Product Description: Judaism and Jewish life reflect a diversity of identity after the past two centuries of modernization. This work examines how the early reformers of the 19th century and their legacy into the 20th century created a livable, liberal Jewish identity that allowed a reinvention of what it meant to be Jewish―a process that continues today...read more

Product Description: Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and institutional movements and change in Jewish history...read more

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Product Description: A Reform High Holy Day Machzor (Prayer Book) for Yom Kippur that features engaging text and graphics for all generations. Full translation and full transliteration, including Torah readings. Evening, Morning, Afternoon, Yizkor, and Neila services.

Product Description: A Machzor, a High Holy Day Prayer Book for Rosh HaShanah with complete translation and transliteration, so that all can be included in the service. Using Reform liturgy with a welcoming flair.

Product Description: A Special edition of Tefilat HaLev, a Reform liturgy Prayer Book. This book was compiled specially for the Bar Mitzvah Celebration of Gabriel Dean Mendelson on Shabbat Matot-Masei, 2015/5775.

Product Description: A Special Siddur for the Bar Mitzvah Celebration of Gabriel Dean Mendelson

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Product Description: A clean, crisp version of this engaging Siddur for Shabbat and Festivals. Many choices for service leaders with engaging text. Prayers include traditional and modern expressions for maximum exclusivity. Includes transliteration and translation for all prayers...read more

Product Description: A clean, crisp NO TRANSLITERATION version of this Siddur for Shabbat and Festivals. This siddur is perfect for students and those not wishing to see or use transliteration. Many choices for service leaders with engaging text. Prayers include traditional and modern expressions for maximum exclusivity...read more

Product Description: A Full Color version of this engaging Siddur for Shabbat and Festivals. Many choices for service leaders, engaging text and graphics. Prayers include traditional and modern expressions for maximum exclusivity. Includes transliteration and translation for all prayers...read more

Product Description: A lovely graphic black & white version of this engaging Siddur for Shabbat and Festivals. Many choices for service leaders, engaging text and graphics. Prayers include traditional and modern expressions for maximum exclusivity. Includes transliteration and translation for all prayers...read more

Product Description: A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religionsSusan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now in an interfaith marriage herself, she is one of the growing number of Americans who are boldly electing to raise children with both faiths, rather than in one religion or the other (or without religion)...read more

Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award. Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America’s most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. Ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1915, he was of the generation of rabbis from east European immigrant backgrounds who moved Reform Judaism away from its classical form toward a renewed appreciation of traditional practices. Freehof himself was less interested in restoring discarded rituals than in demonstrating how the Reform approach to Jewish religious practice was rooted in the Jewish legal tradition (halakhah). Opposed to any attempt to create a code of Reform practice, he nevertheless called for Reform Judaism to turn to the halakhah, not in order to adhere to codified law, but to be guided in ritual and in all areas of life by its values and its ethical insights. For Reform Jews, Jewish law was to offer “guidance, not governance,” and this guidance was to be provided through the writing of responsa, individual rulings based on legal precedent, written by an organized rabbinic authority in response to questions about real-life situations. After World War II, the earlier consensus about what constituted proper observance in a Reform context vanished as the children of east European immigrants flocked to new Reform synagogues in new suburbs, bringing with them a more traditional sensibility. Even before Freehof was named chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Responsa Committee in 1956, his colleagues began turning to him for guidance, especially in the situations Freehof recognized as inevitably arising from living in an open society where the boundaries between what was Jewish and what was not were ambiguous or blurred. Over nearly five decades he answered several thousand inquiries regarding Jewish practice, the plurality of which concerned the tensions Jews experienced in navigating this open society—questions concerning mixed marriage, Jewish status, non-Jewish participation in the synagogue, conversion, and so on—and published several hundred of these in eight volumes of Reform responsa. In her pioneering study, Friedman analyzes Freehof’s responsa on a select number of crucial issues that illustrate the evolution of American Reform Judaism. She also discusses the deeper issues with which the movement struggled, and continues to struggle, in its attempt to meet the ever-changing challenges of the present while preserving both individual autonomy and faithfulness to the Jewish tradition.

Product Description: This book shows how Israel Mattuck was probably the most influential figure in the development of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in the UK and the wider Liberal Jewish movement through his involvement with the World Union for Progressive Judaism, which he chaired from its foundation in 1926 until his death in 1954...read more

Product Description: Shabbat Meditations is a collection of prayers and blessings written by Rabbi Rocky Grossman and compiled with an introduction by Rabbi Tyler Rebik. The prayers are alternatives for each Shabbat that one may have in their life.

Product Description: In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly, while secretly adhering to their Jewish faith...read more

Product Description: Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Judaism, but is often neglected. This volume presents his life and his views on the reform of Judaism in the context of the changes and developments of Judaism in his lifetime...read more

Product Description: List Price: $39.95 - SALE Price 13.95! Written by Rabbi Fred Neulander prior to his murder trials, was originally published in November, 2001 under the nom de plume of Rabbi Adam Plony. This limited 2nd Edition is the only time this book has been available to the public as authored by Rabbi Fred Neulander in paperback and all online formats...read more

Product Description: Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity...read more

Product Description: Reform Judaism has been tested by the spiritual torments and ideological upheavals of the last two centuries. Now, Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us brings into discussion key tenets and opinions that shape current thinking within the faith and introduces ideas for its future development...read more