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Whitney M. Young, Jr., the charismatic executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the worlds of race and power. The "inside man" of the black revolution, he served as interpreter between black America and the businessmen, foundation executives, and public officials who constituted the white power structure. In this stimulating biography, Nancy J. Weiss shows how Young accomplished what Jesse Jackson called the toughest job in the black movement: selling civil rights to the nation's most powerful whites. With race at center stage in American national...

Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age.

Weiss argues that this particular Jewish relationship to the divine is rooted in the most canonical of rabbinic texts even as he...

The title of this thematic commentary on the Torah, Torat Ahavah: Loving Torah, has a twofold message. First, "loving" can be read as a verb, reflecting my passion for Torah. In the words of the Psalmist, “How I love Your Torah, I meditate on it all day long” (Psalms 119:97). Second, “loving” can be seen as an adjective, reflecting what, for me, is the foundation of Torah.

In »Tom und der Tod« begleiten wir den jungen Tom, der um seinen geliebten Großvater trauert. Auf der Suche nach Trost begegnet er an ihrem gemeinsamen Lieblingsplatz dem Tod höchstpersönlich. Doch statt Angst und Schrecken verbreitet dieser eine beruhigende Weisheit, die Tom hilft, mit seinem Verlust umzugehen.

Die einfühlsam erzählte Geschichte nimmt Kinder behutsam an die Hand, um ihnen die schwierigen Themen Verlust, Abschied und Trauer näherzubringen. Dabei gelingt es der Autorin, mit warmherzigen Worten und wunderschönen Bildern zu zeigen, dass der Tod zum Leben...