Think Jewish
DOWNLOAD
Download Think Jewish PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Think Jewish book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Think Jewish
DOWNLOAD
Author : Zalman I. Posner
language : en
Publisher: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
Release Date : 1978
Think Jewish written by Zalman I. Posner and has been published by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Religion categories.
Hebrewspeak
DOWNLOAD
Author : Joseph Lowin
language : en
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Release Date : 1995
Hebrewspeak written by Joseph Lowin and has been published by Jason Aronson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book examines the Hebrew language and presents the notion that there are two ways to look at the Jewish National thought process: by speaking the language ans by speaking about the language.
My Second Favorite Country
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sivan Zakai
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
My Second Favorite Country written by Sivan Zakai and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Social Science categories.
Reveals how young American Jewish children come to develop their views about Israel Israel has long occupied a prominent place in the lives and imaginations of American Jews, serving as both a symbolic touchstone and a source of intercommunal conflict. In My Second-Favorite Country, Sivan Zakai offers the first longitudinal study of how American Jewish children come to think and feel about Israel, tracking their evolving conceptions from kindergarten to fifth grade. This work sheds light on the perception of Israel in the minds of Jewish children in the US and provides a rich case study of how children more generally develop ideas and beliefs about self, community, nation, and world. In contrast to popular views of America’s youth as naive or uninterested, this book illuminates both the complexity of their thinking and their desire to be included in conversations about important civic and political matters. Zakai draws from compelling empirical data to prove that children spend considerable effort contemplating the very concepts that adults often assume they are not ready to discuss. Indeed, the book argues that over the course of their elementary school education, children develop and express deep interest in complex issues such as the intricacies of identity and belonging, conflicting ways of framing the past, and the demands of civic responsibility. Ultimately, Zakai argues that in order to take children’s ideas seriously and better prepare them for a world full of disagreement, a substantive shift in educational practices is necessary.
A Touch Of The Sacred
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Release Date : 2009-12
A Touch Of The Sacred written by Eugene B. Borowitz and has been published by Jewish Lights Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with Religion categories.
Powerful, soul-strengthening musings from the leading theologian of liberal Judaism. "Too often, books on religion are written either primarily for the head or for the heart--as if thinking people don't also feel intuitively, and spiritual types never think much at all. Bosh! Here is our special mix for you.... It is our hope that these pieces will serve as unique windows into Judaism--in bite-size, sacred 'touches'." --from the Introduction For the first time, Dr. Eugene Borowitz, the "dean" of liberal Jewish theologians, opens his heart as well as his mind as he talks about the mix of faith and doubt, of knowing and not-knowing--the elements of Jewish belief--in an easily accessible style. In these pages, Borowitz shares with you his rich inner life, which draws from both the rational and mystical Jewish thought that have inspired two generations of rabbis, cantors, and educators, and will now inspire you. With him, you will explore: Seeking the Sacred One Doing Holy Deeds Creating Sacred Community Reading Sacred Texts Thinking about Holiness Learning from Holy Thinkers and much, much more...
Open Wounds
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Patterson
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Open Wounds written by David Patterson and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Social Science categories.
In this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live -- but especially think -- in a way that is distinctly Jewish. For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is to avoid thinking in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were not anti- Semitic because they were racists; they were racists because they were anti-Semitic, and their anti-Semitism was furthered by a Western ontological tradition that made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being. If the Jewish people, in their particularity, are "chosen" to attest to the universal "chosenness" of every human being, then each human being is singled out to assume an absolute responsibility to and for all human beings. And that, Patterson says, is why the anti-Semite hates the Jew: because the very presence of the Jew robs him of his ego and serves as a constant reminder that we are all forever in debt, and that redemption is always yet to be. Thus the Nazis, before they killed Jewish bodies, were compelled to murder Jewish souls through the degradations of the Shoah. But why is the need for a revitalized Jewish thought so urgent today? It is not only because modern Jewish thought, hoping to accommodate itself to rational idealism, is thereby obliged to put itself in league with postmodernists who "preach tolerance for everything except biblically based religion, beginning with Judaism," and who effectively call on Jews, as fellow "citizens of the global village," to disappear. It is also because without the Jewish reality of Jerusalem, there is only the Jewish abstraction of Auschwitz, for in Auschwitz the Jews were murdered not as husbands and wives, parents and children, but as efficiently numbered units. If the Jews, Patterson claims, are not a people set apart by "a Voice that is other than human," then the Holocaust can never be understood as evil rather than simply immoral. With Open Wounds, Patterson aims to make possible a religious response to the Holocaust. Post-Holocaust Jewish thinking, confronting the work of healing the world -- of tikkun haolam -- must recover not just Jewish tradition but also the category of the holy in human beings' thinking about humanity.
With Friends Like You
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matti Golan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
With Friends Like You written by Matti Golan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
At a time of growing tension between Israel and the U.S., journalist matti Golan vents the grievances beneath the surface of cordial relations between Israelis and American Jews.
Jewish People Jewish Thought
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert M. Seltzer
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1980
Jewish People Jewish Thought written by Robert M. Seltzer and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Judaism categories.
This classic survey of the main features of the Jewish historical landscape exposes students to the rich scholarly literature on Jewish history, theology, philosophy, mysticism, and social thought that has been produced in the last century and a half. It shows Judaism as a creative response to ultimate issues of human concern by members of a group that has faced a unique concatenation of political, economic, and geographical circumstances. -- From product description.
Modern Conservative Judaism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018
Modern Conservative Judaism written by Elliot N. Dorff and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Religion categories.
A major Conservative movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century. His candid observations concerning the movement's ongoing tension between constancy and change shed light on the sometimes unified, sometimes diverse, and occasionally contentious reasoning behind the modern movement's most important laws, policies, and documents. Meanwhile, he has assembled, excerpted, and contextualized the most important historical and internal documents in modern Conservative movement history for the first time in one place, enabling readers to consider and compare them all in context. In "Part 1: God" Dorff explores various ways that Conservative Jews think about God and prayer. In "Part 2: Torah" he considers different approaches to Jewish study, law, and practice; changing women's roles; bioethical rulings on issues ranging from contraception to cloning; business ethics; ritual observances from online minyanim to sports on Shabbat; moral issues from capital punishment to protecting the po∨ and nonmarital sex to same-sex marriage. In "Part 3: Israel" he examines Zionism, the People Israel, and rabbinic rulings in Israel.
Thinking In Jewish
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Boyarin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-08-15
Thinking In Jewish written by Jonathan Boyarin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-15 with Religion categories.
How does one "think" in Jewish? What does it mean to speak in English of Yiddish as Jewish, as a certain intermediary generation of immigrants and children of immigrants from Jewish Eastern Europe has done? A fascination with this question prompted Jonathan Boyarin, one of America's most original thinkers in critical theory and Jewish ethnography, to offer the unexpected Jewish perspective on the vexed issue of identity politics presented here. Boyarin's essays explore the ways in which a Jewish—or, more particularly, Yiddish—idiom complicates the question of identity. Ranging from explorations of a Lower East Side synagogue to Fichte's and Derrida's contrasting notions of the relation between the Jews and the idea of Europe, from the Lubavitch Hasidim to accounts of self-making by Judith Butler and Charles Taylor, Thinking in Jewish will be indispensable reading for students of critical theory, cultural studies, and Jewish studies.
Thinking About God
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kari H. Tuling
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-08
Thinking About God written by Kari H. Tuling and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08 with Philosophy categories.
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.