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Book Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage

Download or read book Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage written by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage offers a treasury of tales that speak to the tenderness and passion, difficulties and blessings of love. Jewish tradition overflows with love stories from the Bible, Talmud, and Midrash. Folktales continue the tradition, and contemporary writers highlight the way their faith and love interweave and enrich each other. From Adam and Eve to Song of Songs, from legends of Solomon to the letters of Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, these are stories of heartbreak, devotion, and celebration. They tell of how people fall in love and how they grow in love. The narratives are as old as the Bible and as new as the twenty-first century. They come from places as far-ranging as Yemen and New York. The relationships are heterosexual and homosexual, arranged and spontaneous, young and mature. Though the stories reflect the times and places in which they were told, they have a universal message about longing and romance, relationship, respect, and commitment. Noted storyteller Peninnah Schram and Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso collect these narratives and letters for the first time, inviting readers to delve into these stories for entertainment and inspiration, at engagements, weddings, and anniversaries, to recall what once brought people close and what continues to hold them in love.

Book Love  Marriage  and Family in Jewish Law and Tradition

Download or read book Love Marriage and Family in Jewish Law and Tradition written by Michael Kaufman and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Marriage, and Family in the JewishLaw and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language. This comprehensive book looks to inform the reader about all the Jewish laws concerning family, marriage, procreation, and child rearing.

Book The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage

Download or read book The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage written by Maurice Lamm and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading rabbinic authority summarizes the Jewish view of marriage and explores the customs, practices, and symbols of the traditional wedding ceremony. Jewish law is also applied to such topics as premarital sex, homosexuality, and intermarriage.

Book The Marriage Plot

Download or read book The Marriage Plot written by Naomi Seidman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrace of "the love religion" was always partial. In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman considers the evolution of Jewish love and marriage though the literature that provided Jews with a sentimental education, highlighting a persistent ambivalence in the Jewish adoption of European romantic ideologies. Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature tempered romantic love with the claims of family and community, and treated the rules of gender complementarity as comedic fodder. Twentieth-century Jewish writers turned back to tradition, finding pleasures in matchmaking, intergenerational ties, and sexual segregation. In the modern Jewish voices of Sigmund Freud, Erica Jong, Philip Roth, and Tony Kushner, the Jewish heretical challenge to the European romantic sublime has become the central sexual ideology of our time.

Book Strangers and Cousins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leah Hager Cohen
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 0698409647
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Strangers and Cousins written by Leah Hager Cohen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of Christian Science Monitor's BEST FICTION OF 2019 "Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I've read in years." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Serious yet joyous comedy, reminiscent of the Pultizer-winning Less" - Out Magazine A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: an entertaining story about family, culture, memory, and community. In the seemingly idyllic town of Rundle Junction, Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter Clem. A marriage ceremony at their beloved, rambling home should be the happiest of occasions, but Walter and Bennie have a secret. A new community has moved to Rundle Junction, threatening the social order and forcing Bennie and Walter to confront uncomfortable truths about the lengths they would go to to maintain harmony. Meanwhile, Aunt Glad, the oldest member of the family, arrives for the wedding plagued by long-buried memories of a scarring event that occurred when she was a girl in Rundle Junction. As she uncovers details about her role in this event, the family begins to realize that Clem's wedding may not be exactly what it seemed. Clever, passionate, artistic Clem has her own agenda. What she doesn't know is that by the end, everyone will have roles to play in this richly imagined ceremony of familial connection-a brood of quirky relatives, effervescent college friends, ghosts emerging from the past, a determined little mouse, and even the very group of new neighbors whose presence has shaken Rundle Junction to its core. With Strangers and Cousins, Leah Hager Cohen delivers a story of pageantry and performance, hopefulness and growth, and introduces a winsome, unforgettable cast of characters whose lives are forever changed by events that unfold and reverberate across generations.

Book The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage

Download or read book The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage written by Maurice Lamm and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the traditions and laws of the Bible as his base, Rabbi Lamm portrays the great effort Judaism has expended in creating and maintaining the institution of marriage. He shows how indispensable it is to society as a whole and to the Jewish community in particular. He summarizes the traditional views of marriage and explores the outward symbols, practices, and customs of the traditional wedding ceremony, explaining their significance. At the same time, he breaks clarifies and explores Jewish law to such topics as premarital sex, homosexuality, and mixed marriages.

Book Will Jew Marry Me

Download or read book Will Jew Marry Me written by Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You graduated from a great school, you have a rewarding career, and your family is warm and caring. So why are you--like so many other young Jewish men and women in their twenties and thirties--having trouble in your quest for a successful and committed relationship? In Will Jew Marry Me? Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff has collected his thoughts, ideas, experiences, and stories from his many years of working with Jewish singles. The book is full of valuable, practical advice for young Jewish men and women who want to go from single to married. It offers information and guidance on topics such as these: ¢¢Reasons to get married ¢¢Questions for your first date ¢¢Red flags in dating ¢¢How to know when you've found your soul mate ¢¢Building a true love relationship ¢¢How to have a really good fight ¢¢The laws and customs of a Jewish wedding ¢¢What to expect from your first year of marriage Will Jew Marry Me? is your guide to achieving dating, relationship, love, and marriage success.

Book Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State

Download or read book Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State written by Susan M. Weiss and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at how rabbinical courts control Israeli marriage and divorce

Book Love  Sex  and Marriage

Download or read book Love Sex and Marriage written by Roland Bertram Gittelsohn and published by Urj Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbooks, with a Jewish viewpoint, on all aspects of male- female relationships from dating to love, sex, marriage, and divorce.

Book The New Jewish Wedding

Download or read book The New Jewish Wedding written by Anita Diamant and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1985 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete, authoritative, and indispensable, The New Jewish Wedding provides the couple with options--some new, some old--to create a wedding combining spiritual meaning and joyous celebration. Step-by-step, Diamant guides readers through planning the cermony and the party that follows--from finding a rabbi and wording the invitations to hiring a caterer.

Book Love   Tradition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Egon Mayer
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-11-11
  • ISBN : 1489960864
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Love Tradition written by Egon Mayer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Wedding Now

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anita Diamant
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 1501153943
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Jewish Wedding Now written by Anita Diamant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now completely revised, this definitive guide provides a wealth of options for creating a Jewish wedding--whether totally traditional or cutting-edge contemporary--that combines spiritual meaning and joyous celebration.

Book Interfaith Families

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Kaplan
  • Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2005-03-01
  • ISBN : 1596271523
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Interfaith Families written by Jane Kaplan and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the number of Jewish-Christian marriages in America continue to rise, couples find themselves searching for ways to reconcile love and religion. Even when each partner has no particular religious life, they are confronted with related conflicts. Should children be raised in one faith and not the other? Who decides which holidays to celebrate and how? How can couples deal with extended family members who may not understand or accept their interfaith marriage? Readers will find and array of reactions and approaches as the couples profiled in this book describe how they tacked these topics. Each personal narrative offers fresh insight into interfaith families by giving examples of the successes and failures, struggles and triumphs of everyday situations and major life decisions.

Book One Couple Two Faiths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marion Usher
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-12
  • ISBN : 9781624291487
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book One Couple Two Faiths written by Marion Usher and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Chrismukkah

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samira K. Mehta
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2018-03-13
  • ISBN : 1469636379
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Beyond Chrismukkah written by Samira K. Mehta and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation's religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith homes; religious leaders; and the social and cultural milieu surrounding mixed marriages among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Mehta's eye-opening look at the portrayal of interfaith families across American culture since the mid-twentieth century ranges from popular TV shows, holiday cards, and humorous guides to "Chrismukkah" to children's books, young adult fiction, and religious and secular advice manuals. Mehta argues that the emergence of multiculturalism helped generate new terms by which interfaith families felt empowered to shape their lived religious practices in ways and degrees previously unknown. They began to intertwine their religious identities without compromising their social standing. This rich portrait of families living diverse religions together at home advances the understanding of how religion functions in American society today.

Book The River  the Kettle  and the Bird

Download or read book The River the Kettle and the Bird written by Aharon Feldman and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Torah concepts provide insight into dealing with problem areas of married life. A warm, profound guide for b'nei Torah.

Book JewAsian

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Kiyong Kim
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2016-07-01
  • ISBN : 0803285655
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book JewAsian written by Helen Kiyong Kim and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of intersecting racial, ethnic, and religious identities among couples where one partner is Jewish American and the other is Asian American"--