Religion / Judaism

Political and Spiritual: Essays on Religion, Environment, Disability, and Justice

by Roger S. Gottlieb

This book gathers a variety of illuminating essays by an internationally known scholar of religion and ecology. New writings on technology, facing death, and an intellectual autobiography continue Gottlieb’s...

Many Heavens, One Earth: Readings on Religion and the Environment

by Clifford Chalmers Cain

Many Heavens, One Earth is a collection of first-person voices from nine of the world religions. In fifteen articles, devotees and scholars reveal the contributions these traditions make to informing and motivating...

The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services

by Jordan Lee Wagner

Many new to attending synagogue services feel confused and isolated, unsure of what the different parts of the service mean and how to participate. Whether you are a Jew by choice, a Jew rediscovering your religious...

The Committed Life

by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

Drawing on the timeless wisdom of the Torah. Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis reminds us of the principles necessary for living a better and more committed life. Inspirational and deeply moving. This book will touch...

The Committed Marriage

by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

In our turbulent world, it sometimes seems difficult to forge and maintain the bonds of a committed, loving relationship. In The Committed Marriage, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, esteemed teacher, counselor, and...

This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There

by Terry Bookman & William Kahn

Taking up synagogues as its primary example, this book gives vital lessons for congregations of any faith on how to be a healthy community of believers. The House We Build enables readers to learn more deeply...

Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry: Congregations, Their Buildings, and Creation Care

by Mark A. Torgerson

Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide. The book provides a rationale, strategies, and resources for fulfilling environmental stewardship through the land and buildings of Christian...

Tomorrow's Synagogue Today: Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life

by Hayim Herring & Terry Bookman

In today's synagogue, the overall mission of the congregation is not necessarily a given. Tomorrow's Synagogue Today offers creative scenarios to stretch the imagination about how more synagogues could become...

Who Is A Jew?: Conversations, Not Conclusions

by Meryl Hyman

Explores the timely and controversial question of "Who is a Jew?" with leaders from all parts of the Jewish world, eminent scholars and other from all spectrums of belief.

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series: Systemic Perspectives

by Jacob Neusner

This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011–¬2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology.

Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship

by Ronald L. Eisenberg

Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship compiles thorough but manageable entries on the figures most vital to an understanding the scholarship of the post-Talmudic era. Despite the fact that these scholars have...

Playlist Judaism: Making Choices for a Vital Future

by Kerry M. Olitzky & Ron Wolfson

Change is necessary, but what does a synagogue that serves the new needs of American Jewish religious life look like? In Playlist Judaism, Kerry Olitzky offers provocative proposals to help synagogues face today's...

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps

by Yitzhak Arad

"... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."-New York Times Book Review

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The Story of the Jews Volume Two

by Simon Schama

In the second of two volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people, spanning from...

Jewish Wit and Wisdom

by Herb Galewitz

Sometimes hilarious and frequently profound, this collection of aphorisms includes observations and remarks from statesmen, writers, artists, philosophers, jurists, musicians, and celebrities — from the prophets...

Grains of Truth: Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud

by Joshua A. Fogel

This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses...

Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder

by Cantor Matt Axelrod

For those seeking to learn more about Jewish celebrations, Cantor Matt Axelrod has written Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder. Intended for the reader who has no prior knowledge about the...

Altruistic Personality

by Samuel P. Oliner

Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor...

Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran

by Brian Arthur Brown, Laleh Bakhtiar, Marc Zvi Brettler & David Bruce et al.

Three Testaments brings together for the first time the text of the Torah, the New Testament, and the Quran, along with commentaries from notable religion scholars, to help readers explore the connections, as...

Jewish Holiday Style

by Rita Milos Brownstein

At last -- the Jewish holidays transformed into exquisite celebrations, graced with sublime chic and elegant ease for the contemporary Jewish reader. Combining the flair of Martha Stewart with the warmth and...