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Book It s Tot Shabbat

Download or read book It s Tot Shabbat written by Naomi Danis and published by Kar-Ben Publishing ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a class of preschoolers as they learn about celebrating Shabbat. Engaging photos of children show them taking plush Torahs out of the pretend ark and reading a Bible story. They learn to say the blessings over challah and pretend wine before happily joining their parents in the sanctuary.

Book Tot Shabbat Handbook

Download or read book Tot Shabbat Handbook written by Paula Feldstein and published by Urj Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and retaining young families is key to the life of every synagogue big or small. Tot Shabbat worship has become almost universal but many congregations depend on a single dynamic staff member or must start from scratch when beginning a new program.

Book Tot Shabbat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Camille Kress
  • Publisher : Urj Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780807406076
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tot Shabbat written by Camille Kress and published by Urj Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad book for very young children, describing the traditions and atmosphere of Shabbat.

Book Contemporary American Judaism

Download or read book Contemporary American Judaism written by Dana Evan Kaplan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living all over the United States. A pulpit rabbi and himself an American Jew, Dana Evan Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution of the 1960s and the multiple postmodern identities of today. From Hebrew tattooing to Jewish Buddhist meditation, Kaplan describes the remaking of historical tradition in ways that channel multiple ethnic and national identities. While pessimists worry about the vanishing American Jew, Kaplan focuses on creative responses to contemporary spiritual trends that have made a Jewish religious renaissance possible. He believes that the reorientation of American Judaism has been a "bottom up" process, resisted by elites who have reluctantly responded to the demands of the "spiritual marketplace." The American Jewish denominational structure is therefore weakening at the same time that religious experimentation is rising, leading to the innovative approaches supplanting existing institutions. The result is an exciting transformation of what it means to be a religious American Jew in the twenty-first century.

Book The Ultimate Jewish Teacher s Handbook

Download or read book The Ultimate Jewish Teacher s Handbook written by Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: This product is printed when you order it. When you include this product your order will take 5-7 additional days to ship.¬+¬+This complete and comprehensive resource for teachers new and experienced alike offers a "big picture" look at the goals of Jewish education.

Book Growing Together

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey L. Schein
  • Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780867050462
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Growing Together written by Jeffrey L. Schein and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1510 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Being Torah Student Commentary  2

Download or read book Being Torah Student Commentary 2 written by Joel Lurie Grishaver and published by Torah Aura Productions. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for classroom teachers which includes specific examples of materials coupled with anecdotal material which helps personalize these issues. Topics covered: communication, one-time and ongoing; special needs students and parents; family homework; management strategies; shared problem solving; family education days; and an annotated list of commercial materials.

Book The Synagogue in America

Download or read book The Synagogue in America written by Marc Lee Raphael and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the Jewish synagogue in America over the course of three centuries, discussing its changing role in the American Jewish community.

Book Mishkan Tinok Beth El Israel Shabbat Siddur

Download or read book Mishkan Tinok Beth El Israel Shabbat Siddur written by Rabbi Shafir Lobb and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inviting Siddur (Prayer Book) for Tot Shabbat - Evening Kabbalat Shabbat services. The book features easy-to-read Hebrew, transliteration and translation of prayers for Shabbat with the language skills of young children in mind. The translations are gender neutral, including references to the Divine and many Names are used for the One. The prayers are kitzur, short; a full service is represented with options. It is a full color book, large size with large font. There is art on every page, interesting side notes and tidbits to read at any time. Easy guides are provided through the liturgy so that the service will flow easily, even though the leader(s) may never choose the same path twice. It is the intention of this book that the youth and parents be engaged and involved in the service. Do not call them your children, rather your builders.Ve-ani tefilati - I am my prayer.

Book A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

Download or read book A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States written by Norman Drachler and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education. This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education

Book Come As You Aren t

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norine Dresser
  • Publisher : M. Evans
  • Release : 2006-03-17
  • ISBN : 1461710464
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Come As You Aren t written by Norine Dresser and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a new member of a multiracial/interfaith family, the father of a same-sex bride, or the mother of an adopted daughter from China, Norine Dresser offers suggestions for mixed families in avoiding social pitfalls at holidays and rituals for birth, coming of age, marriage, death, and other significant life events.

Book Shabbat Book

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  • Author : Joyce Klein
  • Publisher : Scopus Films
  • Release : 1997-09-01
  • ISBN : 9789657047026
  • Pages : 63 pages

Download or read book Shabbat Book written by Joyce Klein and published by Scopus Films. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book can be read by children alone or in a family setting. With a colorful page for each week of the Jewish calendar, it is designed to integrate the weekly Torah portion with the ideas, traditions and customs of the Sabbath. Conceived and published by the producers of the Animated Haggadah The Shabbat Book will appeal to every Jewish child - and parent.

Book Search for Meaning

Download or read book Search for Meaning written by David Birnbaum and published by New Paradigm Matrix. This book was released on with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Deuteronomy depicts Moses addressing Israel before hisown death as he imagines that some day in the future children willask their parents to explain the meaning of the “testimonies, statutes,and judgments” (Deuteronomy 6:20) that are the foundation of thecovenant that binds Israel to its God. He thus frames in specificallyJewish terms the same set of haunting intimations that all thoughtfulpeople bring to the contemplation of their own lives—and, indeed,to life itself: the sense that being alive can or should mean morethan merely not being dead; that the contemplation of even the mostbanal features of daily life can yield rich insight about the nature ofexistence; and the feeling that life itself can be understood as a kindof scrim that might allow us to see through it to the secrets andmysteries that lie beyond.That set of hopeful suppositions inspires moderns just as stronglyand enticingly as it did the ancients. Yet, the specific question of whatit actually means for this or that part of life to mean anything at allother than what it overtly is (or, at least, appears to be) does not seemto have exerted anywhere near as siren a call on our ancient forebearsas it does on us moderns. Still, as we seek meaning in the world andin our lives, it behooves us to ponder the meaning of meaning as well.These twin notions—that life has meaning beyond what the2 Martin S. Cohencasual observer can see easily, and that the effort to uncover anddecipher that meaning can be profound enough to be spirituallytransformational—have animated the contributors to this volume, astheir work demonstrates just how meaningful the search for meaningcan be. Some have approached this from a spiritual point of view,grounding themselves in traditional biblical, talmudic, or mysticalsources. Others have framed their efforts in political terms or in deeplypersonal ones. And still others have attempted to consider the issuethrough the lens of modern philosophical inquiry. But regardless ofthe specific perspective of any individual author, all have in commonthe deep-seated conviction that life bears meaning…and that thatmeaning can best be discovered not by spending a lifetime hoping formomentary satori but rather by standing on the shoulders of fellowtravelers from earlier eras, and from that slightly elevated vantagepoint seeing just a bit further than they could or did. For almost allof our authors, then, the search for meaning is best understood as anon-going, intergenerational effort that links the seekers of all agesto each other through the contemplation of earlier efforts to mineprofundity and significance from the quarry of human life itself. It is,at best, a slow march forward!As readers will see from the Table of Contents, the ancient Bookof Kohelet has served several of our authors as the framework for theirinterpretive work. (Kohelet is the Hebrew name of the biblical bookalso known as Ecclesiastes, which name is derived from the Greektranslation of the work.) Others have chosen to grapple with thequestion Moses imagined future Jewish children eventually puttingto their parents as they wondered what the commandments actually“mean” in terms of the larger picture of Israelite culture and Jewishlife in our own day. Still others have addressed the search for meaningin life today by taking into account the question of human suffering,considering the issue both generally as a philosophical challenge and3 Prefacemore specifically with reference to the Shoah.Taken all together, the contributors to this volume have put forththe notion that life is ennobled, not trivialized, by the contemplativeeffort to seek meaning in the ebb and flow of life’s experiences…andparticularly in those life-experiences related to the service of God.And yet, for all they are united in that conviction, our authors in thisvolume of the Mesorah Matrix series are nonetheless a diverse group:older and younger women and men, North Americans and Israelisliving at home and abroad, seasoned scholars and newly-mintedrabbis and teachers. They are teachers and researchers trained indifferent schools of thought and affiliated with different movementsand institutions within the mosaic of Jewish life that characterizesthe House of Israel as it enters, by its own reckoning, the final quarterof the fifty-eighth century. They are a varied lot, our authors. But inmany ways, they are are, all of them, cut from the same cloth.Our authors work with the original sources and generally presentthem in their own translations. Citations of “NJPS” refer to thecomplete translation of Scripture first published under the titleTanakh: The Holy Scriptures by the Jewish Publication Society inPhiladelphia in 1985. In this volume, as in all books in the MesorahMatrix series, the four-letter name of God is generally representedby “the Eternal” or “Eternal God.” Authors who are specificallydiscussing the actual four-letter name, on the other hand, mayoccasionally depart from this usage in order to more clearly makethe point of their argument. .I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the othersenior editors of the Mesorah Matrix series: David Birnbaum andRabbi Benjamin Blech, as well as Rabbi Saul J. Berman, our associateeditor. They and our able staff have all supported me as I’ve laboredto bring this volume to fruition and I am grateful to them all.As always, I must also express my gratitude to the men and4 Martin S. Cohenwomen, and particularly to the lay leadership, of the synagogueI serve as rabbi: the Shelter Rock Jewish Center in Roslyn, NewYork. Possessed of the unwavering conviction that their rabbi’s bookprojects are part and parcel of his service to them—and, throughthem, to the larger community of those interested in learning aboutJudaism through the medium of the well-written word—they areremarkably supportive of my literary efforts as author and editor. Iam in their debt, and I am therefore very pleased to acknowledgethat debt formally here and wherever I publish my own work or thework of others.

Book Propaganda and  un covered identities in treatises and sermons  Christians  Jews  and Muslims in the premodern Mediterranean

Download or read book Propaganda and un covered identities in treatises and sermons Christians Jews and Muslims in the premodern Mediterranean written by Ferrero Hernández, Cándida and published by Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven essays included in this collective volume examine a range of textual genres produced by Christians and Muslims throughout the Mediterranean, including materials from the Corpus Islamolatinum, Christian propaganda and polemical works targeting Muslims and Jews, Inquisition records, and Christian and Muslim sermons. Despite the diversity of the works under consideration and the variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches employed in their analysis, the volume is bound together by the common goals of exploring the propaganda strategies premodern authors deployed for specific aims, be it the unification of religious, cultural, and political groups through discourses of self-representation, or the invention of the political, cultural, religious, or gendered other. Many of the essays offer critical re-readings of works that are obscure or have never been studied, while others shed new light on the cultural and textual interactions between Christians, Muslims and Jews. The volume is divided into four sections, the first of which is comprised of three chapters on the Corpus Islamolatinum that furnish new evidence showing the important role this “encyclopedia” played in spreading knowledge about Islam and contributing to the creation of propaganda and polemics against Islam among European intellectual circles. The chapters in section two offer novel interpretations of the hermeneutical strategies underlying the composition of polemical works such as the lives of Muhammad and Pedro de la Cavalleria’s Zelus Christi. The essays in section three identify some common hermeneutical strategies in the use of anti-Jewish and anti-Islamic arguments to polemicize against religious others or edify Christians and illuminate intertextual relations between authors and genres (disputatio and praedicatio). Finally, section four introduces the gender perspective: the genered nature of the accusations of Judaizing in the analysis of the transcripts of the inquisitorial court of three sisters who were tried in Barcelona in 1496, on the one hand, and two studies that explore the constructions of identities and gender relations reflected in various Islamic sources from opposite ends of the Mediterranean. They offer glimpses of women as subject (s) and as object (s) of preaching and show how such texts can reify or subvert traditional binary gender roles.

Book Hakol Kol Yaakov

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. Harris
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-02-08
  • ISBN : 9004420460
  • Pages : 565 pages

Download or read book Hakol Kol Yaakov written by Robert A. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.

Book Jewish Every Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Behrman House
  • Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
  • Release : 2005-06
  • ISBN : 9780867050486
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Jewish Every Day written by Behrman House and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a warm and understanding tone, this guide takes the best in secular early childhood education and applies it to Jewish early childhood education. With extensive bibliographies as well as background information for teachers, individual chapters review developmentally appropriate practice, anti-bias education, storytelling, music, Jewish thematic units, reaching out to interfaith families, keeping kosher at school, and much more.