A practical guide to Jewish practice and ritual offers advice on beliefs, customs, synagogue services, prayers, holidays, weddings, circumcisions, dietary laws, and midrashim.

Product Description: Each title in the Religions of the World series explores the main beliefs, practices, and places of worship of a major world religion. Learn more about the history, religious symbols, and special events of the Judaic religion in Judaism.

Product Description: This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition...read more

Product Description: The history of Jews and Judaism is the history of a people, their unique religious covenant, and a struggle understanding the supernatural and how it fits in everyday life. Jewish religious experience can be based on questioning and discussion (the Torah and Talmud), or it can be based on the mystical wonder of the Kabbalah (the Zohar)...read more

Product Description: Idiot's Guides: Judaism is written by an accomplished Rabbi and teacher for both a non-Jewish person, as well as any Jewish person who wishes to learn more. The book offers a thorough examination and covers the five books of Moses, Jewish law, history, and important Jewish scholars...read more

Product Description: This book is a collection of intriguing insights relating to Jewish law and tradition. Thomas Furst articulates an original approach to fundamental questions and teachings in Judaism, including the hidden essence of Shabbat, the striking significance of the Seder night, marital harmony, the immense importance of the mitzvah of inviting guests, the overriding importance of Israel, as well as other topics of contemporary relevance...read more

This revised text includes new chapters on tumour biology; molecular genetics; gene therapy; massive facial trauma with plating; medical and surgical management of vestibular disorders; and paediatric sleep apnea. All chapters from the previous edition have been updated with peer review by the editor. A new section focusing on paediatric problems has been added. A self-assessment study guide with multiple choice questions is also available.

An ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life, this book surveys the nature and development of Judaism, as well as outlining the basics of practical Judaism - its festivals, prayers, customs, and various sects. Modern concerns and debates of the Jewish people are also addressed, such as the impact of the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, the status of women, and medical and commercial ethics. This book is aimed at those who want to find out more about a people who are familiar, yet retain a certain mystique.

Product Description: Compelling account of Strauss’s mature Maimonidean writings. Leo Strauss (1899–1973), one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century, was an astute interpreter of Maimonides’s medieval masterpiece, The Guide of the Perplexed...read more

How evil grows in the heart of a child is made flesh in a taut psychological thriller from psychiatrist/author Charles Atkins An out-of-control teenager attacks her mother in an emergency room. While upstairs, a nurse is stabbed to death on an inpatient psychiatric unit. The murder suspect, a seventeen year-old-boy with schizophrenia becomes catatonic. Enter Dr. Molly Katz, a senior psychiatric resident and mother of two who, in an attempt to understand how she missed murder in the mind of her patient, gets drawn into the dark world of kids gone bad--really bad. Through Molly's eyes we track the steps of a killer from the streets and suburbs of Boston to the wards of a hospital for the criminally insane. As Molly struggles to free a boy from psychosis and the threat of prison, the killer's thirst for blood grows and his eyes turn to Molly and her children. It's nature versus nurture at its wildest as we face the ultimate question: Is evil learned or can a child be born without a soul?

Product Description: One of the oldest monotheistic religions known to humankind, Judaism has withstood the tests of time. So what exactly are the tenets of this ancient faith that have been passed down over the millennia, and how do they apply to our lives in the 21st century? The Basic Beliefs of Judaism gives an updated overview of the belief system on which the Jewish faith is based...read more

The founder and leader of the Jewish Renewal movement offers teachings and stories from many traditions to enrich one's spiritual experience in everyday practices.

Product Description: From the early history of Judaism to the festivals celebrated today, World Faiths: Judaism is the definitive guide to the world's oldest monotheistic religion. All of the significant events, including the destruction of the Temple and the Diaspora, are vividly recounted...read more

Product Description: Over four decades ago, the pre-eminent Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel, warned of a "second Holocaust" - a spiritual genocide against Judaism that American Jews were perpetrating on themselves. By engaging in assimilation and secularization, he argued, Jews were losing their religious identity and, through it, their identity as a people...read more

Product Description: Exploring the wisdom of the great sages of Lithuania, The Legacy presents a moral and spiritual vision for the Jewish people. Providing a glimpse into the world of these sages, their own teachers' rabbis, the authors outline the ideas and deeds, the values and ethics by which Jews should live...read more