Download or read book Portrait of an American Rabbi in His Own Words written by Rabbi Lance J. Sussman Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In short, I believe, a little bit of religion is a good thing whether or not you fully embrace the idea of God. I believe that Judaism should accept this approach and help its adherents translate their deep, inherent religious needs with the symbols and practices of our ancient tradition. Judaism understands that not only does it have to adapt as part of its cultural dance, but it also has to choose and to create in order to complete its mission: to help modern Jews, the children of Spinoza, and the disciples of Einstein, to stay on course, to see the poetry written into the cosmos, and to help one another on the road to contentment with kindness, with concern and with love. Every once in a while, somebody comes to me and says: “Rabbi, I’m so glad I’m Jewish.” “Rabbi, I’m lucky. I have what I need. I have what I want.” And I smile and count my blessings, too.
Download or read book Portrait of an American Rabbi written by Rabbi Lance J Sussman, PH D and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In short, I believe, a little bit of religion is a good thing whether or not you fully embrace the idea of God. I believe that Judaism should accept this approach and help its adherents translate their deep, inherent religious needs with the symbols and practices of our ancient tradition. Judaism understands that not only does it have to adapt as part of its cultural dance, but it also has to choose and to create in order to complete its mission: to help modern Jews, the children of Spinoza, and the disciples of Einstein, to stay on course, to see the poetry written into the cosmos, and to help one another on the road to contentment with kindness, with concern and with love. Every once in a while, somebody comes to me and says: "Rabbi, I'm so glad I'm Jewish." "Rabbi, I'm lucky. I have what I need. I have what I want." And I smile and count my blessings, too.
Download or read book PORTRAIT OF A REFORM RABBI CONTINUITY AND CHANGE written by Rabbi Lance J. Sussman Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a Jew because I believe that Judaism understands that between mercy and justice there is a path of righteousness. I am a Jew because I believe the “saving of a life” is an urgent mitzvah. I am a Jew because I believe Judaism believes that education is an urgent mitzvah. I am a Jew because Judaism rejects the belief that it is superior to other traditions and makes its claim on me only because it is already mine. I am a Jew because in Judaism all of God’s children are equally God’s children and every life is sacred. I am a Jew because Judaism believes that existence is not an accident and has meaning. I am a Jew because Judaism recognizes holiness in everything beautiful, kind, and just in this world. I am a Jew because Judaism is my spiritual home, and from my home, I can share in the beauty and delights of all creation. I am a Jew because Judaism believes in personal responsibility, forgiveness, and hope. I am a Jew because Judaism values my humanity above my ethnicity and enables me to become a better person by becoming a better Jew. I am a Jew because Judaism recognizes that the world is not complete and that all of us have deep responsibilities in completing it and thereby complete ourselves as human beings and as Jews. — Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.
Download or read book And They Shall Be My People written by Paul Wilkes and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lucid, compassionate, [and] inspiring” chronicle of an American Rabbi’s struggle to keep the faith of his congregation (Chicago Tribune). Journalist Paul Wilkes spent a year with Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Congregation Beth Israel in Worcester, Massachusetts. He silently observed the Rabbi’s life and work, got to know his congregation, and listened in as he performed the myriad tasks both spiritual and practical that occupy a Rabbi’s long day. Wilkes quickly learned that Rabbi Rosembaum is an extraordinary individual—a spiritual leader deeply committed to his congregation, a Jewish scholar steeped in ancient tradition, and an American man too familiar with the temptations of secular society. Wilkes watched as Rabbi Rosenbaum worked—with unyielding confidence and nearly constant frustration—to draw his conservative congregation into more than just intermittent observance. This fascinating, thought-provoking book is at once an intimate portrait of a year in a rabbi’s life and a vivid account of the state of American Judaism today.
Download or read book Hyman G Enelow written by Robert E. Goldburg and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portraits of Jewish American Heroes written by Malka Drucker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews socially as well as spiritually. Here are profiles of twenty-one individuals who have enriched America and the lives of Americans through their achievements in such areas as science, sports, film making, and civil rights. An inspiring journey through more than two centuries of American Jewish history.
Download or read book Portrait of a Rabbi written by Samuel M. Silver and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remnant of Israel written by Marc Angel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Rabbi written by Steven T. Katz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 11 original essays intended to complement a coincident anthology of Agus' (1911-86) writings. They consider him as a student of modern Jewish philosophy and of medieval Jewish philosophy and mysticism, and as a pulpit rebel. Other perspectives include the Jewish-Christian dialogue, his ideology of American Judaism, the conservative movement, and Jewish law as standards. Also includes a personal portrait. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Milton Steinberg written by Simon Noveck and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating American Reform Judaism written by Sefton D. Temkin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), founder of the major institutions of Reform Judaism in America, was a man of his time—a pioneer in a pioneer’s world. When he came to America from his childhood Bohemia in 1846, he found fewer than 50,000 Jews and only two ordained rabbis. With his sense of mission and tireless energy, he set himself to tailoring the vehicle of Reform Judaism to meet the needs of the growing Jewish community. Wise strove for unity among American Jews, and for a college to train rabbis to serve them. The establishment of Hebrew Union College (1875) was the crowning achievement of his life. His quest for unity also led him to draw up an American Jewish prayer-book, Minhag America, to found the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and to edit two weeklies; their editorials, breathing fire and energy, were no less important in his quest for leadership. Here as elsewhere, it was his persistence that won him the war where his impetuosity lost him many battles. Professor Temkin’s writing captures the vigour of Wise’s personality and the politics and concerns of contemporary Jewish life and leadership in America. Based primarily on material in the American Jewish Archives of the Hebrew Union College, this biography is a lively portrait of a rabbi whose singular efforts in many fields made him a pivotal figure in the naturalization of the Jew and Judaism in the New World. The book was first published in hardback in 1992 under the title Isaac Mayer Wise: Shaping American Judaism.
Download or read book Rabbi Outcast written by Jack Ross and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal figure in American anti-Zionism.
Download or read book Max Lilienthal American Rabbi written by Max Lilienthal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Max Lilienthal, American Rabbi: Life and Writings This volume has been prepared as a tribute of affection and admiration to the memory of my never to-be-forgotten teacher and predecessor in office. Jew in religion, American in nationality, Max Lilien thal championed throughout his life the causes of Jewish idealism and American liberty. Therefore do we recall with reverent gratitude the fine service of this great American rabbi on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Unfailing Light Memoirs of an American Rabbi With an Introduction and Notes by the Editor i e J M D With Plates Including Portraits written by Bernard DRACHMAN (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Jew In America written by Arthur Hertzberg and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I became an American by refusing to assimilate, writes Arthur Hertzberg in this long-awaited memoir. Throughout his life this world-renowned rabbi, activist, author, historian, public servant, and confidante to the powerful has advocated that a true Jew is not an ethnic Jew who makes central his support for Israel or his fight against anti-Semitism, but rather a person deeply tied to the religion and its principles. Hertzberg traces his own self-discovery, confronting the choices he has made and offering a history of American Jews and their struggle for identity. Undaunted by controversy, Hertzberg has been the moral conscience of American Jews, taking a stand on all the great issues of our time, from the creation of Israel through the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam War and the highly fractious world of Jews today both here and abroad. Hertzberg is not willing to cede the great tradition either to religious fundamentalists or to the completely secularized. His life is a window onto the forces that have buffeted and strengthened Jews in our times, and his compelling story is an important portrait of the history and culture of the twentieth century, including his dealings with such luminaries as Golda Meir, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry Kissinger. This book reflects the richness of the extraordinarily active life of a man of deep knowledge and integrity. Learned in many areas, genuinely interested in other religions, Hertzberg expresses his own faith with a passion and honesty that give his story a singular strength. Written in a clear, engaging style, A Jew in America is a triumph of the human spirit.
Download or read book Jews and the American Religious Landscape written by Uzi Rebhun and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews and the American Religious Landscape explores major complementary facets of American Judaism and Jewish life through a comprehensive analysis of contemporary demographic and sociological data. Focusing on the most important aspects of social development—geographic location, socioeconomic stratification, family dynamics, group identification, and political orientation—the volume adds empirical value to questions concerning the strengths of Jews as a religious and cultural group in America and the strategies they have developed to integrate successfully into a Christian society. With advanced analyses of data gathered by the Pew Research Center, Jews and the American Religious Landscape shows that Jews, like other religious and ethnic minorities, strongly identify with their religion and culture. Yet their particular religiosity, along with such factors as population dispersion, professional networks, and education, have created different outcomes in various contexts. Living under the influence of a Christian majority and a liberal political system has also cultivated a distinct ethos of solidarity and egalitarianism, enabling Judaism to absorb new patterns in ways that mirror its integration into American life. Rich in information thoughtfully construed, this book presents a remarkable portrait of what it means to be an American Jew today.
Download or read book The American Jew written by Oscar Isaiah Janowsky and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.
