Contemporary Debates in American Reform Judaism: Conflicting Visions
ISBN: 9780415926294 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses the recent issues and arguments surrounding the Reform movement. The contributors to this volume examine several issues including: the role of Reform in relation to Conservative and Orthodox movements; the role of women and feminism in Reform, particularly women rabbis; the upcoming vote on the new platform scheduled for this year; and interpretations of the latest census data for Reform Jews.
Discusses the recent issues and arguments surrounding the Reform movement. The contributors to this volume examine several issues including: the role ...
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191,87 zł |
Liberal Judaism
ISBN: 9780807402641 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book probes the varieties of Jewish thought and ritual practice from the perspective of liberal Judaism.
This book probes the varieties of Jewish thought and ritual practice from the perspective of liberal Judaism.
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86,51 zł |
Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
ISBN: 9780814325551 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reform Judaism is today one of the three major branches of the Jewish faith. This is a history of the Reform movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernisation in late 18th-century Jewish thought and practice to American renewal in the 1970s.
Reform Judaism is today one of the three major branches of the Jewish faith. This is a history of the Reform movement, tracing its changing configurat...
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A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology
ISBN: 9780823226818 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview. Across the monotheistic traditions there has emerged a "liberal" conception of God compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism. For many, this liberal "new" God is the only credible God. But is it a useful God? Does belief in so malleable a deity come from, or lead to, different political, moral, psychological, or aesthetic phenomena from atheism? A Plausible God evaluates the new God by analyzing the theology of three recent Jewish...
At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific w...
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409,77 zł |
A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology
ISBN: 9780823226825 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview. Across the monotheistic traditions there has emerged a "liberal" conception of God compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism. For many, this liberal "new" God is the only credible God. But is it a useful God? Does belief in so malleable a deity come from, or lead to, different political, moral, psychological, or aesthetic phenomena from atheism? A Plausible God evaluates the new God by analyzing the theology of three recent Jewish...
At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific w...
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What's Up with the Hard Core Jewish People? an Irreverent Yet Informative Approach to Judaism and Religious Devotion from a Reform Jewish Mother's Per
ISBN: 9781591139065 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author pens a true story of a casually Jewish family's struggle to cope with divisiveness caused when one son becomes an Orthodox Jew. It is also an excellent reference source for people who want an easy and humorous way to learn about Judaism.
The author pens a true story of a casually Jewish family's struggle to cope with divisiveness caused when one son becomes an Orthodox Jew. It is also ...
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Survival Through Integration (Paperback): American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust
ISBN: 9789004141094 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration...
The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted...
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Jewish Renewal: A Journey: The Movement's History, Ideology, and Future
ISBN: 9780595411818 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Jewish Renewal: A Journey: The Movement's History, Ideology, and Future
ISBN: 9780595678754 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1980, Sholom Groesberg changed his life's course. He resigned as dean of engineering at Widener University in order to pursue a career in the rabbinate. Accepted at the Academy for Jewish Religion, he was ordained in 1984. Ten years later Rabbi Groesberg encountered the Jewish Renewal movement Its approach to creating an authentic identity within the context of living as a Jew resonated strongly within him. He became an ardent adherent of the movement.
"Jewish Renewed: A Journey" is a combination academic study and personal memoir written for the educated lay reader. It traces the... In 1980, Sholom Groesberg changed his life's course. He resigned as dean of engineering at Widener University in order to pursue a career in the rabbi...
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The Limits of Faith: The Failure of Faith-based Religions and the Solution to the Meaning of Life
ISBN: 9781884564635 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is faith belief in something without proof? And if so is there never to be any proof or discovery? If so what is the need of intellect? If faith is trust in something that is real is that reality historical, literal or metaphorical or philosophical? If knowledge is an essential element in faith why should there by so much emphasis on believing and not on understanding in the modern practice of religion? This volume is a compilation of essays related to the nature of religious faith in the context of its inception in human history as well as its meaning for religious practice and relations...
Is faith belief in something without proof? And if so is there never to be any proof or discovery? If so what is the need of intellect? If faith is tr...
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Ccar Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2009
ISBN: 9780881231250 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Special symposium on Synagogue Transformation.
Special symposium on Synagogue Transformation.
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Transforming Relations: Essays on Jews and Christians Throughout History in Honor of Michael A. Signer
ISBN: 9780268030902 / Angielski / Twarda / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honors the influential work of Michael A. Signer (1945-2009). Reflecting the breadth of Signer's research and pedagogical interests, the essays treat various aspects of the Jewish-Christian relationship through the centuries, from the divine law in antiquity to philosemitism in contemporary Christianity, from scriptural interpretation in the twelfth century to Christian Hebraism in the fifteenth, and from the presentation of... Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the moder... |
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Ccar Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2011 - Becoming a Rabbi After Ordination
ISBN: 9780881231717 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Special Symposium Issue on Finding Our Path: Becoming a Rabbi After Ordination. Explores what it means to truly become a rabbi. with essays on "Fostering a Relationship between Rabbi and God," "Learning in Order to Teach," "Education of the Adventure Rabbi," "My Sacred Journey to Chaplaincy," "Visions of an Alternative Rabbinic Journey," "The Rabbi as Values-Based Corporate Leader," and more. Also includes poetry, book reviews, and responses to the Summer 2010 Symposium Issue.
Special Symposium Issue on Finding Our Path: Becoming a Rabbi After Ordination. Explores what it means to truly become a rabbi. with essays on "Foster...
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109,28 zł |
A Life of Meaning: Embracing Reform Judaism's Sacred Path
ISBN: 9780881233131 / Angielski / Miękka / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ccar Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2010, Symposium Issue on Politics and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780881231571 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Special issue on Politics and Spirituality, with essays on "Ritual Versus Justice," "Dissent from the Dissenters," "Same-Gender Marriages from the Intersection of Faith and Politics," "The Ballot, the Bimah, and the Tax Code," "Liberal Dilemma: The Prophetic Mandate versus Religion-Sate Seperation in Reform Political Discourse," as well as essays on Rabbinic Advocacy and Jewish Community Organizing. Also includes poetry and book reviews.
Special issue on Politics and Spirituality, with essays on "Ritual Versus Justice," "Dissent from the Dissenters," "Same-Gender Marriages from the Int...
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109,28 zł |
Ccar Journal, the Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2012: Judaism and Science
ISBN: 9780881231809 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Special Symposium issue on Judaism and Science that includes essays on "Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science," "Jewish Philosophy, Science, and the Humanities," "Revisiting Creation, Natural Events and Their Emergent Patterns," "Science and Judaism: Methodological Considerations A Jewish View of the Evolution of Religion," poetry, book reviews, and responses to the Spring 2011 and Summer 2011 issues.
Special Symposium issue on Judaism and Science that includes essays on "Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science," "Jewish Philoso...
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115,35 zł |
Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us: Faith Versus Political Activism
ISBN: 9781475935837 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,21 zł |
Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us: Faith Versus Political Activism
ISBN: 9781475935844 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,85 zł |
The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
ISBN: 9780253010759 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a radical, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God. Although he valued the Jewish community and was a committed Zionist, his primary concern was the spiritual fulfillment of the individual. Drawing on Kaplan's 27-volume diary, Mel Scult describes the development of Kaplan's radical theology in dialogue with the thinkers and writers who mattered... Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical esta... |
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The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections
ISBN: 9780827609341 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the book that American Jews and particularly American Reform Jews have been waiting for: a clear and informed call for further reform in the Reform movement. In light of profound demographic, social, and technological developments, it has become increasingly clear that the Reform movement will need to make major changes to meet the needs of a quickly evolving American Jewish population. Younger Americans in particular differ from previous generations in how they relate to organized religion, often preferring to network through virtual groups or gather in informal... This is the book that American Jews and particularly American Reform Jews have been waiting for: a clear and informed call for further reform in th... |
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160,80 zł |