Why I Am A Jew

Author : Edmond Fleg
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1376191334

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Author : Ruth Pearl,Judea Pearl
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580234894

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I Am Jewish by Ruth Pearl,Judea Pearl Pdf

Being Jewish. What does it mean—today—and for the future? Listen in as Jews of all backgrounds reflect, argue, and imagine. When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered in Pakistan, many Jews were particularly touched by his last words affirming his Jewish identity. Many were moved to reflect on or analyze their feelings toward their lives as Jews. The saying "two Jews, three opinions" well reflects the Jewish community's broad range of views on any topic. I Am Jewish captures this richness of interpretation and inspires Jewish people of all backgrounds to reflect upon and take pride in their identity. Contributions, ranging from major essays to a paragraph or a sentence, come from adults as well as young people in the form of personal feelings, statements of theology, life stories, and historical reflections. Despite the diversity, common denominators shine through clearly and distinctly. Contributors include: Ehud Barak • Sylvia Boorstein • Edgar M. Bronfman • Alan Colmes • Alan Dershowitz • Kirk Douglas • Richard Dreyfuss • Kitty Dukakis • Dianne Feinstein • Tovah Feldshuh • Debbie Friedman • Milton Friedman • Thomas L. Friedman • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Nadine Gordimer • David Hartman • Moshe Katsav • Larry King • Francine Klagsbrun • Harold Kushner • Lawrence Kushner • Shia LaBeouf • Norman Lamm • Norman Lear • Julius Lester • Bernard-Henri Lévy • Bernard Lewis • Daniel Libeskind • Joe Lieberman • Deborah E. Lipstadt • Joshua Malina • Michael Medved • Ruth W. Messinger • Amos Oz • Cynthia Ozick • Shimon Peres • Martin Peretz • Dennis Prager • Anne Roiphe • Sandy Eisenberg Sasso • Vidal Sassoon • Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi • Daniel Schorr • Harold M. Schulweis • Lynn Schusterman • Natan Sharansky • Gary Shteyngart • Sarah Silverman • Michael H. Steinhardt • Kerri Strug • Lawrence H. Summers • Mike Wallace • Elie Wiesel • Leon Wieseltier • Sherwin T. Wine • Ruth R. Wisse • Peter Yarrow • A. B. Yehoshua • Eric H. Yoffie

Author : Edmond Fleg
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781473383418

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A delightful book written from a grandfather to his unborn grandchild about life growing up as a Jewish male in an increasingly secular France. Written with warmth and humor this is a real treat of a book.

Author : Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0743267427

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A Letter in the Scroll by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Pdf

For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed his Final Solution. Astoundingly, the Jewish people have survived catastrophe after catastrophe and remained a thriving and vibrant community. The question Rabbi Jonathan Sacks asks is, quite simply: How? How, in the face of such adversity, has Judaism remained and flourished, making a mark on human history out of all proportion to its numbers? Written originally as a wedding gift to his son and daughter-in-law, A Letter in the Scroll is Rabbi Sacks's personal answer to that question, a testimony to the enduring strength of his religion. Tracing the revolutionary series of philosophical and theological ideas that Judaism created -- from covenant to sabbath to formal education -- and showing us how they remain compellingly relevant in our time, Sacks portrays Jewish identity as an honor as well as a duty. The Ba'al Shem Tov, an eighteenth-century rabbi and founder of the Hasidic movement, famously noted that the Jewish people are like a living Torah scroll, and every individual Jew is a letter within it. If a single letter is damaged or missing or incorrectly drawn, a Torah scroll is considered invalid. So too, in Judaism, each individual is considered a crucial part of the people, without whom the entire religion would suffer. Rabbi Sacks uses this metaphor to make a passionate argument in favor of affiliation and practice in our secular times, and invites us to engage in our dynamic and inclusive tradition. Never has a book more eloquently expressed the joys of being a Jew. This is the story of one man's hope for the future -- a future in which the next generation, his children and ours, will happily embrace the beauty of the world's oldest religion.

Author : Theodore Ross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101590164

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Am I a Jew? by Theodore Ross Pdf

What makes someone Jewish? Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the New Testament, sang in the choir, and even took Communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish? Seeking an answer, Ross traveled around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From “Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Ross tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judaism. Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion.

Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781686140

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How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand Pdf

Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.

Author : David J. Wolpe
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466828575

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Why Be Jewish? by David J. Wolpe Pdf

"All beginnings require that you unlock new doors."--Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav In this short and inspiring text, Rabbi David J. Wolpe addresses all who seek to enlarge the spiritual side of their lives. For those considering a return to the faith of their forebears, for those drawn to conversion, Why Be Jewish? is a learned, graceful, and welcoming introduction beckoning readers into the heart of this venerable and enduring religion.

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805243017

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The Great Partnership by Jonathan Sacks Pdf

A renowned author and rabbi discusses the relationship between science and religion and the importance of the coexistence of both in that religion is the search for meaning and science is the search for explanation. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Raheel Farooq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1688979158

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Why I Am a Muslim by Raheel Farooq Pdf

What can be a greater testimony to the honesty behind this book than the almost certainty that Muslims, Christians and Jews are all going to disown it? Probably a read!

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826423498

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The Home We Build Together by Jonathan Sacks Pdf

The Chief Rabbi's thesis on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy. A counterweight to his earlier book, The Dignity of Difference, Sacks makes the case for "integrated diversity" within a framework of shared political values.

Author : Matt Greene
Publisher : Little A
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1542023440

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Jew(ish) by Matt Greene Pdf

What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld. When his son was born to a non-Jewish mother, Matt began to consider the upbringing he'd put behind him--the sense of not belonging, the forbidden foods, the holidays that felt more like punishments. There are more types of Jew than there are bagel fillings, and for every two there are three opinions. But if you're not a black-hatted frummer, if you're allergic to groups, if you observe but don't believe, or you don't observe at all, does that make you less Jewish? In this wide-ranging series of essays, at turns irreverent, insightful, urgent and iconoclastic, Matt considers what might loosely be termed 'the modern Jewish experience', and asks what it means to be anything in a world obsessed with the self and the other.

Author : David de Sola Pool
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Judaism
ISBN : OCLC:234155300

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Why I Am a Jew by David de Sola Pool Pdf

Author : Clive Lawton
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531100197

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I Am a Jew by Clive Lawton Pdf

Explores the religious beliefs and customs of a Jewish family living in England.

Author : Howard W. Polsky
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0761824235

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How I Am a Jew by Howard W. Polsky Pdf

How I Am a Jew documents the life-long journey of author Howard Polsky as he struggles to maintain his cultural Jewish heritage in the context of his American homeland. This experience of one particular individual is the story of many Americans. Most people living in the U.S. were born abroad or have parents or grandparents, who were born abroad and share the effort described in this book to make meaning of their roots on the road to integrate the different parts of their identities.

Author : Edmond Fleg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030020300341

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