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  • Jewish Renewal Jewish Renewal
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    Jewish Renewal

    In 1980, Sholom Groesberg changed his life's course. He resigned as dean of engineering at Widener University in order to pursue a career in the rabbinate. Accepted at the Academy for Jewish Religion, he was ordained in 1984. Ten years later Rabbi...
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  • Life on the Fringes Life on the Fringes
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    Life on the Fringes

    Part memoir, part commentary, Life on the Fringes charts a startling Jewish feminist journey both solitary and engaging. Haviva Ner-David draws us into the many facets of her life's story: a complex modern Orthodox childhood (including a battle with...
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  • Rabbis & Their Community Rabbis & Their Community
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    Rabbis & Their Community

    In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community introduces several rabbis w
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  • Truth Springs from the Earth Truth Springs from the Earth
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    Truth Springs from the Earth

    Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century. His search for truth and battles against falsehood and spiritual compromise are the subject of many legends,...
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  • Sermons by American Rabbis Sermons by American Rabbis
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    Sermons by American Rabbis

    This collection of sermons by American rabbis offers insight into the history and evolution of Reform Judaism in the United States. The sermons touch on a range of topics, from the importance of social justice to the challenges of maintaining religious...
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  • The Stage As A Pulpit The Stage As A Pulpit
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    The Stage As A Pulpit

    A sermon delivered by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf in which he explores the role of theater as a vehicle for moral education and spiritual enlightenment.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...
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  • The Orthodox Position The Orthodox Position
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    The Orthodox Position

    In this thought-provoking book, H. M. J. Loewe explores the Orthodox Jewish position on a range of important issues, from the nature of God to the purpose of human existence. Drawing on a deep knowledge of Jewish scripture and tradition, Loewe provides a...
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    Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age
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    Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age

    Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age tackles the following questions: 1. What is Halakhah, and what role has it played in the creative survival of the Jewish people for two millennia? 2. Why is Halakhah no longer capable of functioning as it has until now? 3...
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  • Patriots without a Homeland
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    Patriots without a Homeland

    Patriots without a Homelanddissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy.This study clearly demonstrates that beginning from the late nineteenth century, a strong modernizing trend developed within Orthodoxy based on the...
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    A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony
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    A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony

    A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony is a study of contemporary ultra-Orthodox religiosity in Israel. This book analyzes the ongoing reconstruction of Haredi culture in Israel, a process which has been spurred on by the challenges of modernity, the...
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    Between Heschel and Buber
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    Between Heschel and Buber

    Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber were giant thinkers of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to the understanding of religious consciousness and of Judaism. They wrote on various subjects, such as the Bible, the commandments,...
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    The Boldness of a Halakhist
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    The Boldness of a Halakhist

    The Boldness of a Halakhist analyzes the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein (18291908), author of the Arukh Hashulkhan, a bold and unusual approach to Jewish law. Based primarily on the original text of Rabbi Epstein's legal codes and...
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    A Unique People in a Unique Land

    This book is a collection of two dozen essays published over the past four decades on American Jewish history and culture. They discuss the role that Jews have played in American culture, sports, politics, business, and religion, as well as the nature of...
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    Beyond a Code of Jewish Law

    The ayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810. This code spread quickly throughout Europe, and the demand for it required a second publishing which the author printed in...
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    Contention, Controversy, and Change
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    Contention, Controversy, and Change

    Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and...
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    Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
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    Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse

    Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism...
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    Readings on Maramarosh
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    Readings on Maramarosh

    Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust survivors and...
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    Her Glory All Within
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    Her Glory All Within

    Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in...
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    Personal Theology
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    Personal Theology

    Neil Gillman has been a part of the JTS community for over 50 years as a student, administrator and member of the faculty. His most enduring contribution as a scholar and a teacher has been a renewed focus on the importance of theological reflection in...
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  • The Scroll of Secrets
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    The Scroll of Secrets

    Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the Scroll of Secrets is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nachman of Breslav. Despite its being written in an encoded language, with acronyms and abbreviations, after...
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    The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II

    This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish...
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  • Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism
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    Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism

    This work presents the issues of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America, from the decades of the twenties to the sixties, by looking at the activities of one of its leaders, Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, pulpit rabbi, community leader and writer, whose career spanned...
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  • My Father's Journey
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    My Father's Journey

    Born into a leading Lithuanian-Jewish rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals, pandemics, and pogroms, as well as with new ideas of...
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  • Strictly Kosher Reading
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    Strictly Kosher Reading

    For centuries, fervently observant Jewish communities have produced thousands of works of Jewish law, thought, and spirituality. But in recent decades, the literature of America's Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] community has taken on brand-new forms: selfhelp...
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  • The Jewish State
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    The Jewish State

    Originally published in 1896 as Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State has taken its place among the likes of The Communist Manifesto and Common Sense as polemic writings which have changed modern history. Theodor Herzl's advocacy for a separate, independent...
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  • Hidden Heretics
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    Hidden Heretics

    The Revealer, Winter Reading RecommendationsA revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities.What would you do if you questioned your...
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