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Navigating the Journey

2017-12-04 Religion
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Release : 2017-12-04
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Navigating the Journey by : Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, PhD

Download or read book Navigating the Journey written by Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, PhD. This book was released on 2017-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised and updated classic resource serves as an introduction to the Jewish life cycle. The first part of the book uses a question and answer format to introduce ideas about moments in the Jewish life cycle, including birth, Jewish education, bar/bat mitzvah, the Jewish home, marriage, divorce, conversion, death, and mourning. With new essays on topics such as mitzvah, infertility, the ketubah, b'rit milah, welcoming converts, tzedakah, Jewish voices on sexuality, and more, by rabbis and scholars such as Rabbis Aaron Panken, Rachel Mikva, Amy Schienerman, A. Brian Stoller, Lisa Grushcow, Mary Zamore, and Elyse Goldstein. This is the essential resource you've been waiting for!

Memories of Eden

2016-03-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-03-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Memories of Eden by : Violette Shamash

Download or read book Memories of Eden written by Violette Shamash. This book was released on 2016-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir—an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays and sending them to the Roccas. The resulting book begins near the end of Ottoman rule and runs through the British Mandate, the emergence of an independent Iraq, and the start of dictatorial government. Shamash clearly loved the world in which she grew up but is altogether honest in her depiction of the transformation of attitudes toward Baghdad’s Jewish population. Shamash’s world is finally shattered by the Farhud, the name given to the massacre of hundreds of Iraqi Jews over three days in 1941. An event that has received very slight historical coverage, the Farhud is further described and placed in context in a concluding essay by Tony Rocca.

Journeys to a Jewish Life

2007 Religion
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Release : 2007
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Journeys to a Jewish Life by : Paula Amann

Download or read book Journeys to a Jewish Life written by Paula Amann. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amid renewed interest in spirituality, and heightened worries about Jewish continuity, this timely book examines the return of disaffected Jews to an authentic Jewish life and what their searches and findings mean for the future of modern liberal Judaism. Their unapologetically honest stories illustrate the spiritual wealth that drew them back into the heart of Jewish tradition. They also suggest areas of Judaism's religious and community institutions that need to grow and change." "More than just personal retellings, these stories of rejecting, rediscovering and reclaiming Judaism hold powerful lessons you can use to strengthen your community, as well as your own relationship with Jewish faith, prayer, ritual and God."--BOOK JACKET.

Jewish Journeys

2006 Travel
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Release : 2006
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Jewish Journeys by : Jeremy Leigh

Download or read book Jewish Journeys written by Jeremy Leigh. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'journey' is at the heart of the Jewish experience - an anthology of Jewish 'travel writing'

Once We Were Slaves

2021-07-12 History
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Release : 2021-07-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Once We Were Slaves by : Laura Arnold Leibman

Download or read book Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman. This book was released on 2021-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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