God Jews And The Media

Author : Yoel Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415475031
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Jews and the Media written by Yoel Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. Covering the Diaspora populations of the US and UK as well as Israel itself, this book delves into the complex relationship between Judaism and the mass media to provide a comprehensive examination of modern Jewish identity.

Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814740871
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews, God, and Videotape written by Jeffrey Shandler and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering examination of the impact of new communications technologies and media practices on the religious life of American Jewry Engaging media has been an ongoing issue for American Jews, as it has been for other religious communities in the United States, for several generations. Shandler’s examples range from early recordings of cantorial music to Hasidic outreach on the Internet. In between he explores mid-twentieth-century ecumenical radio and television broadcasting, video documentation of life cycle rituals, museum displays and tourist practices as means for engaging the Holocaust as a moral touchstone, and the role of mass-produced material culture in Jews’ responses to the American celebration of Christmas. Shandler argues that the impact of these and other media on American Judaism is varied and extensive: they have challenged the role of clergy and transformed the nature of ritual; facilitated innovations in religious practice and scholarship, as well as efforts to maintain traditional observance and teachings; created venues for outreach, both to enhance relationships with non-Jewish neighbors and to promote greater religiosity among Jews; even redefined the notion of what might constitute a Jewish religious community or spiritual experience. As Jews, God, and Videotape demonstrates, American Jews’ experiences are emblematic of how religious communities’ engagements with new media have become central to defining religiosity in the modern age.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669388476
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Max I. Dimont's Jews, God, and History written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-23T22:59:00Z with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first signs of civilization, with all the classical symptoms, appeared around 4500 B. C. In the third millennium B. , a great Semitic king named Sargon I conquered the Sumerians and formed the Sumerian-Akkadian kingdom. #2 The first people to be called Hebrews were the descendants of Terah, who emigrated from the cosmopolitan city of Ur in Babylonia to the land of Haran in southern Turkey. God promised Abraham that He would make him a separate and distinct people if he followed the commandments of God. #3 The idea of a covenant between the Jews and God is still alive today. It was Abraham who projected this experience onto an imaginary Jehovah, but the fact remains that after four thousand years, the idea of a covenant between the Jews and God is still alive. #4 The Jews, after they had been exiled from Egypt, were forced to live as nomads. They were given the Ten Commandments by Moses, and they began to behave differently than the surrounding pagans. They developed a ritual that was different from that of the surrounding pagans.

Author : Yoel Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136338586
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Jews and the Media written by Yoel Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. This book delves into the complex relationship between Judaism and the mass media to provide a comprehensive examination of modern Jewish identity in the information age. Covering Israel as well as the Diaspora populations of the US and UK, the author looks at journalism, broadcasting, advertising and the internet to give a wide-ranging analysis of how the Jewish religion and Jewish people have been influenced by the media age. He tackles questions such as: What is the impact of Judaism on mass media? How is the religion covered in the secular Israeli media? Does the coverage strengthen religious identity? What impact does the media have upon secular-religious tensions? Chapters explore how the impact of Judaism is to be found particularly in the religious media in Israel – haredi and modern Orthodox – and looks at the evolution of new patterns of religious advertising, the growth and impact of the internet on Jewish identity, and the very legitimacy of certain media in the eyes of religious leaders. Also examined are such themes as the marketing of rabbis, the `Holyland’ dimension in foreign media reporting from Israel, and the media’s role in the Jewish Diaspora. An important addition to the existing literature on the nature of Jewish identity in the modern world, this book will be of great interest to scholars of media studies, media and religion, sociology, Jewish studies, religion and politics, as well as to the broader Jewish and Israeli communities.

Author : Max I. Dimont
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497626994
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews in America written by Max I. Dimont and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wondrous tale of American Judaism” from the Colonial Era to the twentiethcentury, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History (Kirkus Reviews). Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various waves of immigration that brought people and families from Germany, Russia, and beyond; recounts the cultural achievements of those who escaped oppression in their native lands; and discusses the movement away from Orthodoxy and the attitudes of American Jews—both religious and secular—toward Israel. From the author of Jews, God, and History, which has sold more than one million copies and was called “unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language” by the LosAngeles Times, this is a compelling account by an author who was himself an immigrant, raised in Helsinki, Finland, before arriving at Ellis Island in 1929 and going on to serve in army intelligence in World War II.

Author : Jamie S. Korngold
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580234437
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God Upgrade written by Jamie S. Korngold and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative look at the many faces of God, Jamie Korngold examines how our concept of God has changed over the centuries, and how these changes have shaped every aspect of Judaism.

Author : Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1580235875
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God Upgrade written by Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For people who don't believe that God can intervene in our lives, and why Judaism is still important. "Judaism has so much to teach us about how we treat ourselves, each other, and our planet.... Of course, you can learn these values elsewhere. But as a people, Jews have thousands of years of experience turning this kind of stuff over and over. [We’ve] had millions of users working to debug the system. Rather than look to other sources for guidance, let us turn to our own people’s past to discover what it has to say about our present and our future." —from the Introduction For some people, the biggest stumbling block in religion is God—even for an ordained rabbi who admits her rational mind “can’t buy into a God in the sky who writes down our deeds and rewards and punishes us accordingly.” But not being sold on an intervening God shouldn’t bar you from living a vibrant and fulfilling Jewish life. The God concept has seen many upgrades over the centuries and it is these reinterpretations that have kept Judaism relevant. In this provocative look at the ways in which God concepts have evolved and been upgraded through the centuries, Adventure Rabbi Jamie Korngold examines how our changing ideas of God have shaped every aspect of Judaism. With enthusiasm and humor, she shows that by aligning our understanding of God with modern sensibilities, Judaism can be made more meaningful, accessible and fully compatible with twenty-first-century life.

Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300152337
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Judaism written by Arthur Green and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may yet be viewed as dwelling places of the sacred. In doing so, he rethinks such concepts as God, the origins and meaning of existence, human nature, and revelation to construct a new Judaism for the twenty-first century.

Author : Maya Balakirsky Katz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900442864X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intersections between Jews and Media written by Maya Balakirsky Katz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersections between Jews and Media explores both the real Jews who embraced mass media and the fantasies they inspired.

Author : Yoel Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138833845
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbis and Reporters in the Holyland written by Yoel Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbis and Reporters in the Digital Holyland seeks to focus on the key relationship of rabbis and journalists given their role in influencing the national agenda about religion inside Israel.