Funny You Dont Look Like A Rabbi

Author : Lynnda Targan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887043601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny, You Don't Look Like a Rabbi written by Lynnda Targan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the age of fifty, Lynnda Targan was a successful journalist, owner of her own PR company, and happily married mother of two. But deep down inside, she felt called to a different path. Raised in the nurturing, spiritual enclave of her grandparents' close-knit Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, Targan had drifted away from religious rituals when she left her family to attend high school and college in Philadelphia. Now as an adult, she found herself being drawn back to Judaism-and rediscovering the beauty and resonance of its history, its music, its remarkable texts and teachings, its wisdom and its powerful ethical code for living in the modern world. FUNNY, YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE A RABBI tells the story of Targan's surprising transformation from successful working mom to Jewish scholar and spiritual seeker, and chronicles her quest to reinvent herself in midlife and become one of Judaism's relatively few female rabbis. Initially met with skepticism from some within the rabbinical system, and tested by personal and professional challenges along the way, Targan persevered and ultimately excelled in the rigorous academic environment of rabbinical school, becoming an ordained rabbi in 2003. Now a beloved leader in her community who continues to champion the importance of women in Judaism and Jewish leadership throughout the world, Targan shows that it is never too late to find your true calling, change your life, and step into your power-no matter what your age"--

Author : Sylvia Boorstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062031287
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist written by Sylvia Boorstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book, esteemed Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein addresses this incisive question in a warm, delightful and personal way. With the same down-to-earth charm and wit that have endeared her to her many students and readers, Boorstein shows how one can be both an observant Jew and a passionately committed Buddhist.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165815
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Joke written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience"--

Author : Jennifer Caplan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814347320
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny, You Don't Look Funny written by Jennifer Caplan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.

Author : Sidney Brichto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Funny, You Don't Look Jewish' written by Sidney Brichto and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Kiyong Kim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285655
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book JewAsian written by Helen Kiyong Kim and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of intersecting racial, ethnic, and religious identities among couples where one partner is Jewish American and the other is Asian American"--

Author : Casey Breton
Publisher : Green Bean Books
ISBN 13 : 1784385409
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Rogue (At Hebrew School) written by Casey Breton and published by Green Bean Books. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Avery Green loves science. He loves football. He is crazy about Star Wars. But Hebrew school? No, thank you. Avery would rather have his arms sliced off with a lightsaber than sit through one more day of Hebrew School. He’s only asked about a million times why he has to go, but no one in his family has managed to convince him. And then one day, Rabbi Bob shows up. He is strange, but how strange? And strange how? Piecing together some unusual clues, Avery begins to suspect that this new rabbi might be a Jedi master. Armed with something more powerful than a lightsaber, he sets out to reveal the surprising truth. Going Rogue (at Hebrew School) is a hilarious tale about the deep passions of a 10-year-old boy, Judaism, family, big questions and the surprising journey one can have in pursuit of truth and understanding. A book for any child who questions the purpose of religious school and any parent who has run out of answers.

Author : Alan Lew
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580231152
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One God Clapping written by Alan Lew and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi, East meets West in this firsthand account of a spiritual journey. Rabbi Alan Lew is known as the Zen Rabbi, a leader in the Jewish meditation movement who works to bring two ancient religious traditions into our everyday lives. One God Clapping is the story of his roundabout yet continuously provoking spiritual odyssey. It is also the story of the meeting between East and West in America, and the ways in which the encounter has transformed how all of us understand God and ourselves. Winner of the PEN / Joseph E. Miles Award Like a Zen parable or a Jewish folk tale, One God Clapping unfolds as a series of stories, each containing a moment of revelation or instruction that, while often unexpected, is never simple or contrived. One God Clapping, like the life of the remarkable Alan Lew himself, is a bold experiment in the integration of Eastern and Western ways of looking at and living in the world.

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 : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247880
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Comedy: A Serious History written by Jeremy Dauber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands”—including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar—he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history. Dauber also explores the classic works of such masters of Jewish comedy as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, and Larry David, among many others.