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Why Not? by Mark Schiff
epub |eng | 2022-10-16 | Author:Mark Schiff

* * * 33 Mashiach is the Hebrew word for “messiah.” The word messiah in English means “a savior or a hoped-for deliverer.” It is believed that when the messiah ...
( Category: Jewish Life January 12,2023 )
Essential Torah by George Robinson
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:George Robinson [ROBINSON, GEORGE]

HOW I STUDY TORAH Your questions are deceptively simple, and I am not sure what to do with them. I am afraid that any answer I would compose would be ...
( Category: Women & Judaism January 12,2023 )
Journey from the Land of No by Roya Hakakian
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Roya Hakakian [Hakakian, Roya]

On the way back from Grandmother’s home that night, Mother and Father talked about A.J.’s advice. Mother believed Father had to heed it and sell our house. Then their conversation ...
( Category: Women & Judaism January 12,2023 )
The Birth of Conservative Judaism by Michael R. Cohen
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Michael R. Cohen

THE RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY To define just what separated them from everybody else, Schechter’s disciples increasingly turned “to self-scrutiny with more than usual zest” (32). Yet they needed to find a ...
( Category: Conservative January 11,2023 )
Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible by Rom-Shiloni Dalit
epub |eng | 2021-05-13 | Author:Rom-Shiloni, Dalit [Rom-Shiloni, Dalit]

These instructions to the human armies are parallel to the orders given by YHWH earlier in Ezek 9 to the “person clothed in linen” (from the celestial retinue), who is ...
( Category: Theology January 11,2023 )
Historical Dictionary of Zionism by Rafael Medoff & Chaim I. Waxman
epub |eng | | Author:Rafael Medoff & Chaim I. Waxman

– L – LABOR ZIONISM. The first Labor Zionist organization, known as Poalei Zion and based on the principles of Socialist Zionism, appeared in Minsk, Russia, in 1900. Additional Poalei ...
( Category: History of Religion January 9,2023 )
The Kabbalah & Magic of Angels by Migene González-Wippler
epub |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Migene González-Wippler

[contents] Chapter 11 The Heavenly Hierarchy I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as ...
( Category: Judaism January 9,2023 )
The Basic Beliefs of Judaism by Lawrence J. Epstein
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Lawrence J. Epstein [Epstein, Lawrence J.]

Covenant The narrative of God’s covenant with the Jewish people began with God’s choosing Jews to serve as messengers of the holy teachings. The next step was the revelation of ...
( Category: Theology January 9,2023 )
Bar Mitzvah, a History by Michael Hilton
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Michael Hilton [Rabbi Michael Hilton]

In the 1980s the United Synagogue oral test was replaced by a written bar mitzvah test with two levels, basic and advanced; those who passed the more advanced level had ...
( Category: Jewish Life January 9,2023 )
The Story of the Jewish People by Martin Gilbert
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

No. 87 Dearest Auntie Fori, Outside the war zones Jews also made their contribution to the Allied war effort. Twelve military ambulances were presented to the South African army by ...
( Category: History of Religion January 9,2023 )
Remix Judaism by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

It’s All about Communication—Both the How and the What I want to return to the subject of intermarriage, given that this topic is one that many non-Orthodox Jewish parents will ...
( Category: Conservative January 8,2023 )
Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us by Alexander Maller
epub |eng | 2012-08-16 | Author:Alexander Maller [Alexander Maller]

Notes 1. Union for Reform Judaism, “What Is Reform Judaism?” as posted at http://urj.org/about/reform/whatisreform/. 2. See Popper, The Open Society, 2:233. 3. “We know that crucial progress on immigration policy, ...
( Category: Reform January 7,2023 )
Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming by Catherine Shainberg
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Catherine Shainberg [Catherine Shainberg]

SEVEN Practicing Life’s Quickening Exercises “A depth of beginning, a depth of end; a depth of good, a depth of evil; a depth of above, a depth of below; a ...
( Category: Torah January 7,2023 )
Think a Second Time by Dennis Prager
epub |eng | 1995-01-15 | Author:Dennis Prager [Prager, Dennis]

Christian and Jewish Reactions The relative lack of response among Christian and Jewish religious leaders to the Khomeini death threat was also discouraging for those of us who look to ...
( Category: History January 7,2023 )
Modern Conservative Judaism by Elliot N. Dorff
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Elliot N. Dorff [Dorff, Elliot N. ]

Responsum on Tattooing and Body Piercing Sometimes Conservative responsa address contemporary rituals. As one example, given the high percentage of young Jews getting “inked” or piercing their bodies to accommodate ...
( Category: Conservative January 7,2023 )

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