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Living a Jewish life : Jewish traditions, customs, and values for today's families / by Diamant, Anita,author.(CARDINAL)346735; Cooper, Howard,1956-author.(CARDINAL)362074;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Living a Jewish Life presents Judasim as a blueprint for living mindfully and honorably in the here and now. This new edition extends the reach of the classic guide, which has been a favorite among Jewish educators and students for years. Enriched with new resources, including ways to connect and learn online, this updated guide reflects many of the profound and subtle changes that both challenge and enrich the Jewish community today. Addressing the choices and challenges of the twenty-first-century world, Living a Jewish Life is a welcoming doorway into meaningful Jewish tradition and belief, exploring the spectrum of liberal Jewish thought, practice, and expression: Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform, unaffiliated, cultural, and secular. Celebrating the diversity of Jewish beliefs, the book presents a wealth of information that allows readers to make informed choices as they bring Judasim into their lives"--Back cover.
Subjects: Judaism; Jewish way of life.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Sacred texts of the world [videorecording] / by Hardy, Grant,1961-(CARDINAL)671947; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Grant Hardy, instructor.DVD ; NTSC.
Subjects: Sacred works.; Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Religions.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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How I stopped being a Jew / by Sand, Shlomo,author.(CARDINAL)749724;
"Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a "secular Jew." With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the "chosen people" myth and its "holocaust industry." Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what "Jewish" means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Sand, Shlomo.; Jews; Judaism and state; National characteristics, Israeli.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A book forged in hell : Spinoza's scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age / by Nadler, Steven M.,1958-(CARDINAL)345558;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.Prologue -- The theological-political problem -- Rasphuis -- Gods and prophets -- Miracles -- Scripture -- Judaism, Christianity, and true religion -- Faith, reason, and the state -- Libertas philosophandi -- The onslaught."When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--'godless,' 'full of abominations,' 'a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself.' Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. It is not hard to see why Spinoza's Treatise was so important or so controversial, or why the uproar it caused is one of the most significant events in European intellectual history. In the book, Spinoza became the first to argue that the Bible is not literally the word of God but rather a work of human literature; that true religion has nothing to do with theology, liturgical ceremonies, or sectarian dogma; and that religious authorities should have no role in governing a modern state. He also denied the reality of miracles and divine providence, reinterpreted the nature of prophecy, and made an eloquent plea for toleration and democracy. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.; Philosophy and religion.; Religion and politics.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The chosen wars : how Judaism became an American religion / by Weisman, Steven R.,author.(CARDINAL)265081;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index."The Chosen Wars tells the dramatic story of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the 18th and 19th centuries--the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, importantly, the force of the American dynamic that prevailed over an ancient religion. The struggles that led to a radical redefinition of Judaism illuminate the larger American experience. The transformation of the religion and culture of Judaism is a striking example. The story begins with the arrival of the first Jews in New Amsterdam and stretches the length of the nineteenth century as massive immigration take place and into the twentieth. First there was the practical matter of earning a living. Many immigrants traveled as peddlers from community to community where there were no kosher butchers. Doctrine was put aside. Then, determined to take their places as equals in the young nation, American Jews rejected identity as a separate nation and embraced a secular America. Judaism became an American religion. The changes did not come without argument, and Weisman tells the stories of the colorful rabbis and activists, including women, who would ultimately define American Judaism, and its divisions of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox which remain today: Rabbi Isaac Wise; Mordecai Manuel Noah; Moses Mendelssohn; Rebecca Gratz; Isaac Leeser are some of the major figures. The Chosen Wars is the important story of how Judaism enhanced America, and how America inspired Judaism"--
Subjects: Judaism; Judaism;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The great and holy war : how World War I became a religious crusade / by Jenkins, Philip,1952-(CARDINAL)278620;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-417) and index.Introduction : from angels to Armageddon -- The Great War : the age of massacre -- God's war : Christian nations, holy warfare, and the kingdom of God -- Witnesses for Christ : cosmic war, sacrifice and martyrdom -- The ways of God : faith, heresy and superstition -- The war of the end of the world : visions of the last days -- Armageddon : dreams of apocalypse in the war's savage last year -- The sleep of religion : Europe's crisis and the rise of secular messiahs -- Ruins of Christendom : reconstructing Christian faith at the end of the age -- A new Zion : the crisis of European Judaism and the vision of a new world -- Those from below : the spiritual liberation of the world's subject peoples -- Genocide : the destruction of the oldest Christian world -- African prophets : how new churches and new hopes arose outside Europe -- Without a caliph : the Muslim quest for a Godly political order.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; Nationalism; Nationalism; Messianism.; Eschatology.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Kaddish.com / by Englander, Nathan,author.(CARDINAL)345380;
"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his mother and sisters, Larry refuses--thus imperiling the fate of his father's soul. To appease them, and in penance for failing to mourn his father correctly, he hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called Kaddish.com to recite the daily prayer and shepherd his father's soul safely to rest. This is Nathan Englander's freshest and funniest work to date--a satire that touches, lightly and with unforgettable humor, on the conflict between religious and secular worlds, and the hypocrisies that run through both. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet, which, like God, is everywhere"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Satirical literature.; Domestic fiction.; Fiction.; Fathers; Atheism; Orthodox Judaism; Grief; Internet; Internet; Families; Jews; Jewish families; Jewish families; Novels.; Fathers.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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Dear zealots : letters from a divided land / by Oz, Amos,1939-2018author.(CARDINAL)132542; Cohen, Jessica(Translator)(CARDINAL)353214;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127).'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize This essential collection of three new essays was written out of a sense of urgency, concern, and a belief that a better future is still possible. It touches on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures; the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel; and the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally. Amos Oz boldly puts forward his case for a two-state solution in what he calls 'a question of life and death for the State of Israel'. Wise, provocative, moving and inspiring, these essays illuminate the argument over Israeli, Jewish and human existence, shedding a clear and surprising light on vital political and historical issues, and daring to offer new ways out of a reality that appears to be closed down.
Subjects: Essays.; Fanaticism.; Judaism and humanism.; Democracy; Toleration.; Arab-Israeli conflict.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Sacred texts of the world [sound recording] by Hardy, Grant,1961-(CARDINAL)671947; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lectures by professor Grant Hardy, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Subjects: Religions.; Sacred books.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Vegan revolution : saving our world, revitalizing Judaism / by Schwartz, Richard H.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Part 1: The Crisis and the promise -- 1. Why Jews should be vegans -- 2. The vegan revolution -- 3. Health -- 4. The treatment of animals -- 5. The climate catastrophe -- 6. The environment -- 7. Hunger -- 8. Peace -- 9. The fish of the sea -- 10. Veganism and animal rights -- 11. The future for cultivated animal products -- 12. Veganism and animal rights -- 13. Living as a vegan and a Jew -- Appendices: A. Voices of vegan activists -- B: Dialogue between a Jewish vegan and a Rabbi -- C: The vegan Jewish year -- D. A vegan view of the biblical animal sacrifices -- E. Tefillin and other ritual."For over four decades, Richard Schwartz has engaged with two ethically rich ways of living that, as he charts in this book, he came to appreciate in middle age: Judaism and veganism. Having been born into a secular Jewish family, it was his marriage and an increasing commitment to social justice that propelled him to study and rediscover the essence of his Jewish faith. That sense of social justice further raised his awareness of the environmental movement, and, ultimately, to animal rights and veganism. In Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism, Schwartz shows how, now perhaps more than ever, veganism offers a pathway for all of us of whatever faith (or no faith) to reduce hunger, conserve the environment, save water, reinstitute justice, and care for animals and the Earth. It is no coincidence, as Schwartz demonstrates, that many of these ideas are mandates in Jewish scripture, and that reincorporating a care for the world (tikkun olam) can itself reinvigorate the spirit of a faith and galvanize its practitioners to act"--
Subjects: Veganism; Jewish ethics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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