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  • Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education

    This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present. It traces how Jews have formally and informally transmitted their culture and worldview over the years, with particular attention to the shift from premodernity to modernity and to the unique opportunities and challenges of contemporary American Jewish education. Its authors combine historical background ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Principles and Pedagogies in Jewish Education

    by Barry Chazan ...
    This book is aimed at improving contemporary educational practice by rooting it in clear analytical thinking. The book utilizes the analytic approach to philosophy of education to elucidate the meaning of the terms “education,” “moral education,” “indoctrination,” “contemporary American Jewish education,’’“informal Jewish education,” “the Israel experience,” and “Israel education.” The final ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Israel Education

    A Relational Approach

    by Barry Chazan ...
    This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel regularly faces, whether they be existential, spiritual, democratic, humanitarian, national, etc. Chazan begins by laying out the ... Read more

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  • Balancing on the Mechitza

    Transgender in Jewish Community

    Edited by Noach Dzmura ...
    Series Book 66 - Io Series
    ***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-FictionWhile the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist and LGBT movements in the Jewish world, Jews who identify with the “T” now sit in the congregation, marry ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Coming of Lilith

    Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003

    This first collection of Judith Plaskow's essays and short writings traces her scholarly and personal journey from her early days as a graduate student through her pioneering contributions to both feminist theology and Jewish feminism to her recent work in sexual ethics.Accessibly organized into four sections, the collection begins with several of Plaskow's foundational essays on feminist theology ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Orthodox by Design

    Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution

    by Jeremy Stolow ...
    Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of the ArtScroll revolution, Jeremy Stolow traces the ubiquity of ArtScroll books in local retail markets, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Becoming Frum

    How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

    Series series Jewish Cultures of the World
    Winner, 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish LiteratureWhen non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Radical Responsibility

    Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

    Celebrating one of the greatest Jewish scholars of our time, Radical Responsibility brings together thirteen luminaries of Jewish and Western thought to explore the intellectual legacy of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Centred on the fundamental themes of his work, ethics, justice, religion, and leadership this collection advances Rabbi Sacks' lifelong quest to bridge Torah and secular wisdom, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Midrash & Medicine

    Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition

    Midrash provides a revolutionary guide through the most difficult passages of our life stories.This groundbreaking volume examines the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment and explores how midrash can help you see beyond the physical aspects of healing to tune in to your spiritual source.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, physicians, rabbis, social workers, ... Read more

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  • Healing and the Jewish Imagination

    Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

    Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden Heretics

    Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

    by Ayala Fader ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    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 communitiesWhat 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 ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Holocaust Across Generations

    Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors

    by Janet Jacobs ...
    Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological AssociationBrings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memoryOver the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission of trauma has become an important area of research within both Holocaust studies and the more broad ... Read more

    $20.99 USD