Author: Alfred S. CohenPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881250428
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Halacha and Contemporary Society
Author: Alfred S. CohenPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881250428
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society
Author: Contemporary Halakhic Problems
Author: J. David BleichPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870684500
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Rupture and Reconstruction
Author: Haym SoloveitchikPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800857861
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as ‘the swing to the right’, a marked increase in ritual stringency, a rupture in patterns of behaviour that has had major consequences not only for Jewish society but also for the nature of Jewish spirituality. For Haym Soloveitchik, the key feature at the root of this change is that, as a result of migration to the ‘New Worlds’ of England, the US, and Israel and acculturation to its new surroundings, American Jewry—indeed, much of the Jewish world— had to reconstruct religious practice from normative texts: observance could no longer be transmitted mimetically, on the basis of practices observed in home and street. In consequence, behaviour once governed by habit is now governed by rule. This new edition allows the author to deal with criticisms raised since the essay, long established as a classic in the field, was originally published, and enables readers to gain a fuller perspective on a topic central to today’s Jewish world and its development.
Food a Halachic Analysis
Author: Yehuda SpitzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781952370069
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Shabbat Elevator and other Sabbath Subterfuges
Author: Alan DundesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461645603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of books written about Judaism and Jews, but this book is unlike any previously published. It focuses on the topic of 'circumventing custom' with special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden on the Sabbath. After examining the sources of Sabbath observance as set forth in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and rabbinical writings, some of the most salient forms of circumvention are described. These include: riding a special Shabbat elevator, unscrewing the lightbulb in the refrigerator, constructing an eruv (a space extending one's domicile so that objects may be carried outside the home), and relying on the services of the so-called 'Shabbes Goy,' among others. Dundes respectfully analyzes such facets of Jewish characteristics as an undue concern with purity, and a long-established tradition of indulging in nit-picking and argumentation. The resultant picture of Jewish character is drawn from an unusual mixture of religious written texts and oral tradition (jokes and proverbs). The sources range from ancient Israel to works from the twenty-first century. In many ways, it is an authentic and striking Jewish self-portrait that is painted for the very first time in this fascinating volume.
Equality Lost
Author: J. H. HenkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book demonstrates how to interpret Halacha in regard to women in the age of feminism, the conversion to Judaism of children in non-observant homes, and the killing of captured terrorists.
Contemporary Orthodox Judaism's Response to Modernity
Author: Barry FreundelPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881257779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Rabbi Freundel in 31 essays summarizes Orthodox Jewish teaching on a variety of issues.
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy
Author: Marc B. ShapiroPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800858469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Compellingly and authoritatively written, this biography illuminates the dilemmas that Europe’s Jews have faced over the past century. The discussion of the inner struggles of one of twentieth-century Judaism’s most enigmatic religious leaders—a figure who became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy despite his traditional training in a Lithuanian yeshiva—elucidates many institutional and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world, and especially in pre-war Europe, that have so far received little attention.
The Jewish Woman in Contemporary Society
Author: Adrienne BakerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Reflectson and Listens to Jewish Womenin The U.S. and Great Britianin all their differenct contexts, religious and wordly, and asks, what does it mean to be a Jewish woman today?