Author: Lori S. Kline
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991632749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
How can our sacred institutions preserve tradition while retaining the flexibility to accommodate modern life? And how do you fold that theme into a lively kids' book?
Almost a Minyan
Author: Lori S. Kline
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991632749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
How can our sacred institutions preserve tradition while retaining the flexibility to accommodate modern life? And how do you fold that theme into a lively kids' book?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991632749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
How can our sacred institutions preserve tradition while retaining the flexibility to accommodate modern life? And how do you fold that theme into a lively kids' book?
The Prison Minyan
Author: Jonathan Stone
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace. &‘Erudite, trenchant and touching'- Michael Arditti 'Delectable... glorious... this most cherishably Jewish of books.' - Jewish Chronicle The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by a rabbi who's a fellow convict. As the only prison in the federal system with a kosher deli, Otisville is the penitentiary of choice for white-collar Jewish offenders, many of whom secretly like the place. They've learned to game the system, so when the regime is toughened to punish a newly arrived celebrity convict who has upset the 45th president, they find devious ways to fight back. Shadowy forces up the ante by trying to 'Epstein' - ie assassinate - the newcomer, and visiting poetry professor Deborah Liston ends up in dire peril when she sees too much. She has helped the minyan look into their souls. Will they now step up to save her? Jonathan Stone brings the sensibility of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to the post-truth era in a sharply comic novel that is also wise, profound, and deeply moral.
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace. &‘Erudite, trenchant and touching'- Michael Arditti 'Delectable... glorious... this most cherishably Jewish of books.' - Jewish Chronicle The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by a rabbi who's a fellow convict. As the only prison in the federal system with a kosher deli, Otisville is the penitentiary of choice for white-collar Jewish offenders, many of whom secretly like the place. They've learned to game the system, so when the regime is toughened to punish a newly arrived celebrity convict who has upset the 45th president, they find devious ways to fight back. Shadowy forces up the ante by trying to 'Epstein' - ie assassinate - the newcomer, and visiting poetry professor Deborah Liston ends up in dire peril when she sees too much. She has helped the minyan look into their souls. Will they now step up to save her? Jonathan Stone brings the sensibility of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to the post-truth era in a sharply comic novel that is also wise, profound, and deeply moral.
Almost Englishmen
Author: Ruth Fredman Cernea
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739116470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Before the Second World War, two golden 'promised lands' beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which 'the sun never set, ' and the promised land of their religious tradition, Jerusalem. Almost Englishmen studies the less well-known of these destinations. The book combines history and cultural studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews. England's influence was pervasive and persuasive: like other minorities in the complex society that was British India, the Baghdadis gradually refashioned their ideology and aspirations on the British model. The Jewish experience in the lush land of Burma, with its lifestyles, its educational system, and its internal tensions, is emblematic of the experience of the extended Baghdadi community, whether in Bombay, Calcutta, Shanghai, Singapore, or other ports and towns throughout Southeast Asia. It also suggests the experience of the Anglo-Indian and similar 'European' populations that shared their streets as well as the classrooms of the missionary societies' schools. This contented life amidst golden pagodas ended abruptly with the Japanese invasion of Burma and a horrific trek to safety in India and could not be restored after the war. Employing first-person testimonies and recovered documents, this study illuminates this little known period in imperial and Jewish histories.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739116470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Before the Second World War, two golden 'promised lands' beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which 'the sun never set, ' and the promised land of their religious tradition, Jerusalem. Almost Englishmen studies the less well-known of these destinations. The book combines history and cultural studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews. England's influence was pervasive and persuasive: like other minorities in the complex society that was British India, the Baghdadis gradually refashioned their ideology and aspirations on the British model. The Jewish experience in the lush land of Burma, with its lifestyles, its educational system, and its internal tensions, is emblematic of the experience of the extended Baghdadi community, whether in Bombay, Calcutta, Shanghai, Singapore, or other ports and towns throughout Southeast Asia. It also suggests the experience of the Anglo-Indian and similar 'European' populations that shared their streets as well as the classrooms of the missionary societies' schools. This contented life amidst golden pagodas ended abruptly with the Japanese invasion of Burma and a horrific trek to safety in India and could not be restored after the war. Employing first-person testimonies and recovered documents, this study illuminates this little known period in imperial and Jewish histories.
The Minyanaires
Author: Peter G. Engelman
Publisher: Terumah Pub
ISBN: 9780974427706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Terumah Pub
ISBN: 9780974427706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Greek Vase-painting
Author: Ernst Buschor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vase-painting, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vase-painting, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Patch on the Peak of Ararat
Author: Gary Bower
Publisher: Tyndale Kids
ISBN: 9781496417442
Category : Ararat, Mount (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Faith that God Built series by Gary Bower uses the same whimsical style of storytelling as The House that Jack Built, using rhyme to introduce preschoolers through second graders to favorite Bible stories. Gary has a well-developed talent for creating engaging narratives that also teach biblical truth through rhyme. In Patch on the Peak of Ararat, Noah follows God's plan, resulting in his rescue from destruction.
Publisher: Tyndale Kids
ISBN: 9781496417442
Category : Ararat, Mount (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Faith that God Built series by Gary Bower uses the same whimsical style of storytelling as The House that Jack Built, using rhyme to introduce preschoolers through second graders to favorite Bible stories. Gary has a well-developed talent for creating engaging narratives that also teach biblical truth through rhyme. In Patch on the Peak of Ararat, Noah follows God's plan, resulting in his rescue from destruction.
The New Jewish Leaders
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611681839
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611681839
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
Jewish Topographies
Author: Julia Brauch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131711101X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and lived Jewish spaces and sheds light on their diversity, inter-connectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. The reader encounters sites such as the gardens cultivated in the Ghettos during World War II, the Israeli development town of Netivot, Thornhill, an Orthodox suburb of Toronto, or new virtual sites of Jewish (Second) Life on the Internet, and learns about the Jewish landkentenish movement in Interwar Poland, the Jewish connection to the sea and the culinary landscapes of Russian Jews in New York. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this anthology introduces new methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131711101X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and lived Jewish spaces and sheds light on their diversity, inter-connectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. The reader encounters sites such as the gardens cultivated in the Ghettos during World War II, the Israeli development town of Netivot, Thornhill, an Orthodox suburb of Toronto, or new virtual sites of Jewish (Second) Life on the Internet, and learns about the Jewish landkentenish movement in Interwar Poland, the Jewish connection to the sea and the culinary landscapes of Russian Jews in New York. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this anthology introduces new methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.
Empowered Judaism
Author: Elie Kaunfer
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN: 1580234127
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Why have thousands of young Jews, otherwise unengaged with formal Jewish life, started more than sixty innovative prayer communities across the United States? What crucial insights can these grassroots communities provide for all of us?
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN: 1580234127
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Why have thousands of young Jews, otherwise unengaged with formal Jewish life, started more than sixty innovative prayer communities across the United States? What crucial insights can these grassroots communities provide for all of us?
Peninei Halakha
Author: Eliezer Melamed
Publisher: Maggid
ISBN: 9781592644100
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peninei Halakha is a comprehensive series of books on Jewish law applied to today¿s ever-changing world. In this series, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed¿s well-organized, clear, and concise writing style brings the halakha, from principle to practical detail, to readers of all backgrounds. With over 400,000 copies in circulation, Peninei Halakha stands as one of the most popular and useful halakha series in Israel today.
Publisher: Maggid
ISBN: 9781592644100
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peninei Halakha is a comprehensive series of books on Jewish law applied to today¿s ever-changing world. In this series, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed¿s well-organized, clear, and concise writing style brings the halakha, from principle to practical detail, to readers of all backgrounds. With over 400,000 copies in circulation, Peninei Halakha stands as one of the most popular and useful halakha series in Israel today.