Author: Yonason Rosenblum
Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Hasidim
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Hanoch Teller
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9781881939153
Category : Orthodox Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Biographies of Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahanemann and Sarah Schneirer.

Author: A. L. Scheinbaum
Publisher: Living Memorial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Discover how Orthodox Judaism rose from near oblivion to a significant influence in America! The story of Orthodox growth in twentieth century America is one of struggle and determination, setbacks and near-miraculous victories. To

Author: Hanoch Teller
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9781881939030
Category : Jewish educators
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253111609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society -- in this case, a team -- "chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices? Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America. He considers the defensive strategies American Jewish leaders have employed in response to sports' challenges to identity, such as using temple and synagogue centers, complete with gymnasiums and swimming pools, to attract the athletically inclined to Jewish life. Within the suburban frontiers of post--World War II America, sports-minded modern Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform rabbis competed against one another for the allegiances of Jewish athletes and all other Americanized Jews. In the present day, tensions among Jewish movements are still played out in the sports arena. Today, in a mostly accepting American society, it is easy for sports-minded Jews to assimilate completely, losing all regard for Jewish ties. At the same time, a very tolerant America has enabled Jews to succeed in the sports world, while keeping faith with Jewish traditions. Gurock foregrounds his engaging book against his own experiences as a basketball player, coach, and marathon runner. By using the metaphor of sports, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports underscores the basic religious dilemmas of our day.

Author: Pearl Benisch
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9781583305768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: C. R. Wagschal
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9781583309872
Category : Emotions
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Shalom Meir Valach
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9781583305683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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This book traces the Polish Chassidic Dynasties of Lublin, Lelov, Nikolsburg, and Boston. Based on the Hebrew, Shalsheles Boston, this fascinating and uplifting book includes the biographies of the major Polish Chassidic figures and their teachings. With a foreward by the Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz.

Author: Marc Raphael
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313367728
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work focuses on Orthodox Judaism. Along with a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders, a bibliography of their writings and sources for further study is included as well as an essay on Orthodox rabbinic organizations and a survey of American Orthodox periodicals. Of interest to scholars, students, and lay persons alike, this volume will inform readers about the earliest communities of Jews who settled in America as they developed the institutions of Orthodox Jewish life and set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law. These early American Jews followed a Spanish-Dutch version of Sephardic customs and rites. Their synagogues used traditional prayer books, promoted the celebration of Jewish holidays, established mikvahs, acquired Passover provisions, and arranged for cemetery land and burial services. While many of these Sephardic immigrants did not maintain halakha in their daily regimen as did their European counterparts, they set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law, thus honoring Jewish tradition. Further immigration of thousands of Jews from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the 19th century brought a world of traditional piety and extensive Jewish learning to America, exemplified by Rabbi Abraham Rice, who served in Baltimore, and Yissachar Dov (Bernard) Illowy, who served communities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Such men marked the beginning of a learned and scholarly rabbinate in America. This volume provides valuable biographical insights regarding some of the most notable religious leaders in American Orthodoxy.