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Author | : Marc Angel |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780881258905 |
Download Choosing to be Jewish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book challenges readers to consider the issues relating to halakhic conversion, and to rethink historic attitudes and policies concerning conversion. Whereas for many centuries conversion to Judaism was relatively rare, in modern times it is a significant phenomenon. This book will enable readers to better understand the phenomenon and to appreciate the need for halakhic conversions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Levy Daniella |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789659254002 |
Download Letters to Josep Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.
Author | : Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1796018945 |
Download Becoming Jewish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Becoming Jewish is an engaging, accessible, all-inclusive step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism that introduces readers to finding life's meaning through the evolving religious civilization that is Judaism. Written with humor and heart, readers learn the ins and outs of becoming Jewish and discover the wonder that is the language, literature, history, rituals, food, music, and culture of contemporary Jewish life.
Author | : Brenda Forster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michal Kravel-Tovi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231544812 |
Download When the State Winks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Religious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have multilayered motives. Over the last two decades, mass non-Jewish immigration to Israel, especially from the former Soviet Union, has sparked heated debates over the Jewish state’s conversion policy and intensified suspicion of converts’ sincerity. When the State Winks carefully traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion to highlight the collaborative labor that goes into the making of the Israeli state and its Jewish citizens. In a rich ethnographic narrative based on fieldwork in conversion schools, rabbinic courts, and ritual bathhouses, Michal Kravel-Tovi follows conversion candidates—mostly secular young women from a former Soviet background—and state conversion agents, mostly religious Zionists caught between the contradictory demands of their nationalist and religious commitments. She complicates the popular perception that conversion is a “wink-wink” relationship in which both sides agree to treat the converts’ pretenses of observance as real. Instead, she demonstrates how their interdependent performances blur any clear boundary between sincere and empty conversions. Alongside detailed ethnography, When the State Winks develops new ways to think about the complex connection between religious conversion and the nation-state. Kravel-Tovi emphasizes how state power and morality is managed through “winking”—the subtle exchanges and performances that animate everyday institutional encounters between state and citizen. In a country marked by tension between official religiosity and a predominantly secular Jewish population, winking permits the state to save its Jewish face.
Author | : Anita Diamant |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1998-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0805210954 |
Download Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The definitive guide to the conversion process—for a new generation of Jews-by-choice. However you choose to fashion your personal journey to Judaism, Anita Diamant is the perfect guide. In this comprehensive, wide-ranging book you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, and a Hebrew name; how to discuss your decision with your birth family; what happens at the mikveh (ritual bath) and at the hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); how to find your footing in a new spiritual family and create a new Jewish identity; and how you and your children can maintain bonds to your family of origin. Also included are suggestions for readings, prayers, and poems that can personalize conversion rituals; a glossary of terms; and a short history of conversion in Judaism. This revised edition contains a completely updated chapter on how the mikveh is used in the conversion process and an updated list of online resources and books for further reading. Whether you are just beginning to consider converting or have already started down the path to Judaism, here is everything you will need to make the process joyous, sacred, and meaningful.
Author | : Eve Harris |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802192661 |
Download The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A “stunning” portrait of life and love inside an insular Jewish community that “reads like an Orthodox Pride and Prejudice . . . Rewardingly delightful” (Bust). London, 2008. Nineteen-year-old Chani Kaufman is betrothed to Baruch Levy, a young man she’s seen only four times before their wedding day. All the cups of cold coffee and small talk with suitors have led up to this moment. But the happiness Chani and Baruch feel is outweighed by their anxiety about the realities of married life; about whether they will be able to have fewer children than Chani’s mother, who has eight daughters; and about the frightening, unspeakable secrets of the wedding night. Through the story of Chani and Baruch’s unusual courtship, we meet a very different couple: Rabbi Chaim Zilberman and his wife, Rebbetzin Rivka Zilberman. As Chani and Baruch prepare to share a lifetime, Chaim and Rivka struggle to keep their marriage alive—and all four, together with the rest of the community, face difficult decisions about the place of faith and family in the contemporary world. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman is a “deeply melodic and exciting” story that “will resonate with readers from all backgrounds” and “linger after the last page” (Publishers Weekly).
Author | : Eugene B. Borowitz |
Publisher | : Behrman House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780874415810 |
Download Choices in Modern Jewish Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.
Author | : Judith Deutsch Kornblatt |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299194833 |
Download Doubly Chosen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia—the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity, first in the 1960s and later in the 1980s. These time periods correspond to the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt contends that the choice of baptism into the Church was an act of moral courage in the face of Soviet persecution, motivated by solidarity with the values espoused by Russian Christian dissidents and intellectuals. Oddly, as Kornblatt shows, these converts to Russian Orthodoxy began to experience their Jewishness in a new and positive way. Working primarily from oral interviews conducted in Russia, Israel, and the United States, Kornblatt underscores the conditions of Soviet life that spurred these conversions: the virtual elimination of Judaism as a viable, widely practiced religion; the transformation of Jews from a religious community to an ethnic one; a longing for spiritual values; the role of the Russian Orthodox Church as a symbol of Russian national culture; and the forging of a new Jewish identity within the context of the Soviet dissident movement.
Author | : Walter Rothschild |
Publisher | : Jvab |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910752180 |
Download The Honey and the Sting Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How to become Jewish and how to practise Judaism every day, written from a European Progressive Jewish perspective. Written with love to Judaism and British Humour."