Judaism

The Enlightenment and the Jewish Question
The Jewish Writings
by Hannah Arendt
Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people

Letter 1
The Christian and the Pharisee: Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven
by R. T. Kendall, Rabbi David Rosen
Through a unique and rare exchange of letters, an evangelical preacher, R. T. Kendall, and a senior Jewish rabbi, David Rosen, openly discuss and debate their views on heaven and how we get there.

Judaism
by Israel Abrahams, M.A.
The aim of this little book is to present in brief outline some of the leading conceptions of the religion familiar since the Christian Era under the name Judaism. The word 'Judaism' occurs for the first time at about 100 B.C., in the Graeco-Jewish

The Man Who Dared to Dream
Overcoming Life's Disappointments
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don't turn out as we had hoped - that is, how we can overcome life's disappointments.

His Voice
The New Rabbi
by Stephen Fried
The center of this compelling chronicle is Har Zion Temple on Philadelphia's Main Line, which for the last seventy-five years has been one of the largest and most influential congregations in America.

Daily Prayer
Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration
by Naomi Levy
Daily prayer is the hardest form of prayer. It's natural to turn to God when things go wrong-when you are in pain or when you are frightened or depressed. It's easy to turn to God in times of joy-at a birth or a wedding, or on a holiday.

Genesis, Part 5
Unsettled; An Anthropology of the Jews
by Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D.
Now consider the saga on its merits for a moment, as if there were no archeology or history and the Bible did in fact reveal a word-for-word truth. According to Torah, the first Jew, Abraham, was a wandering Aramean, a tribal chieftain who rebelled

Genesis, Part 3
Unsettled; An Anthropology of the Jews
by Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D.
Details are important, and we will have more of them, but over and above them there are patterns. Historians usually say that there are no laws of history. But there are certainly regularities and consistencies, and some anthropologists think of them

Genesis
Unsettled; An Anthropology of the Jews
by Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D.
Whatever else we may or may not know about the Jews, it is likely that in their earliest generations as an identifiable people, they were already telling this story. By the time they had really become Jews they had written it down, and the pale

Who Are the Jews, Part 3
Unsettled; An Anthropology of the Jews
by Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D.
At seventeen, in the throes of the sixties, I may have thought that both sectarianism and God were on the way out, but at thirty I knew better. At thirty-two, when my first child was born, I was ready for some kind of Jewish reawakening.

Who Are the Jews, Part 2
Unsettled; An Anthropology of the Jews
by Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D.
Greek culture was more tempting than Babylon's, and the spectrum of adaptations from isolation to apostasy set the precedent for all future Jewish cultural encounters. But Greek anti-Semitism set limits on assimilation, and rabbinical Judaism was born.

Who Are the Jews and Why Are They Still Here?
Unsettled; An Anthropology of the Jews
by Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D.
Other people have suffered greatly; others have survived. But the Jews seem to garner a kind of attention focused on no other people. They may be unique in their accomplishments and so have often been targets of envy.

The Blessing of Acceptance: Discovering Your Unique and Ordinary Child
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
by Wendy Mogel, Ph.D.
I recently read a third-grade school newsletter that used the word special five times on two pages. The Thanksgiving Sing was special. So was the Spellathon. The Emerging Artists exhibition was special.

Making Room for Miracles
The Book of Miracles
by Kenneth L. Woodward
A miracle is an unusual or extraordinary event that is in principle perceivable by others, that finds no reasonable explanation in ordinary human abilities or in other known forces that operate in the world of time and space

Scruples
Devil in the Details
by Jennifer Traig
My father and I were in the laundry room and we were having a crisis. It was the strangest thing, but I couldn't stop crying. And there were a few other weird things: I was wearing a yarmulke and a nightgown, for one, and then there were my hands, red

Psychology and Spirituality: The Bridge
Connecting to God
by Rabbi Abner Weiss, Ph.D.
A century of clinical psychology has made therapy a household concept in the Western world. More people than ever before have experienced psychotherapy. More methods for achieving psychological well-being are available.

Paradox. Lost.
The Polio Paradox: Understanding and Treating "Post-Polio Syndrome" and Chronic Fatigue
by Richard L. Bruno, H.D., Ph.D.
In this blueprint for well-being Dr. Richard Bruno describes the cause and treatment of Post-Polio Syndrome. Drawing on his two decades of research, he also explains the remarkable parallels between the polio epidemics, PPS, and today's epidemics

Fall
Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir
by Ari L. Goldman
The best-selling author of The Search for God at Harvard continues his spiritual quest in this heartfelt and poignant account of the year he spent saying kaddish for his father. The day after Ari Goldman celebrated his fiftieth birthday his father died of

The Soul Stretches Out to Contain Itself
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
by Rabbi Alan Lew
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling

The Treasure in the Oven
Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life
by Rabbi Alan Lew
For the past ten years, Rabbi Alan Lew has been teaching his congregation how two ancient traditions - classical Jewish writings and Zen meditation - can shed light on each other in electrifying ways.