Judaism: Life & Practice

Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colourful rabbinic authority in Algiers. In his book, Zohar Harakia, on methods of enumerating the ...

This volume of essays examines key themes in Jewish philosophy and ethics from the rigourous perspective of philosophical analysis. The first set o...

In a lecture title “Jewish Philosophy: An Obituary,” Paul Mendes-Flohr observed that “Jewish philosophers seem to be a dying breed.” However tongue...

In the Jewish communal world, engaging 20- and 30-somethings is a hot button issue: How do we get young Jews to feel connected to Israel? To affili...

Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and se...

Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and se...

This is the first study of historical attempts by anti-animal cruelty groups to prosecute those involved in the killing of animals for food using t...

The suicide of Joanne Limburg's beloved brother Julian left her shattered. When her mother dies too, Joanne pulls herself from the depths of grief ...

Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islami...

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, ...

The religious-Zionist community in Israel developed as an attempt to combine Jewish Law commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of me...

This book deals with the meaning of identity in general and Jewish identity in particular. Different notions of Jewish identity have been formulate...

Everyone has a place at the Passover table. Let's celebrate together!The Gateways Haggadah supports full participation in Passover Seder rituals an...

This book begins by exploring the mysterious origins of an institution so familiar that most of us never wonder where it came from—the seven-day we...

This book begins by exploring the mysterious origins of an institution so familiar that most of us never wonder where it came from—the seven-day we...

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed maj...

With the publication of his runaway bestseller Kosher Sex, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach gained instant fame as a sage and savvy commentator on public and ...

I. Pulner’s dissertation, «Jewish Wedding Ceremonies» (1940), features an impressive volume of field ethnographic materials. Unfortunately, Pulner ...

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of th...

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of th...

Isaac’s Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara,...

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Fri...

For Louis Jacobs, the quest—the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith—was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a...

The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this boo...

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in th...