Author: Lori Sales Kline
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991632770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The story of a young Jewish girl nearing the age of thirteen and her acceptance into the minyan.

Author: Lori S. Kline
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991632749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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How can our sacred institutions preserve tradition while retaining the flexibility to accommodate modern life? And how do you fold that theme into a lively kids' book?

Author: Jonathan Stone
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace. &‘Erudite, trenchant and touching'- Michael Arditti 'Delectable... glorious... this most cherishably Jewish of books.' - Jewish Chronicle The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by a rabbi who's a fellow convict. As the only prison in the federal system with a kosher deli, Otisville is the penitentiary of choice for white-collar Jewish offenders, many of whom secretly like the place. They've learned to game the system, so when the regime is toughened to punish a newly arrived celebrity convict who has upset the 45th president, they find devious ways to fight back. Shadowy forces up the ante by trying to 'Epstein' - ie assassinate - the newcomer, and visiting poetry professor Deborah Liston ends up in dire peril when she sees too much. She has helped the minyan look into their souls. Will they now step up to save her? Jonathan Stone brings the sensibility of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to the post-truth era in a sharply comic novel that is also wise, profound, and deeply moral.

Author: Ruth Fredman Cernea
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739116470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Before the Second World War, two golden 'promised lands' beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which 'the sun never set, ' and the promised land of their religious tradition, Jerusalem. Almost Englishmen studies the less well-known of these destinations. The book combines history and cultural studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews. England's influence was pervasive and persuasive: like other minorities in the complex society that was British India, the Baghdadis gradually refashioned their ideology and aspirations on the British model. The Jewish experience in the lush land of Burma, with its lifestyles, its educational system, and its internal tensions, is emblematic of the experience of the extended Baghdadi community, whether in Bombay, Calcutta, Shanghai, Singapore, or other ports and towns throughout Southeast Asia. It also suggests the experience of the Anglo-Indian and similar 'European' populations that shared their streets as well as the classrooms of the missionary societies' schools. This contented life amidst golden pagodas ended abruptly with the Japanese invasion of Burma and a horrific trek to safety in India and could not be restored after the war. Employing first-person testimonies and recovered documents, this study illuminates this little known period in imperial and Jewish histories.

Author: Akiva Freund
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557379342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Jewish humor intake on synagogue issues.

Author: Shulamit E. Kustanowitz
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741433826
Category : Conservative Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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Obsession with a religious imperative leads a man to reason that if he kills the right people, their mourners will solve his problem. Is it too late to stop him?

Author: Patti Moskovitz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595219454
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Spirituality * Judaism * Religion * Ritual and Tradition The Minyan: A Tapestry of Jewish Life took over 10 years to complete. Growing out of a personal tragedy, the result is a beautifully crafted and emotionally elevating collection of stories from Jews around the world and across the Jewish spectrum, recounting their life-changing experiences in a minyan -- the gathering of a quorum needed for Jewish worship. On these pages are woven the threads of both famous and lesser-known individuals whose lives were changed by joining with others in study and prayer at critical times in their lives. Drawing upon Biblical and contemporary sources, the author suggests ways to weave such spiritual moments into every person's religious life.

Author: Mordechai Altshuler
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168272X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath

Author: Samuel C. Heilman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351487272
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He illustrates how people come to the synagogue not only for spiritual purposes but also to find out where and how they fit into life in the neighborhood in which they share.In his new introduction, Heilman discusses what led him to write this book and the process of personal transformation through which he, as an Orthodox Jew, had to go in order to turn a disciplined eye on the world from which he came. Rather than using the stranger-as-native approach of classic anthropology, he had instead to begin as a native who discoverd how to look at a once-taken-for-granted synagogue life like a stranger. In the afterword, arguing for the efficacy of this approach, Heilman offers guidance on how natives can use their special familiarity and still be trained to distance themselves from their own group, making use of the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Synagogue Life offers a fascinating portrait that has something to say to social scientists as well as all those curious about what happens in the main arena of Orthodox Jewish community life.

Author: Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823239004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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This is a narrative ethnography, in journal form, documenting the life of a small Orthodox Jewish congregation on the Lower East Side of New York in the summer of 2008. The text focuses on the arrival of a newer generation of congregants who are both younger and more transient than the previous immigrant generation. The synagogue and its social life are also portrayed as a microcosm of the gentrification of the neighborhood and resistance to that gentrification.