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Jewish Women who rock. Stories that inspire. Illustrations that pop.
If you loved the bestselling Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls series, you will love Goodnight Golda!
Here are 32 Jewish women who have shaped Jewish history and the Jewish mindset. Some use their wits, other their looks, some their talent, others their perspective. They are the trailblazers, achievers, visionaries and preservers of faith that have shaped our reality, and on whose shoulders we, as young (and not so young) 21st Century Jewish (and other) women, stand.
The women featured range from biblical (Yael and Ester) and history-makers (Anne Frank and Hannah Senesh) to contemporary voices (like Sivan Yaári and Donna Karan) and visionary/activists (like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sarah Schenirer), and hail from across the world - from Portugal to USA, UK to Poland, Israel to South Africa, Ethiopia to Canada.
Each heroine has a short biography and entertaining story on how they changed their world and ours. Each heroine has her own gorgeous illustration – contemporary, vivid and fun. This is a book for the future heroines of the Jewish people, and beyond.
Dov Fedler was a "laatlammetjie", born and bred in Johannesburg in 1940 just as Hitler was getting into his stride. A third child was not on his parents' "want-list". It was hard enough supporting two much older children and a printing business struggling to exist.
When Dov was about three his mother had a "nervous breakdown" which is when he remembers seeing his first pencil and knowing precisely what it was that he wanted to do with his life. There are no coincidences in Dov's life. He believes that a hand of destiny has steered his path towards becoming a leading South African cartoonist for more than 45 years. Many dramatic encounters (not with aliens or spirits, but with everyday people) have shaped him and he wouldn't have missed any of it.
Dov's story is intensely personal and honest, with a powerful combination of humour, emotion and community history. OUt Of Line attempts to do a few short things. It is an autobiography but it is also an attempt to capture a particular history of a specific generation; that of the Jewish baby boomers who descended from mainly Lithuanian stock.
A leading public intellectual’s timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.
What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other—and live their lives accordingly?
Writing sympathetically but incisively about diverse outlooks, Feldman clarifies what’s at stake in the choice of how to be a Jew, and discusses the shared “theology of struggle” that Jews engage in as they wrestle with who God is, what God wants, or whether God exists. He shows how the founding of Israel has transformed Judaism itself over the last century—and explores the ongoing consequences of that transformation for all Jews, who find the meaning of their Jewishness and their views about Israel intertwined, no matter what those views are. And he examines the analogies between being Jewish and belonging to a large, messy family—a family that often makes its members crazy, but a family all the same.
Written with learning, empathy and clarity, To Be a Jew Today is a critical resource for readers of all faiths.
These essays address Jewish identity, Jewish survival, and Jewish
continuity. The authors account for and analyze trends in Jewish
identification and the reciprocal effects of the relationship
between the Diaspora and Israel at the end of the twentieth
century. Jewish identification in contemporary society is a complex
phenomenon. Since the emancipation of Jews in Europe and the major
historic events of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State
of Israel, there have been substantial changes in the collective
Jewish identity. As a result, Jewish identity and the Jewish
process of identification had to confront the new realities of an
open society, its economic globalization, and the impacts of
cultural pluralism. The trends in Jewish identification are toward
fewer and weaker points of attachment: fewer Jews who hold
religious beliefs with such beliefs held less strongly; less
religious ritual observance; attachment to Zionism and Israel
becoming diluted; and ethnic communal bonds weakening. Jews are
also more involved in the wider society in the Diaspora due to
fewer barriers and less overt anti-Semitism. This opens up
possibilities for cultural integration and assimilation. In Israel,
too, there are signs of greater interest in the modern world
culture. The major questions addressed by this volume is whether
Jewish civilization will continue to provide the basic social
framework and values that will lead Jews into the twenty-first
century and ensure their survival as a specific social entity. The
book contains special contributions by Professor Julius Gould and
Professor Irving Louis Horowitz and chapters on "Sociological
Analysis of Jewish Identity"; "Jewish Community Boundaries"; and
"Factual Accounts from the Diaspora and Israel."
"Rediscovering the Beauty of Sabbath Rest"
Our bodies and souls were "created "to rest--regularly--and when
they do, we experience heightened productivity, improved health,
and more meaningful relationships.
In these pages you'll find wonderful stories of the senator's
spiritual journey, as well as special Sabbath experiences with
political colleagues such as Bill Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, John
McCain, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Bob Dole, and others. Senator
Joe Lieberman shows how his observance of the Sabbath has not only
enriched his personal and spiritual life but enhanced his career
and enabled him to serve his country to his greatest capacity.
Discover God's Plans for Israel, the Church, the End Times, and
Beyond In his book Israel and the Church, bestselling author and
native Israeli Amir Tsarfati illuminates God's current and future
plans for His chosen ones-the Jewish people and the Christian
church. With this instructive companion, you'll learn more about
why these topics are so relevant today. Get ready to... understand
and apply Bible prophecy to your daily life grow more aware of how
God is working in Israel right now learn why it's so vital that
Christians support Israel appreciate God's faithfulness to both the
Jewish people and Christians To accurately comprehend what God has
in store for the future, it's vital to understand His promises to
Israel for all time. The Israel and the Church Study Guide will
help you do exactly that, equipping you to explore the Bible's many
revelations about what we can expect in the days and ages to come.
David Tabor (1913-2005) was a highly respected and much loved
member of the Cambridge Jewish community for almost sixty years.
This book contains his Kol Nidre addresses, Bar Mitzvah talks and
funeral eulogies, as well as a selection of poems, articles and
other talks on Jewish topics.
Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence
officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it
was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she
discovered he was also Jewish. So began a quest to discover the
truth about his past - one that perhaps would help answer the
niggling doubts she had always had about her 'perfect' father.
Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely guarded cache
of family books and papers, Vicky discovered the identity of her
grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar,
hugely controversial in both life and in death, who was a protege
and possible lover of Thomas Mann, and a friend of Berthold Brecht
and Stefan Zweig. How much of her father's child was Vicky - and
how much of his father's child was he? As Vicky worked to uncover
deeply buried family secrets, she would find herself slowly
unpicking the lingering power of 'survivors' guilt' on the
generations that followed the Holocaust, and would learn, via a
deathbed confession, of the existence of a previously unknown
sister. Together, the sisters attempted to come to terms with what
had made their father into the deeply flawed, complex, yet
charismatic man he has always been, journeying together through
grief and heartache towards forgiveness.
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