Evolution Of An Unorthodox Rabbi

Author : John Moscowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525262388
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of an Unorthodox Rabbi written by John Moscowitz and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part social history, this fascinating book captures a rabbi who during his prominent public career begins to change his views - sometimes at odds with his liberal milieu - about the charged matters among Jews today.

Author : John Moscowitz
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459733207
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of an Unorthodox Rabbi written by John Moscowitz and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A most unorthodox rabbi revisits twenty-five turbulent years in Toronto’s Reform Jewish community. John Moscowitz is an unlikely rabbi who rejected a religious life as a teenager and spent his formative years as a social activist under the wing of a radical professor. It is hard to say what path his life might have taken, had not a spiritual awakening led him to devote his life to the service of the Jewish community. This set him on a path to becoming one of Toronto’s most cherished and effective rabbis over the past twenty-five years. For the congregants of Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto’s oldest Reform synagogue, those twenty-five years were a great blessing. In the sermons he has gathered here, Rabbi Moscowitz looks back at the temple and congregation he served for so long. A most unconventional rabbi indeed, he charts the rapid shifts in thinking on issues including same-sex marriage, peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and gun control laws. Part memoir, part social history, this book is also a deep examination of a long, personal and public journey into the centre of an evolving community of faith.

Author : Eddy Portnoy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603970
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Rabbi written by Eddy Portnoy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have found their way into the history books far less frequently than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish newspapers that had their heyday from the 1880s to the 1930s. Disaster, misery, and misfortune: you will find no better chronicle of the daily ignominies of urban Jewish life than in the pages of the Yiddish press. An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi exposes the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With true stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on the prowl—in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown Yiddish world that was.

Author : Emanuel Feldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899065182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales Out of Shul written by Emanuel Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there were a hall of fame of America's Orthodox rabbinate, Emanuel Feldman would be a charter member. Long before the word teshuvah became fashionable, he took a moribund congregation in Atlanta, turned it into a vibrant community, and led it for 40 years. In this poignant, delightful, provocative, uproarious, idealistic, uplifting journal, Rabbi Feldman takes us behind the pulpit as no one ever has before. Meet saints and scoundrels, righteous people and sinners, the movers and the meek. Tag along on countless everyday adventures. Taste sweet success and bitter failure. A marvelous book, by a heroic leader, graceful writer, and incisive thinker. Don't miss it! A Shaar Press Publication.

Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827612915
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History written by Zev Eleff and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that helped form Modern Orthodox Judaism. These include the traditionalists’ response to the early expressions of Reform Judaism, as well as incidents that helped define the widening differences between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in the early twentieth century. Other texts explore the internal struggles to maintain order and balance once Orthodox Judaism had separated itself from other religious movements. Zev Eleff combines published documents with seldom-seen archival sources in tracing Modern Orthodoxy as it developed into a structured movement, established its own institutions, and encountered critical events and issues—some that helped shape the movement and others that caused tension within it. A general introduction explains the rise of the movement and puts the texts in historical context. Brief introductions to each section guide readers through the documents of this new, dynamic Jewish expression.

Author : Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Publisher : New York, Reconstructionist Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greater Judaism in the Making written by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan and published by New York, Reconstructionist Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, Judaism has been under attack by other religions, attacks which strengthened the identification of the group as a whole. Modern challenges, however, are coming from different directions, and are producing different results. Jewish identification is declining at the same time as more and more Jewish groups to identify with are rising. Rather than being a disaster, Kaplan argues that the multiplicity of threads in Jewish life today represents the process of a radical transformation "nothing less than metamorphosis." It is in this way that Judaism is creating its own future, the greater Judaism in the making.

Author : Deborah Feldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439187010
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unorthodox written by Deborah Feldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's upbringing in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the strict rules that governed her life, arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life.

Author : Rabbi Benjamin Blech
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101198664
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture written by Rabbi Benjamin Blech and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're no idiot, of course. You know that Judaism began with Abraham and that Moses led the children out of slavery in Egypt. But when it comes to knowing who Elijah, Esther, and Judah Maccabee were, and their significance to Judaism, you feel like you've been wandering in the desert for 40 years. Don't feel Jewish guilt just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Jewish History and Culture provides you with a complete, authoritative account of the Jewish people—from Abraham, Moses, and King David to Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Rabin.

Author : Rabbi Jeffrey Wildstein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1615647821
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism written by Rabbi Jeffrey Wildstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idiot's Guides: Judaism is written by an accomplished Rabbi and teacher for both a non-Jewish person, as well as any Jewish person who wishes to learn more. The book offers a thorough examination and covers the five books of Moses, Jewish law, history, and important Jewish scholars. Jewish life, Holy Days, and a comparison to Christianity are also included, along with twenty frequently asked questions.

Author : Rabbi Lynnda Targan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887043724
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny, You Don't Look Like a Rabbi written by Rabbi Lynnda Targan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targan's memoir tells the story of her surprising transformation from successful working mom to spiritual seeker and Jewish scholar, and how she reinvented herself in midlife to become a rabbi. Now a beloved leader in her community, Targan shows that it is never too late to find your true calling and step into your power-no matter your age.