Among Righteous Men

Author : Matthew Shaer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118095201

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Inside the hidden world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit but divided community. On a cold night in December, the members of a Hasidic anti-crime patrol called the Shomrim are summoned to a yeshiva dormitory in Crown Heights. There to break up a brawl, the Shomrim instead find themselves embroiled in a religious schism which has split the community and turned roommate against roommate, neighbor against neighbor. At the center of the storm is Aron Hershkop, the owner of an auto-repair business and the leader of the Shomrim. Hershkop watches as the NYPD builds a criminal case against his brothers and friends, apparently with the help of several local residents, who have taken the rare step of forgoing a ruling from the local rabbinical council. Soon, both sides are squaring off in a Brooklyn criminal court, with the Shomrim facing gang assault charges and decades in prison. What conflict could run so deep it left both sides airing their dirty laundry so publicly? This compelling story takes you to the deepest corners of a normally hidden world. Features fast-paced writing and a true story with surprising twists, personal conflicts, and a tense trial Offers a glimpse in a normally sheltered and private community many see, but few know much about. Centers on an unusual man facing a universal conflict: do you do what’s simple and expedient, or do you do follow our heart, your tradition, and your faith?

Author : Sam Bourne
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061859656

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The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. . . . A teenage computer prodigy is mortally strangled in Mumbai. A far-right extremist is killed in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. A wealthy businessman is murdered in Thailand. A pimp in Brooklyn is found stabbed to death and mysteriously covered by a brown shroud. What connects the victims is an ancient prophecy that leads to the end of the world, and it's up to Will Monroe, a fledgling reporter at the New York Times, to stop it. But Monroe's investigation quickly makes him some shadowy enemies, who kidnap his wife and hold her hostage in Crown Heights. Desperate to find the link between the killings and to save his wife, he enlists his college sweetheart, TC, an eccentric artist and Kabbalah expert. As the death toll rises, they follow a trail of clues that seems to lead inexorably to a set of ancient texts containing a prophecy that promises to save the world—or to destroy it. What will happen when the one secret that has kept the world safe for thousands of years is revealed to all? In The Righteous Men, a blistering thriller filled with mystery, romance, and suspense, Sam Bourne takes readers deep into the hidden worlds of fundamentalist religion, mysticism, and biblical prophecies. This is a visionary tale that is as frightening as it is entertaining. Readers won't stop turning the pages until the very end.

Author : Jonathan Haidt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307455772

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The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

Author : Robert Satloff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586485344

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Among the Righteous by Robert Satloff Pdf

Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust -- but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff sets off on a quest to find the Arab hero whose story will change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history. The story of the Holocaust's long reach into the Arab world is difficult to uncover, covered up by desert sands and desert politics. We follow Satloff over four years, through eleven countries, from the barren wasteland of the Sahara, where thousands of Jews were imprisoned in labor camps; through the archways of the Mosque in Paris, which may once have hidden 1700 Jews; to the living rooms of octogenarians in London, Paris and Tunis. The story is very cinematic; the characters are rich and handsome, brave and cowardly; there are heroes and villains. The most surprising story of all is why, more than sixty years after the end of the war, so few people -- Arab and Jew -- want this story told.

Author : Obadiah HUGHES (the Younger.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1743
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020760520

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The Righteous Man's Hope in Death Consider'd ... in a Sermon [on Prov. Xiv. 32] Preached on Occasion of the Death of the Late Reverend Mr. S. Say, Etc by Obadiah HUGHES (the Younger.) Pdf

Author : Robert L. Millet
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1590389344

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Men of Valor by Robert L. Millet Pdf

Author : Paul CARDALE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1761
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020751090

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The Distinctive Character and Honour of the Righteous Man Considered in Two Discourses Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Francis Blackmore by Paul CARDALE Pdf

Author : Sam Mason
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462413102

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Two Righteous Men Two Wicked Cities by Sam Mason Pdf

Two Righteous Men - Two Wicked Cities explores in depth the fascinating Bible account of Abraham and Lot, and Sodom and Gomorrah. This true story is not only an intriguing one, but a tale replete with lessons both timely and pertinent in today's America. Approach this volume with an open heart and mind, and you'll gain invaluable insights desperately needed in our lives, our families, our churches, and our nation. And perhaps like Queen Esther of old, you'll find that God has actually brought you to this time and place so that you can help make a real difference in your world! I don't believe I've ever come across a single book that was as Biblically sound and culturally relevant as "Two Righteous Men -- Two Wicked Cities." This book is clearly the product of decades of Bible Study as well as depth of insight into contemporary life in America. Sam demonstrates clearly how the lives of Abraham and Lot were recorded for us as examples of the workings of God in the lives of individuals, communities and a nation. He reminds us of our Godly heritage and points clearly to the way home for America. I highly recommend this book to every student of the Bible as well as every American concerned about the future of our nation. --Reverend Bill Banuchi Sr. Executive Director New York Faith & Freedom Coalition President, Marriage & Family Savers Institute "Two Righteous Men --Two Wicked Cities" is relevant to our day and worthy of our attention and discussion. I highly recommend it. It is my prayer for the Spirit of God to use this book to help open our eyes to our desperate need for spiritual revival and to give us wisdom to know how to restore righteousness to our nation. --Scott Darling President OneMillionPraying.org, Montana State Coordinator for National Day of Prayer

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : Arthur Browne
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807043585

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One Righteous Man by Arthur Browne Pdf

Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book Award Winner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer. When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he had to fear his racist colleagues as much as criminals. He had to be three times better than his white peers, and many times more resilient. His life was threatened. He was displayed like a circus animal. Yet, fearlessly claiming his rights, he prevailed in a four-decade odyssey that is both the story of one man’s courageous dedication to racial progress and a harbinger of the divisions between police and the people they serve that plague twenty-first-century America. By dint of brains, brawn, and an outsized personality, Battle rode the forward wave of African American history in New York. He circulated among renowned turn-of-the-century entertainers and writers. He weathered threatening hostility as a founding citizen of black Harlem. He served as “godfather” to the regiment of black soldiers that won glory in World War I as the “Hellfighters of Harlem.” He befriended sports stars like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Sugar Ray Robinson, and he bonded with legendary tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. Along the way, he mentored an equally smart, equally tough young man in a still more brutal fight to integrate the New York Fire Department. At the close of his career, Battle looked back proudly on the against-all-odd journey taken by a man who came of age as the son of former slaves in the South. He had navigated the corruption of Tammany Hall, the treachery of gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, the anything-goes era of Prohibition, the devastation of the Depression, and the race riots that erupted in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. By then he was a trusted aide to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and a friend to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Realizing that his story was the story of race in New York across the first half of the century, Battle commissioned a biography to be written by none other than Langston Hughes, the preeminent voice of the Harlem Renaissance. But their eighty-thousand-word collaboration failed to find a publisher, and has remained unpublished since. Using Hughes’s manuscript, which is quoted liberally throughout this book, as well as his own archival research and interviews with survivors, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Arthur Browne has created an important and compelling social history of New York, revealed a fascinating episode in the life of Langston Hughes, and delivered the riveting life and times of a remarkable and unjustly forgotten man, setting Samuel Battle where he belongs in the pantheon of American civil rights pioneers.

Author : Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580235785

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Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin Pdf

Who are the ancient role models for the sacred relationship between Jews and non-Jews today? Now more than ever, gentiles are an integral part of the Jewish community. But they are not new to the Jewish story. In fact, righteous gentiles go back to Abraham. The story of the Jewish people can’t be told without them. Noted author and educator Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin provides an informative and inspiring look at the sympathetic non-Israelite characters of the Hebrew Bible and the redemptive relationships they had with the Jewish people. Relying on biblical and extra-biblical sources, he introduces each character, drawing lessons from the life of each that will be relevant to you, whatever your faith tradition. They include the ... First gentile to bless a Jew First woman to hear the Divine voice and save a Jewish baby First teacher of morality to the Jews First gentile mother of Jewish children Gentile midwives who invented civil disobedience Mother of Moses and nurturer of the Jewish people Father-in-law and teacher of Moses First “gentile Zionist” Gentile warrior who fought for the Israelites Gentile contractor for Solomon’s Temple Gentiles who acknowledged God and repented Creator of the Second Jewish Commonwealth

Author : Marty Brounstein
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480945418

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Two Among the Righteous Few by Marty Brounstein Pdf

Two Among the Righteous FewBy: Marty Brounstein Can hope be found amidst tragedy? Nestled in the hills on the western side of Jerusalem is a museum called Yad Vashem. There, people from around the world visit daily to learn about the tragic period of history from 1933 to 1945 known as the Holocaust. The museum serves as an education, research, and historical center in remembrance of the six million Jews across Europe who were murdered at the hands of the Nazi Party machine led by Adolf Hitler. A special section of Yad Vashem is dedicated to those who carried out acts of courage to save the lives of Jews during the Holocaust. Remembered there is a couple from Dieden of the Netherlands, Frans and Mien Wijnakker. Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust is the remarkable tale of how Frans and his wife, Mien, saved the lives of at least two dozen Jews in southern Holland during World War II. They were Catholics who led a simple life in a small town, but they took risks and displayed bravery to help others in dire need, instilling hope during one of the most horrific points of history.

Author : Danny Rittman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475963963

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Ten Righteous People by Danny Rittman Pdf

The dark angel is disgusted with mankind: They have butchered each other. They have neglected and abused children and the elderly. They have murdered each other en masse. Theyve even created a system for the organized elimination of their own race. The dark angel believes its time for the world to be destroyed. But the light angel disagrees. He believes there is still good in the world, and he resolves to find it. The light angel must locate ten righteous peoplethose who harbored purely evil souls, who conducted their lives committing heinous acts, but who have changed their ways of thinking, changed their morals, and changed their perspectivestheir hearts and souls transformed into good. Ten Righteous People tells ten personal stories of good and evil. Among a drug cartel leader, a corrupt treasury accountant, mercenaries, and a Nazi soldier, there is a common battle. They must each confront the truth of their actions and make a critical, life-changing decision. The fate of the world depends on their repentance.

Author : William Moore (rector of Whalley, Lancashire.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1657
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021211666

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The Grand Inquiry who is the Righteous Man; Or, the Character of a True Beleever in His Approaches Towards Heaven. Whereunto is Added, the Resolution of a Case of Separation Between Man and Wife, Etc by William Moore (rector of Whalley, Lancashire.) Pdf

Author : Archibald Duff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Atonement
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5IIR

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On the History of the Idea of Atonement Among the Hebrews from the Time of Amos (circa 800 B.C.) to the Liberation by Cyrus from the Babylonian Exile(cira 540 B.C.) by Archibald Duff Pdf

"The story of a life must be interesting, but the history of an idea has a manifold interest, because it is the story of many lives. It is the history of life as it is ever springing into being, ever handed on from one individual to another, gathering the vigour of many ages. ..."--