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Learn how to make your own Jewish fabric crafts with spiritual
intention venture into a world of creativity, imagination &
inspiration.
Journey along with talented Jewish fabric craft artists from
throughout the United States and Israel as they retrace their steps
in the creative process used to make thirty evocative projects.
Then tap into your inner creativity by following step-by-step
instructions to fashion family heirlooms with your own personal
flair. Inspirational and motivational, these projects and stories
will resonate with your artistic soul and awaken a desire to
hand-craft Jewish fabric keepsakes to pass down from generation to
generation. Projects and techniques include:
Quilting Applique Embroidery Needlepoint Cross-stitch Knitting
Crochet Felting Needle felting Tallitot Tallit bags Torah mantles
Challah covers Seder plate Afikomen envelopes Torah table
(shulchan) covers Tree of Life & shalom wall hangings Purim
puppets And more "
This guide provides a vocabulary list of Hebrew and Aramaic words
for students of the Old Testament language. Lists are based on
frequency. Includes pronunciation guide.
Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now
commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into
conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies.
In this book, Sarah Emanuel positions Revelation within its ancient
Jewish context. Proposing a new reading of Revelation, she
demonstrates how the text's author, a first century CE Jewish
Christ-follower, used humor as a means of resisting Roman power.
Emanuel uses multiple critical lenses, including humor, trauma, and
postcolonial theory, together with historical-critical methods.
These approaches enable a deeper understanding of the Jewishness of
the early Christ-centered movement, and how Jews in antiquity
related to their cultural and religious identity. Emanuel's volume
offers new insights and fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on
Revelation and biblical scholarship more broadly.
A guide to help you invigorate your Seder, create lively
discussions, and make personal connections with the Exodus story
today.
For many people, the act of simply reading the Haggadah no
longer fulfills the Passover Seder's purpose: to help you feel as
if you personally had gone out of Egypt. Too often, the ritual meal
has become predictable, boring, and uninspiring.
Creating Lively Passover Seders, Second Edition, is an
innovative, interactive guide to help encourage fresh perspectives
and lively dialogue. With three new chapters, this intriguing
Haggadah companion has been revised, updated, and expanded, and
offers thematic discussion topics, text study ideas, activities,
and readings that come alive in the traditional group setting of
the Passover Seder. Each activity and discussion idea aims to:
Deepen your understanding of the HaggadahProvide new opportunities
for engaging the themes of the Passover festivalDevelop familiarity
with the Exodus story, as well as the life and times of the people
who shaped the development of the Haggadah
Reliving the Exodus is not about remembering an event long ago,
but about participating in a conversation that provides hope and
strength for the struggle to make tomorrow a brighter day. With
this complete resource, you can create more meaningful encounters
with Jewish values, traditions, and texts that lead well beyond the
Seder itself.
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living
mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish
people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing
in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places
across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this
radical change? "The Chosen Few "presents a new answer to this
question by applying the lens of economic analysis to the key facts
of fifteen formative centuries of Jewish history. Maristella
Botticini and Zvi Eckstein offer a powerful new explanation of one
of the most significant transformations in Jewish history while
also providing fresh insights into the growing debate about the
social and economic impact of religion.
A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the
outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their
ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you
questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you
to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
Hidden Heretics tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching
stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in
twenty-first-century New York who lead "double lives" in order to
protect those they love. While they no longer believe that God gave
the Torah to Jews at Mount Sinai, these hidden heretics continue to
live in their families and religious communities, even as they
surreptitiously break Jewish commandments and explore forbidden
secular worlds in person and online. Drawing on five years of
fieldwork with those living double lives and the rabbis, life
coaches, and religious therapists who minister to, advise, and
sometimes excommunicate them, Ayala Fader investigates religious
doubt and social change in the digital age. The internet, which
some ultra-Orthodox rabbis call more threatening than the
Holocaust, offers new possibilities for the age-old problem of
religious uncertainty. Fader shows how digital media has become a
lightning rod for contemporary struggles over authority and truth.
She reveals the stresses and strains that hidden heretics
experience, including the difficulties their choices pose for their
wives, husbands, children, and, sometimes, lovers. In following
those living double lives, who range from the religiously observant
but open-minded on one end to atheists on the other, Fader delves
into universal quandaries of faith and skepticism, the ways digital
media can change us, and family frictions that arise when a person
radically transforms who they are and what they believe. In stories
of conflicts between faith and self-fulfillment, Hidden Heretics
explores the moral compromises and divided loyalties of individuals
facing life-altering crossroads.
A unique memoir that interweaves poetry, narrative, meditation, and
social history, A Spiritual Life explores the complex facets of a
Jewish woman's spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and
spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers
of all types.
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be
Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins
persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became
the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in the hands of
the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, from the
Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple,
there was enormous variation in the way the Torah was understood.
Collins provides a comprehensive account of the role of the Torah
in ancient Judaism, exploring key moments in its history, beginning
with the formation of Deuteronomy and continuing through the
Maccabean revolt and the rise of Jewish sectarianism and early
Christianity.
German Reparations and the Jewish World" has become a standard
reference work since it was first published. Based extensively on
archival sources, the author examines the difficult debate within
the Jewish world whether it was possible to reach a material
settlement with Germany so soon after Auschwitz. Concentrating on
how the money was spent in rebuilding Jewish life, he also analyzes
how the reparations payments transformed the relations bteween
Israel and the diaspora, and between different Jewish political and
ideological groups. This revised and expanded edition includes
material on sensitive relief programmes from archives that have
only recently been opened to researchers. In a new, extensive
introductory essay the author reexamines the reparations,
restitution and indemnification processes from the perspective of
50 years later.
Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work
has focused on what happened to Europe's Jewish communities after
the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the
majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a
significant post-war Jewish community that numbered in the hundreds
of thousands. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 offers
new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades
following the end of World War II. How Jews had been treated during
the war continued to influence both Jewish and non-Jewish society
in the post-war years. The volume examines the ways in which moral
and political issues of responsibility combined with the urgent
problems and practicalities of restoration, and it illustrates how
national imperatives, international dynamics, and a changed
self-perception all profoundly helped to shape the fortunes of
postwar French Judaism.Comprehensive and informed, this volume
offers a rich variety of perspectives on Jewish studies, modern and
contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy,
sociology, and theology. With contributions from leading scholars,
including Edward Kaplan, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and Jay Winter, the
book establishes multiple connections between such different areas
of concern as the running of orphanages, the establishment of new
social and political organisations, the restoration of teaching and
religious facilities, and the development of intellectual responses
to the Holocaust. Comprehensive and informed, this volume will be
invaluable to readers working in Jewish studies, modern and
contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy,
sociology, and theology.
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of
thinking and talking about everything Typically translated as
"Jewish law," halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually
thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has
rarely wielded the political power to enforce its rules, nor has it
ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically, the
talmudic rabbis claim the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that
brings a person closer to God-a claim no country makes of its law.
Chaim Saiman traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts
forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies
assign not only to philosophy, political theory, theology, and
ethics but also to art, drama, and literature. Guiding readers
across two millennia of richly illuminating perspectives, this
panoramic book shows how halakhah is not just "law" but an entire
way of thinking, being, and knowing.
In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum
explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food
practices. In particular he focuses on how ancient Jews defended
the kosher laws, or kashrut, and how ancient Greeks, Romans, and
early Christians critiqued these practices. As the kosher laws are
first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in
ancient biblical interpretation. It explores how commentators in
antiquity understood, applied, altered, innovated upon, and
contemporized biblical dietary regulations. He shows that these
differing interpretations do not exist within a vacuum; rather,
they are informed by a variety of motives, including theological,
moral, political, social, and financial considerations. In
analyzing these ancient conversations about culture and cuisine, he
dissects three rhetorical strategies deployed when justifying
various interpretations of ancient Jewish dietary regulations:
reason, revelation, and allegory. Finally, Rosenblum reflects upon
wider, contemporary debates about food ethics.
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the
middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men
and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished
from our collective memory despite their enduring importance in our
daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be
no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no
chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without
Rosalind Franklin genetic science would look very different.
Without Fritz Haber there would not be enough food to sustain life
on earth. These visionaries all have something in common - their
Jewish origins and a gift for thinking outside the box. In 1847 the
Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population,
and yet they saw what others could not. How?
The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest
shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational
archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three
volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in
detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the
text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the
Jewish beginnings of Christianity.
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Gavin D'Costa breaks new ground in this authoritative study of the
Second Vatican Council's doctrines on other religions, with
particular attention to Judaism and Islam. The focus is exclusively
on the doctrinal foundations found in Lumen Gentium 16 that will
serve Catholicism in the twenty first century. D'Costa provides a
map outlining different hermeneutical approaches to the Council,
whilst synthesising their strengths and providing a critique of
their weaknesses. Moreover, he classifies the different authority
attributed to doctrines thereby clarifying debates regarding
continuity, discontinuity, and reform in doctrinal teaching.
Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims expertly
examines the Council's revolutionary teaching on Judaism which has
been subject to conflicting readings, including the claim that the
Council reversed doctrinal teachings in this area. Through a
rigorous examination of the debates, the drafts, the official
commentary, and with consideration of the previous Council and
papal doctrinal teachings on the Jews, D'Costa lays bare the
doctrinal achievements of the Council, and concludes with a similar
detailed examination of Catholic doctrines on Islam. This
innovative text makes essential interventions in the debate about
Council hermeneutics and doctrinal teachings on the religions.
A philosophical case against religious violence We live in an age
beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as "holy war"
are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the
relationship between holiness and violence? Can acts such as murder
ever truly be described as holy? In Does Judaism Condone Violence?,
Alan Mittleman offers a searching philosophical investigation of
such questions in the Jewish tradition. Jewish texts feature
episodes of divinely inspired violence, and the position of the
Jews as God's chosen people has been invoked to justify violent
acts today. Are these justifications valid? Or does our
understanding of the holy entail an ethic that argues against
violence? Reconstructing the concept of the holy through a
philosophical examination of biblical texts, Mittleman finds that
the holy and the good are inextricably linked, and that our
experience of holiness is authenticated through its moral
consequences. Our understanding of the holy develops through
reflection on God's creation of the natural world, and our values
emerge through our relations with that world. Ultimately, Mittleman
concludes, religious justifications for violence cannot be
sustained. Lucid and incisive, Does Judaism Condone Violence? is a
powerful counterargument to those who claim that the holy is
irrational and amoral. With philosophical implications that extend
far beyond the Jewish tradition, this book should be read by anyone
concerned about the troubling connection between holiness and
violence.
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