Download or read book The Pigskin Rabbi written by Willard Manus and published by Lycabettus Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback release of the hilarious, outrageous novel about a young rabbi who becomes an NFL superstar.
Download or read book The Pigskin Rabbi written by Willard Manus and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A football-playing rabbi is hired by a New York team, becomes a famous star and before he knows it, everyone around him is converting to Judaism. Plays are called in Yiddish, teammates don yarmulkes and one even undergoes circumcision.
Download or read book American Rabbis Second Edition written by David J. Zucker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a broad-brush approach describing the realities of life in the American rabbinate. Factual portrayals are supplemented by examples drawn from fiction—primarily novels and short stories. Chapters include: ♣Rabbinic Training ♣Congregational Rabbis and Their Communities ♣Congregants’ Views of Their Rabbis ♣Women Rabbis [also including examples from TV and Cinema] ♣Assimilation, Intermarriage, Patrilineality, and Human Sexuality ♣God, Israel, and Tradition This book draws upon sociological data, including the recent Pew Research Center survey on Jewish life in America, and presents a contemporary view of rabbis and their communities. The realities of the American rabbinate are then compared/contrasted with the ways fiction writers present their understanding of rabbinic life. The book explores illustrations from two hundred novels, short stories, and TV/cinema; representing well over 135 authors. From the first real-life women rabbis in the early 1970s to today’s statistics of close to 1,600 women rabbis worldwide, major changes have taken place. Women rabbis are transforming the face of Judaism. For example, this newly revised second edition of American Rabbis: Facts and Fiction reflects a fivefold increase in terms of examples of fictional women rabbis, from when the book was first published in 1998. There is new and expanded material on some of the challenges in the twenty-first century, women rabbis, human sexuality/LGBTQ matters, trans/post/non-denominational seminaries, and community-based rabbis.
Download or read book Black Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction written by Adam Meyer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including 410 entries-drawn from over 100 years of novels, short stories, plays, and children's and young adult literature-this bibliography demonstrates both the extent and the richness of the fiction which has been written about Black-Jewish relations in America, thus enhancing our view of American ethnic literature as a whole.
Download or read book Mott the Hoople written by Willard Manus and published by Lycabettus Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jewish Traditions written by Ronald L. Eisenberg and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an encyclopedic reference for anyone who wants information about all things Jewish, Eisenberg distills an immense amount of material from classic and contemporary sources into a single volume.
Download or read book B nai B rith National Jewish Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish American Literature written by Rosalind Reisner and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish American literature covers a broad range of genres and literary works. Some of the United States' most compelling literature centers on the American Jewish experience; some of the most acclaimed authors write from the heart of their experience as Jewish Americans. This ground-breaking work is intended to guide readers and those who advise readers in selecting fiction and nonfiction books that match specific reading interests. It is the first readers' advisory guide to Jewish American literature. Like other titles in the Genreflecting Advisory Series, the book organizes titles by genre—mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, stories of romance, and literary fiction. In addition, there are chapters on holocaust literature and on biography/autobiography. More than 700 titles are categorized and described. Each chapter is further organized by subgenre and theme. Award-winning titles are noted, as are books that appeal to young adult readers and titles appropriate for book clubs and reading discussions. In addition, the author presents guidelines for building and maintaining a collection of Jewish literature, tips for advising readers, and lists of further resources for exploring the genre; making this a thorough and practical resource. Young adult and adult - Grades 9 and up.
Download or read book Pigskin written by Robert W. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the National Football League is now a mammoth billion-dollar enterprise, it was certainly born into more humble circumstances. Indeed, it began in 1920 in an automobile showroom in Canton, Ohio, when a car dealer called together some owners of teams, mostly in the Midwest, to form a league. Unlike the lavish boardrooms in which NFL owners meet today, on this occasion the owners sat on the running boards of cars in the showroom and drank beer from buckets. A membership fee of $100 was set, but no one came up with any money. (As one of those present, George Halas, the legendary owner of the Chicago Bears, said, "I doubt that there was a hundred bucks in the room.") From such modest beginnings, pro football became far and away the most popular spectator sport in America. In Pigskin, Robert W. Peterson presents a lively and informative overview of the early years of pro football--from the late 1880s to the beginning of the television era. Peterson describes the colorful beginnings of the pro game and its outstanding teams (the Green Bay Packers, the New York Giants, the Chicago Bears, the Baltimore Colts), and the great games they played. Profiles of the most famous players of the era--including Pudge Heffelfinger (the first certifiable professional), Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, and Fritz Pollard (the NFL's first black star)--bring the history of the game to life. Peterson also takes us back to the roots of the pro game, showing how professionalism began when some stars for Yale, Harvard, and Princeton took money--under the table, of course--for their services to alma mater. By 1895, the money makers--still unacknowledged--had moved to amateur athletic associations in western Pennsylvania and subsequently into Ohio. After the NFL formed in 1920, pro football's popularity grew gradually but steadily. It burst into national prominence with the Bears-Redskins championship game of 1940. As one sportswriter put it: "The weather was perfect. So were the Bears." The final score was 73-0. Peterson shows how, after World War II, the newly-created All America Football Conference challenged the NFL. Though dominated by a gritty Cleveland team, the AAFC was never viewed by NFL teams as much of a threat. That is, not until 1950 when the two leagues merged, bringing about the Cleveland Browns-Philadelphia Eagles game in which the Browns buried the Eagles 35-10. An elegy to a time when, for many players, the game was at least as important as the money it brought them (which wasn't much), Pigskin takes readers up to the 1958 championship game when the Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants in overtime. By that time, the great popularity of the game had moved from newspapers and radio to television, and pro football had finally arrived as a major sport.
Download or read book Pigskin written by Robert Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today professional football is America's leading spectator sport, largely because of television. Before the late 1950s, it was a distinctly minor sport.
Download or read book This Way to Paradise written by Willard Manus and published by Lycabettus Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Make It Short Rabbi written by Rabbi Nathan M. Landman and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Nathan M. Landman is a retired U.S. Air Force Chaplain with extensive experience as a teacher of Judaism. The present volume is a distillation of his commentaries on the weekly Jewish Sabbath selections from the Torah and the Prophetical writings from the Jewish Bible designed to stimulate study and discussion as a spur to serious reflection on the spiritual heritage of Judaism. Rabbi Landman and his wife, Libby, live in North Andover, Massachusetts. Paul Krenitsky is a retired electrical engineer whose hobby is photography. The hobby has been a lifetime pursuit in locations all over the USA and more than 20 other countries. He is currently a member of the Lowell Camera Club in Lowell, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Rosemarie, live in retirement in North Andover, Massachusetts. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/RabbiNathanMLandman
Download or read book The Source written by James Albert Michener and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1965 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling novel, Michener sweeps readers back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago, to experience the entire colorful history of the JewsQfrom the lives of the early Hebrews to the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition to present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Rabbi written by Noah Gordon and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1987-08-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a young American rabbi. She was his beautiful Christian wife. Together they tried to forge a life . . . “This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent.”—New York Post First and foremost, Michael Kind was a man—a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a family man devoted to his two children, a passionate man deeply in love with his wife Leslie. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, a minister's daughter. She fell in love with Michael and converted to Judaism to marry him. This is their story, a sweeping drama of love and identity, of compassion and cruelty, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love—let alone marry . . . “A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man, called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience.”—Los Angeles Times
Download or read book The Ark written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
