date : 2008-12-17
• ISBN : 9780307484376

Whether you are thinking about studying the Bible for the first time or you’re simply curious about its history and contents, you will find everything you need in Essential Torah. George Robinson, author of the acclaimed Essential Judaism, begins by recounting the various theories of the origins of the Torah and goes on to explain its importance as the core element in Jewish belief and practice. He discusses the basics of Jewish theology and Jewish history as they are

• Author : Mordechai Katz
• Publisher : Mesorah Publications
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : 1578195179

What does the Torah say that makes it relevant to today? How can we understand the mitzvos? Why should I believe? Why be Jewish? What does a Jew have to do? Is science an enemy of Judaism?JEP has answers. For decades, the Jewish Education Prog

• Author : Eliezer Berkovits
• Publisher : Shalem Press
• Release Date : 2002
• ISBN : 9657052033

The essay "Faith after the Holocaust" (pp. 315-332) is an excerpt from his book "Faith after the Holocaust" (New York: Ktav, 1973).

• Author : Michael Strassfeld
• Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 1580232477

Charts a path to a spiritually rich Judaism, explaining traditional rituals and offering new ones for modern life. Encourages daily spiritual awareness as we seek the two fundamental goals of Judaism: to become better humans and to be in God's presence.

• Author : Kari H. Tuling
• Publisher : JPS Essential Judaism
• Release Date : 2020
• ISBN : 9780827613010

Investigating how Jewish thinkers from the biblical to the postmodern era have approached questions about God and highlighting interplays between texts over time, Rabbi Kari H. Tuling elucidates many compelling--and contrasting--ways to think about God in Jewish tradition.

• Author : Jeremy Cohen
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release Date : 1991-03-01
• ISBN : 9780814714430

• Author : Kenneth Seeskin
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release Date : 2020-09
• ISBN : 9780827618541

Rethinking the great literary prophets whose ministry ran from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE—Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah, and Job—Thinking about the Prophets examines their often-shocking teachings in light of their times, their influence on later Western and Jewish thinkers, and their enduring lessons for all of us. As a noted scholar of Jewish philosophy, Kenneth Seeskin teases out philosophical, ethical, and theological questions in the writings, such as the nature of moral

• Author : Lawrence J. Epstein
• Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
• Release Date : 2013-08-22
• ISBN : 9780765709707

The Basic Beliefs of Judaism gives an updated overview of the belief system on which the Jewish faith is based. Author Lawrence Epstein takes a contemporary point of view, looking at how the basic beliefs of Judaism fit into the lives of modern Jews.

• Author : Neal Scheindlin
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release Date : 2021
• ISBN : 9780827613232

The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook guides teachers and students of all ages and backgrounds in mining classical and modern Jewish texts to inform decision making on hard choices.

• Author : Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
• Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
• Release Date : 1991
• ISBN : 0823213102

Mordecai M. Kaplan began his life's journey with the confines of a small Lithuanian town on the outskirts of Vilna. He was born on a Friday evening in June of 1881. Kaplan's submergence in a total Jewish atmosphere is illustrated by the fact that he knew his day of birth only by the Jewish calendar until he went to the New York Public Library as a young man to look up the corresponding date. Kaplan's family was a traditional one in

• Author : Wayne Allen
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release Date : 2021-05
• ISBN : 9780827618664

The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to modernity.

• Author : Jacob Neusner
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1986
• ISBN : UOM:39015019200941

• Author : Stephen J. Einstein,Lydia Kukoff,Lisa A. Edwards,Marjorie Slome,Hara Person
• Publisher : Urj Press
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 080740649X

Since 1983, this book has been the standard teaching tool for beginning "Introduction to Judaism" classes in Reform synagogues and institutions throughout North America. This revised edition has been updated and expanded to include new material in each chapter. New articles, essays, liturgical writings, and text sources reflect recent developments in the political situation in Israel, the creation of alternative liturgies and life-cycle celebrations, and the Reform Movement's growing emphasis on sacred texts and spirituality.