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Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0253008026
Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness
Author : Barbara Dowd Wright
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Jewish renewal
ISBN : 0595361072
Author : Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1442213299
This powerful memoir chronicles the life of one of America’s most celebrated rabbis—Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, or “Reb Zalman” as he is fondly known to friends and followers. The book traces his life from a youth in the shadow of the Nazis through the tumultuous 1960s in America to his position as a renowned religious leader today. Often controversial for his attraction to cultural mavericks and religious rebels, Reb Zalman’s colorful lifetime includes a striking cast of characters across faith traditions, including Timothy Leary, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, and more. The book traces Reb Zalman’s work creating the vibrant Jewish Renewal movement that emphasizes spiritual experience and continues to touch Jews around the world today. Reb Zalman often illustrates his talks with anecdotes from his life, and My Life in Jewish Renewal brings together the life story of this beloved leader for the first time. Reb Zalman often illustrates his talks with stories from his life, and My Life in Jewish Renewal brings together the complete life story of this beloved leader for the first time.
Author : Michael Lerner
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Lerner maintains that there are two voices in the Torah that have contended with each other throughout Jewish history: the voice of accumulated pain and cruelty that is passed from generation to generation and that masquerades as a patriarchal god, and the voice of God, whose massage of healing and compassion insists the world can be fundamentally transformed. Neoconservatives and some right-wing Israelis have used the Holocaust to justify a Judaism that is cynically "realistic" and demeaning of non-Jews. But that tendency to do unto others what was done to us can be overcome, Lerner says, and Jewish renewal attunes us to the voice of God and strengthens our ability to recognize the image of the divine in every human being.
Author : Sid Schwarz
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1580231853
Like countless others of their generation, many contemporary American Jews have abandoned the religion of their birth to search for a spiritual home in other traditions.
Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691202516
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies—an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who remain active struggle to reconcile their hallowed traditions with new perspectives—from feminism and the LGBTQ movement to "do-it-yourself religion" and personally defined spirituality. Taking a fresh look at American Judaism today, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of various orientations practice their religion in this radically altered landscape. Which observances still resonate, and which ones have been given new meaning? What options are available for seekers or those dissatisfied with conventional forms of Judaism? And how are synagogues responding? Offering new and often-surprising answers to these questions, Wertheimer reveals an American Jewish landscape that combines rash disruption and creative reinvention, religious illiteracy and dynamic experimentation.
Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1611681839
A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
Author : Rabbi Arthur Segal
Publisher : Rabbi Arthur Segal
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781439223390
The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Path of Transformation for the Modern Jew contains millennia of sage advice in an easy-to-read step-by-step process for recapturing your Jewish spirituality
Author : Jerome A. Chanes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031249909
This book explores the state of the American Jewish world in the early 21st century, after decades of accelerating change that has transformed it and all other religious groups in the United States. It reveals a community in an unparalleled state of flux grappling with a society in which religious identity is more and more considered an individual choice, rather than an inheritance, and where fewer adults feel impelled to identify with any religious tradition at all. In chapters written by leading experts, the book examines the community’s evolving demographics, the direction of the principal denominational movements, contemporary religious trends, interactions with other American religious communities and engagements in the country’s secular politics. This text uniquely covers all these aspects of Judaism in America making it appealing to students and researchers in such fields as the sociology of religion, Judaism, and American history.
Author : Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 023113729X
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.